A “tsunami” of aging populations is being anticipated, in many nations around the world, with anticipated increases in health costs to governments and individuals. While there have been tremendous innovations and creative developments in the use of technology for assisted-living, aged care and aging-in-place and for health support, there remain tremendous challenges, in terms of uptake, technology acceptance, and the maturity of the technologies themselves. 

The range of technologies span many different areas, including AI/robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented/Virtual/Extended Reality, wearable and mobile computing, ambient intelligence, to name a few, which are all topics of interest to the pervasive computing community. Also, socio-ethical challenges of the use of such technologies are myriad. 

As far back as 2002, Vince Stanford wrote an article on “Using Pervasive Computing to Deliver Elder Care” in IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine, but it is time to revisit Agetech in the light of pervasive computing developments in the past two decades.

The workshop aims to encourage thinking (and rethinking) of Agetech (technology for the aged and the aging) after decades of developments in pervasive computing, IoT, applied AI, and robotics and related technologies, and to provide a forum for researchers to come together share and discuss developments in the important area of Agetech within the context of pervasive computing. While pervasive computing researchers are encouraged to engage, the nature of the problems are multi-disciplinary. Hence, this workshop aims to provide a vehicle for bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds, approaches and specializations (e.g., computer-human interaction, AI/robotics, ethics, ethnographical studies, aged care, health, transport, and so on) in a key international avenue, but with a focus on pervasive computing as the key concept bringing these technologies together.

Topics to be addressed, include, but are not limited to:

• studies of the use of pervasive computing technologies for aged care

• smart homes for aging at home

• IoT for Agetech applications

• software engineering of pervasive computing systems for Agetech

• socio-ethical issues of smart Agetech

• use of connected robots and IoT for aids and assisted-living

• wearables and mobile devices for Agetech

• extended reality/AR/VR as Agetech

• smart transport for independent living

• aging-in-place technologies

• systems for smart crowdsourcing to support the aged

• smart data management for the aged as Agetech

• smart safe money management systems for the aged

• pervasive computing for health related Agetech

• smart Agetech taking into account gender diversity and neutrality 

• pervasive computing technology to help caregivers