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===== CALL FOR PAPERS =====
2nd UbiComp Workshop on Mental Health and Well-being: Sensing and
Intervention

To be held at the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and
Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) collocated with the ACM International
Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC)
Maui, Hawaii, USA
September 11-15, 2017

* Workshop homepage: https://ubicomp-mental-health.github.io/
* For any questions, please email: [log in to unmask]

*** Important Dates ***
- Extended deadline for submissions: June 16, 2017
- Decisions to authors: July 1, 2017
- Deadline for camera ready versions: July 8, 2017
- Date of workshop: September 11, 2017

*** Motivation ***
Mental health issues affect a significant portion of the world’s population
and can result in debilitating and life-threatening outcomes. To address
this increasingly pressing healthcare challenge, there is a need to
research novel approaches for early detection and prevention. In
particular, ubiquitous systems can play a central role in revealing and
tracking clinically relevant behaviors, contexts, and symptoms. Further,
such systems can passively detect relapse onset and enable the opportune
delivery of effective intervention strategies.

However, despite their clear potential, the uptake of ubiquitous
technologies into clinical mental healthcare is rare, and a number of
challenges still face the overall efficacy of such technology-based
solutions. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers
interested in identifying, articulating, and addressing such issues and
opportunities. Following the success of last year’s inaugural workshop, we
aim to continue facilitating the UbiComp community in developing a holistic
approach for sensing and intervention in the context of mental health.

*** Topics of Interest ***
We invite submissions in the areas and intersections of mental health,
well-being, ubiquitous computing, and human-centered design, including but
not limited to:

- Design and implementation of computational platforms (e.g., mobile
phones, instrumented homes, etc.) to collect health and well-being data.
- Development of robust behavioral models that can handle data sparsity and
mislabeling issues.
- Integration of multimodal data from different sensor streams for
personalized predictive modeling.
- Automated inference from sensor data of high-level contexts (e.g.,
environmental, social, etc.) indicative of mental health status.
- Design and implementation of feedback (e.g., reports, visualizations,
proactive behavioral interventions, etc.) for both patients and caregivers.
- Development of smartphone based automated behavioral interventions
focusing on mental health and well-being.
- Methods for sustaining user adherence and engagement over long periods of
time.
- Devising privacy-preserving strategies for data collection, analysis, and
management.
- Deployment in low-income communities and countries.
- Identifying ways to better integrate ubiquitous technologies into
existing healthcare infrastructures and government policy.

*** Submission Format ***
We will accept regular (up to 9 pages) and short (up to 5 pages) paper
contributions. All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on
originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation.
Accepted papers will appear in the UbiComp supplemental proceedings and in
the ACM Digital Library. Research papers, case studies, and position papers
are all welcome. In particular, we encourage authors to keep the following
options in mind:
- Works-In-Progress: We explicitly invite submissions of papers that
describe preliminary results or work-in-progress.
- JMIR Special Issue: During submission, authors can specify if they would
like to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming special issue in JMIR
dedicated to the topic of computing and mental health. Authors selected for
inclusion would then be invited to expand their workshop submission to a
full length manuscript of no more than 7,500 words, due in mid-Fall 2017.
Please see our website for more details:
https://ubicomp-mental-health.github.io/#CfP

*** Organizers ***
Saeed Abdullah, Cornell University
Elizabeth Murnane, Cornell University
Mirco Musolesi, University College London
Jakob E. Bardram, Technical University of Denmark
Tanzeem Choudhury, Cornell University

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