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Joint visuAAL-GoodBrother Conference on trustworthy video- and audio-based assistive technologies

18-20 June 2024, Alicante, Spain

https://goodbrother.eu/conferences/joint-visuaal-goodbrother-conference/

Paper submission deadline: 10 April 2024

Active and Assisted Living (AAL) technologies and services are a possible solution to address the crucial challenges regarding health and social care resulting from demographic changes and current economic conditions. AAL systems aim to improve quality of life and support independent and healthy living of older and frail people. Cameras and microphones have been applied to diverse AAL solutions, supporting active and healthy ageing, e.g. activity recognition, gait analysis, fall detection and prevention, rehabilitation, social communication, personal assistants, promotion of healthy lifestyles, physiological monitoring, and support to caregivers.

However, cameras and microphones are often perceived as the most intrusive technologies from the viewpoint of the privacy of the monitored individuals. This is due to the richness of the information that these technologies convey and the intimate setting where they may be deployed in. Therefore, solutions able to ensure privacy preservation by context and design as well as to ensure high legal and ethical standards are in high demand.

This conference aims to give forum for contributions presenting and discussing audio-, image- and video-based applications for active assisted living as well as initiatives proposing ethical and privacy-aware solutions.

This conference is organised by the GoodBrother COST Action (CA19121) on Privacy-Aware Audio- and Video-Based Applications for Active and Assisted Living and the visuAAL Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network on Privacy-Aware and Acceptable Video-Based Technologies and Services for Active and Assisted Living. The aim of these projects is to bridge the knowledge gap between users’ requirements and the appropriate and secure use of audio- and video-based AAL technologies to deliver effective and supportive care to older adults managing their health and wellbeing. They seek to increase awareness and understanding of the context-specific ethical, legal, privacy and societal issues necessary to implement visual system across hospital, home, and community settings, in a manner that protects and reassures users; outputs will stimulate the development of a new research perspective for constructively addressing privacy-aware video-based working solutions for assisted living.

Topics

We seek contributions that include, but are not limited to:

• Video- and audio-based assistive technologies:
• Lifelogging and self-monitoring
• Human activity and behaviour recognition
• Personal and daily-life assistance
• Remote monitoring of vital signs
• Gesture recognition
• Fall detection and prevention
• Emotional state recognition
• Food intake monitoring
• Mobility assessment and frailty recognition
• Cognitive and motor rehabilitation•
• User acceptance
• Awareness and understanding of context-specific ethical, legal, privacy and societal issues
• Privacy-aware technologies
• GDPR requirements of AAL solutions
• Responsible research for older people
• Fair systems
• Best practices for interdisciplinary collaborations between law, IT, care and/or sociology

Submission guidelines

Information for authors is available at the conference website. 

Important dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: April 26, 2024
• Camera ready: May 15, 2024
• Conference: 18-20 June, 2024
• 18 June: Presentations by researchers in the visuAAL project
• 19-20 June: Presentations by authors of accepted papers