Second International Workshop on
Collaboration Technologies and Systems in Healthcare and Biomedical Fields
(CoHeB 2014)
Call for Papers and Participation
As part of
The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014)
May 19-23, 2014
The Commons Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP
(Pending)
Extended Submission Deadline: January 30, 2014
Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
Collaborative technologies are pervading every field of the modern society, influencing the way we act, work and socially interact. Collaboration technologies and systems in healthcare and in general in biomedical fields create new ways to develop, provide and improve the quality of health services. The potentialities disclosed by collaborative technologies range from education to direct clinical applications (including home monitoring, telerehabilitation, remote surgery, etc.), passing through remote consultation and second opinion, electronic health record and patient’s data sharing, development of social virtual spaces and communities for patients, and many more. Collaborative technologies in healthcare are necessary for the development of telehealth and telemedicine services but can also be used to facilitate both inclusion and participation for disadvantaged categories such as the elderly, the people with disabilities, etc. They cut costs while increasing access and providing convenience. Broadening to the biomedical field, including biomedical research, collaboration technologies are also used in bioinformatics and life sciences.
CoHeB workshop aims at providing a scientific forum for disseminating and discussing the latest advances and research results in the development and/or application of collaboration technologies and systems in healthcare and biomedical fields. The main objective is to bring together researchers, scientists as well as practitioners from academia, industry, government, and research institutions in a multidisciplinary environment where novel ideas and recent achievements can be presented, fostering the creation of new networks and collaborations among ICT researchers and health professionals. The workshop will include a keynote speech, contributed paper sessions and demos, as part of the main CTS2014 Conference. Authors are invited to send their original research works covering aspects related to the following topics:
CoHeB topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
Collaborative e-Health
Pervasive Health Systems and Services
Collaborative Distributed Systems and Sensor Networks in Healthcare
Collaborative Telemedicine and Telehealth Platforms and Applications
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Collaborative Applications
Wearable Health Sensors and Informatics
Clinical Applications using Collaborative Technologies
Evaluation of Healthcare IT Collaborative Platforms
Collaborative Aspects in Remote Clinical Procedures and Surgery
Collaborative Assistive Technologies
Collaborative ICT frameworks for Aging and Disability
Collaborative Human-Machine Interaction
Collaborative Robots and Human-Robot Interaction in Healthcare
Psychological Implications of Collaborative Systems in Healthcare
Collaborative Systems for Medical and Nursing Education & Informatics
Collaborative Serious Games for Healthcare Applications
Collaborative Decision Making and Decision Support Systems
Collaboration in Emergency Health Service
Collaboration in Disaster Recovery from Healthcare Perspective
Design and Development of Methodologies for Collaborative Healthcare IT Systems
Cloud Computing in Healthcare and Biomedical Fields
Big Data Analytics in Healthcare and Biomedicine
Human-Machine Interfaces for Special Needs Persons
Collaborative Systems for Data Mining in Healthcare and Biomedicine
Databases and Data Warehousing in Bioinformatics and Healthcare
Knowledge Management and Discovery for Healthcare
Semantics and Ontologies for Healthcare and Bioinformatics
Interoperable Health Information Exchange
Medical Data Visualization Issues in Collaborative Scenarios
Electronic Health Records and Standards
Privacy and Data Security in Collaborative Healthcare and Biomedicine Environments
Collaborative Software Systems in Healthcare and Medicine
Collaborative Healthcare Management Systems
Health and Medical Collaboratories
Collaborative Healthcare Projects Development
Collaborative Technologies for Health Technology Assessment
PAPER SUBMISSION
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to collaboration technologies and systems in healthcare and biomedical fields. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://cts2014.cisedu.info/home/posters for the posters submission details) will also be accepted for submission. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.
Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via the Workshop submission Web page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coheb2014 . If the submission is for a short paper, a poster paper, or a poster, please indicate that on the manuscript as well.
Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the Workshop link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Extensions of previous researches mandatorily require reference to the previous work. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity, and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. No withdrawal after the acceptance decision is permitted unless there is reasonable cause as determined by the workshop organizers. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop.
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2014 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in major indexing services accordingly.
We are planning a special issue in an international journal for a selected set of the accepted papers. More information on this will be available later.
If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Extended Paper Submissions: ----------------------------- January 30, 2014
Acceptance Notification: ----------------------------------- February 17, 2014
Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ----------- March 10, 2014
Conference Dates: ----------------------------------------- May 19 - 23, 2014
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Danilo Pani
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Cagliari, Italy
Phone: + 39 070 675 5763
Fax: + 39 070-675-5782
Email: danilo.pani@diee.unica.it
Pamela Whitten
Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
University of Georgia, GA, USA
Phone: +1 706-542-5806
Fax: +1 706-
Email: pwhitten@uga.edu
Neale R. Chumbler
College of Public Health
University of Georgia, GA, USA
Phone: +1 706.369.5975
Fax: +1 706.369.5997
Email: chumbler@uga.edu
International Program Committee*:
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members following similar criteria used in CTS 2014.
Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Sameer K. Antani, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, USA
Rung-Ching Chen, Choayang University of Technology, Taiwan
Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Alessia Dessì, University of Cagliari, Italy
Stanley Finkelstein, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, MN, USA
Christoph M. Friedrich, University of Applied Science and Arts Dortmund, Germany
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, CT, USA
Shu-Hui Hung, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
Anastasia Kastania, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Elizabeth Krupinski, University of Arizona , AZ, USA
Mu-Hsing Kuo, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Feipei Lai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
Maurice Mars, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Chaoyi Pang, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
José J. Pazos-arias, University of Vigo, Spain
Y. V. Ramana Reddy, University of West Virginia, WV, USA
Tony Sahama, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia
Saeed Samet, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Liwen Shih, University of Houston-Clear Lake, TX, USA
Irena Spasić, University of Cardiff, U.K.
Venkatesh Srinivasan, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Alex Thomo, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Bert-Jan Van Beijnum, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Ching-seh Wu, Oakland University, MI, USA
James C.N. Yang, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://cts2014.cisedu.info/home or contact one of the Conference's organizers or Co-Chairs.