WISHWell 2009

1st International Workshop on Intelligent Environments

Supporting Healthcare and Well-being (WISHWell’09)

Barcelona, Spain. 19^th July 2009

Co-Chairs

John O’Donoghue

University College Cork

Republic of Ireland

Juan Carlos Augusto

University of Ulster

United Kingdom

Program Committee

Elske Ammenwerth (Austria)

Toshiyo Tamura (Japan)

Markus Helfert (Ireland)

Alex Mihailidis (Canada)

Rune Fensli (Norway)

Paul McCullagh (UK)

Yousef Jasemian (Denmark)

Joe Gallagher (Ireland)

Geoff West (Australia)

Giacomo Cabri (Italy)

Mark Hawley (UK)

Jean Roberts (UK)

Important Dates:

May 11^th (firm):

deadline first submission

8^th of June:

notifications to authors

June 19^th (firm):

final version submitted

Organization:

This event will be co-located with the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments.

Background and Goals:  

The workshop will bring together researchers from both industry and academia from the various disciplines to contribute to this the inaugural year of the International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-Being (WISHWell 2009). Healthcare environments (within the hospital and the home) are extremely complex and challenging to manage from an IT and IS perspective, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource constraints. Pervasive healthcare technologies seek to respond to a variety of these pressures by integrating them within existing health care services. It is essential that intelligent pervasive healthcare solutions are developed and correctly integrated to assist health care professionals in delivering high levels of patient care. It is equally important that these pervasive solutions are used to empower patients and relatives for self-care and management of their health to provide seamless access for health care services.

Areas of interest: include, but are not limited to, the following:

Submission Details: Authors wishing to participate as speakers in this event should:

1)  Format their papers following the main conference guidelines:

http://intelligentenvironments.org/conferences/ie09/submition_instructions