Call for Participation PervasiveHealth Conference 2008 Tampere, Finland, Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 2008 http://www.pervasivehealth.org After the successful first year of the conference, the Organizing Committee is please to announce the Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. Pervasive healthcare is an emerging research discipline, focusing on the development and application of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness. Pervasive healthcare seeks to respond to pressures towards healthcare system, arising from a number of factors, including the increased incidence of life-style related and chronic diseases, emerging consumerism in healthcare, need for empowering patients and relatives for self-care and management of their health, and need to provide seamless access for health care services, independent of time and place. This year the conference accepted a total of 58 papers out of 107 submissions divided between full and short papers that will be presented in seven oral and two posters sessions. Additionally the conference will include one industrial panel, two keynote speakers and three workshops as follows: Keynote Speakers: The application of ICT in Healthcare: Benefits, Challenges and further Opportunities Loukianos Gatzoulis ICT for Health Unit of the European Commission Is 'Pervasive Healthcare' old wine on a new bottle - or is it a real, but emerging, research discipline? Jakob E. Bardram IT University of Copenhagen Workshops: * Ambient Technologies for Diagnosing and Monitoring Chronic Patients * Connectivity, Mobility and Patients' Comfort (CMPC): * First International Workshop on MObile and DIstributed approaches in Emergency Scenarios Organizing Committee: General Chair: Niilo Saranummi Technical Research Centre of Finland Technical Program Co-Chairs: Ilkka Korhonen Technical Research Centre of Finland Howard Wactlar Carnegie Mellon University, USA Local Chair: Johan Plomp Technical Research Centre of Finland Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy Oscar Mayora-Ibarra CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy Upkar Varshney Georgia State University, USA Publicity Chair: Kay Connelly Indiana University, USA Workshops Chair: Muttukrishnan, Rajarajan London City University, UK Financial Management: Karen Decker ICST Conference Coordinator: Zsuzsa Lanyi-Kaszab ICST Publications Chair: Dasun Weerasinghe London City University, UK -- mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm { Kay Connelly Lindley Hall 215 } { Computer Science Department 150 S. Woodlawn Ave } { Indiana University Bloomington, IN } { [log in to unmask] 47405-7104 } { phone:812/855-0739 fax: 812/855-4829 } mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------