The proposed workshop will be multi-disciplinary, focusing on innovations in information processing and system aspects of health care and performance. The topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to Information processing aspects of human health and performance:
1. Information processing aspects of human health and performance
- Data processing, storage and management
- Detection, classification, and tracking
- Distributed algorithms and reasoning
- Programming models and languages
2. Body sensor networks: Systems and Technology
- Novel communication techniques and protocols
- In-vivo, on-body, near-body networks
- Location, time, and other network services
- Network health monitoring and management
- Performance modeling
3. System design issues of Medical Digital Devices
- Operating systems and runtime environments
- Power
- Reliability and fault-tolerance
4. Assistive Technologies for aged and disabled
- Longitudinal studies showing impact on health care and performance
5. Security and privacy, including HIPAA for medical applications
6. HCI/Wearable Computing for Medical Applications
- Social impacts
- Usability
- Brain Computer Interactions
- Wearable system design issues
- Entertainment
7. Medical Applications
- Pervasive health care and patient monitoring within hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings
- Pervasive health care and patient monitoring in residential and other non healthcare delivery setting
- Prosthetics and other novel medical applications