Seamless Interaction in Ambient Assisted Homes 2009
Welcome to the 1st Workshop on Seamless Interaction in Ambient Assisted Homes.
Ageing of society is of high social relevance and brings new challenges regarding the design of information systems. The emerging objective is to improve the quality of life at old age with new technologies. Supporting persons in their own homes in their daily living in a seamless and helpful fashion is one of the big challenges of ambient assisted homes. Ambient assisted homes meet the needs of everyday life and the sustainment of quality of life and self-sufficiency. Traditional means for user interface development as known from desktop computing are often not suitable for these environments. Additional factors have a strong impact on the design for ambient assisted living. The aim of this workshop is to deepen our understanding of the user's needs and the design for ambient assisted homes. Scenarios addressed include support for the daily tasks in the personal household, monitoring and prevention in home-based rehabilitation sport, assessment of activity, social interaction, as well as prevention and detection of emergency situations.
The workshop seeks to bring together researchers, developers, practitioners and students from academia and industry who are concerned with envisioning, designing and implementing user interfaces for ambient assistive homes. Aiming at an interdisciplinary view on the topic, we invite submissions and participants from computer science, psychology, nursing care, gerontology, geriatrics and rehabilitation medicine.
The workshop will be held as a full day workshop at the University of Berlin in conjunction with Mensch und Computer 2009 taking place September 06-09, 2009.
Important Dates
The SeamIx@Home Workshop will unforunately not take place this year.
The workshop website is online now. Call for papers has been announced.
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