GoodBrother Workshop on Privacy aware and acceptable solutions for AAL (PrivAw)

As part of the 15th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference – http://www.petrae.org/

29 June-1 July 2022, Corfu, Greece

https://goodbrother.eu/conferences/privaw2022/

Paper submission deadline: 10 March 2022

One major concern in any development for Active Assisted Living (AAL) lies in the claim for responsible research and the consideration of ethical, legal and social implications of technology development. At a time in which technology developments – fostered by the huge and tremendously fast-evolving innovations through modern information and communication technologies – enter private spheres and come into close contact with individual, private, and intimate activities, it is a mandatory claim that any technology development should be carefully developed and balanced within societal, cultural and individual values, and norms.

The aim of PrivAw is to bridge the knowledge gap between users’ requirements and the appropriate and secure use of AAL technologies to deliver effective and supportive care to older adults managing their health and wellbeing. PrivAw will seek to increase awareness and understanding of the context-specific ethical, legal, privacy and societal issues necessary to implement AAL systems 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 AAL solutions for assisted living.

This workshop is organised by the GoodBrother COST Action (CA19121) on Privacy-Aware Audio- and Video-Based Applications for Active and Assisted Living (https://goodbrother.eu/). The aim of Goodbrother is to increase the awareness on the ethical, legal, and privacy issues associated to audio- and video-based monitoring and to propose privacy-aware working solutions for assisted living, by creating an interdisciplinary community of researchers and industrial partners from different fields (computing, engineering, healthcare, law, sociology) and other stakeholders (users, policy makers, public services), stimulating new research and innovation. Goodbrother will offset the “Big Brother” sense of continuous monitoring by increasing user acceptance, exploiting these new solutions, and improving market reach.

This workshop aims at collecting and discussing AAL solutions, projects and research. We seek contributions that include, but are not limited to:

• Privacy-aware technologies
• Responsible Research for the elderly
• Fair systems
• Legal requirements and privacy issues for data collection and processing in care
• Privacy by Design and by Context
• User acceptance criteria for AAL
• GDPR requirements of AAL solutions
• Best practices for interdisciplinary collaborations between law, IT, care and/or sociology
• Awareness and understanding of context-specific ethical, legal, privacy and societal issues

Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and will appear in the conference proceedings. For the accepted papers, at least one author must register as the presenter by the early registration deadline to be included in the proceedings.

Paper submission timetable:

• Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2022
• Notification of acceptance: April 11, 2022
• Camera ready: April 19, 2022
• Workshop date: To be determined (conference dates are June 29 – July 1, 2022)

More information at https://goodbrother.eu/conferences/privaw2022/.

Francisco (Paco) Flórez-Revuelta

http://www.dtic.ua.es/~florez/

francisco.florez@ua.es

Associate Professor

Department of Computing Technology, Research Group on Domotics and Ambient Intelligence

University of Alicante

Carretera San Vicente s/n, 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante (Spain)

Coordinator of visuAAL Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN. Chair of the GoodBrother COST Action

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