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Special Session on
Wearable HealthCare - WHC 2017

21 - 23 February, 2017 - Porto, Portugal

Within the 10th International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - BIODEVICES 2017


CHAIR

Vítor Carvalho
2Ai-EST-IPCA & Algoritmi Research Centre, UM
Portugal

 
Brief Bio
Vitor Carvalho received in 2008 his PhD in degree in industrial electronics, in the option of industrial informatics. He is currently working as associate professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA), Barcelos, Portugal as well as integrated researcher of the Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (2Ai) at IPCA being colaborator of the Algoritmi Research Centre at Minho University. He is also currently the Dean of the School of Technology (IPCA). His main fields of interest are related with data acquisition systems and serious games.

SCOPE

Wearable HealthCare is part of the actual human daily life. Nowadays, we are able to find them practically everywhere, as integrated, among others, in our homes, body, mobile devices and vehicles, with the objective of improving our safety, comfort, performance and quality of life.

We invite investigators, academics and professionals to submit original research and review articles that will contribute to the dissemination of Wearable HealthCare in the Engineering domain.



TOPICS:

Potential topics include, but are not limited to smart healthcare applied to:
- Mobile healthcare;
- Home healthcare;
- Wearable healthcare;
- In-Car healthcare;
- Body sensor/area networks;
- “Intelligent” medical devices and systems;
- Ambient assistive living;
- Tele-healthcare.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: December 14, 2016 (expired)
Authors Notification: December 23, 2016 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: January 5, 2017 (expired)

SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Filipe Chaves, Independent Researcher, Portugal
Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha, Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal
Celina Leão, Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho, Portugal
José Machado, Mechanical Engineering Department, MEtRICs, University of Minho, Portugal
Demétrio Matos, Department of Industrial Design and Product (ESD), IPCA-ID+, Portugal
Paulo M. Oliveira, Engineering, Universidade de Tras os Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Filomena Soares, Industrial electronics Dept., Algoritmi Research Centre, UM, Portugal

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PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.

PUBLICATIONS

After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index), Scopus, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and Microsoft Academic.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS

BIODEVICES Special Sessions - WHC 2017
e-mail: biodevices.secretariat@insticc.org
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