[visionlist] [CfP] - Special Session on Privacy-aware and acceptable video-based assistive technologies (AAATE 2023)

Wed Jan 18 11:53:06 -04 2023

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Special Thematic Session on Privacy-aware and acceptable video-based
assistive technologies

As part of the 17h International Conference of the Association for the
Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE 2023) -
https://aaate2023.eu/

30 August - 1 September 2023, Paris, France

https://goodbrother.eu/conferences/special-thematic-session-on-privacy-aware
-and-acceptable-video-based-assistive-technologies/

Paper submission deadline: 5 March 2023

One major concern in the development of assistive technologies lies in the
claim for responsible research and the consideration of ethical, legal and
social implications of technology development. At a time in which technology
developments - fostered by the huge and tremendously fast-evolving
innovations through modern information and communication technologies -
enter private spheres and come into close contact with individual, private,
and intimate activities, it is a mandatory claim that any technology
development should be carefully developed and balanced within societal,
cultural and individual values, and norms.

Assistive technologies based on computer vision, multimedia data processing
and understanding, and machine intelligence present several advantages in
terms of unobtrusiveness and information richness. Indeed, camera sensors
are far less obtrusive with respect to the hindrance that other wearable
sensors may cause to people's activities. Currently, video-based
applications are effective in recognising and monitoring activities,
movements, and overall conditions of the assisted individuals as well as to
assess their vital parameters (e.g., heart rate, respiratory rate). However,
cameras are often perceived as the most intrusive technologies from the
viewpoint of the privacy of the monitored individuals. This is due to the
richness of the information that this technology conveys and the intimate
setting where it may be deployed in. Therefore, solutions able to ensure
privacy preservation by context and design as well as to ensure high legal
and ethical standards are in high demand.

This Special Thematic Session (STS) aims to give forum for contributions
presenting and discussing image- and video-based AAL applications, projects
and research as well as initiatives proposing ethical and privacy-aware
solutions.

This STS is supported by the visuAAL Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative
Training Network ( <https://www.visuaal-itn.eu/> https://www.visuaal-itn.eu)
and the GoodBrother COST Action ( <https://goodbrother.eu/>
https://goodbrother.eu). The aim of these projects is to bridge the
knowledge gap between users' requirements and the appropriate and secure use
of video-based AAL technologies to deliver effective and supportive care to
older adults managing their health and wellbeing. They seek to increase
awareness and understanding of the context-specific ethical, legal, privacy
and societal issues necessary to implement visual system across hospital,
home and community settings, in a manner that protects and reassures users;
outputs will stimulate the development of a new research perspective for
constructively addressing privacy-aware video-based working solutions for
assisted living.

Topics

We seek contributions that include, but are not limited to:

*	Video-based assistive technologies:

*	Lifelogging and self-monitoring
*	Human activity and behaviour recognition
*	Personal and daily-life assistance
*	Remote monitoring of vital signs
*	Gesture recognition
*	Fall detection and prevention
*	Emotional state recognition
*	Food intake monitoring
*	Mobility assessment and frailty recognition
*	Cognitive and motor rehabilitation.

*	User acceptance
*	Awareness and understanding of context-specific ethical, legal,
privacy and societal issues
*	Privacy-aware technologies
*	GDPR requirements of AAL solutions
*	Responsible research for older people
*	Fair systems
*	Best practices for interdisciplinary collaborations between law, IT,
care and/or sociology

Submission guidelines

Information for authors is available at the  <https://aaate2023.eu/>
conference website. 

Important dates

*	Paper Submission Deadline: March 5, 2023
*	Notification of acceptance: April 23, 2023
*	Camera ready: May 21, 2023
*	Conference date: August 28 - September 1, 2023

Organising committee

*	Francisco Florez-Revuelta, University of Alicante, Spain
*	Sara Colantonio, Institute of Information Science and Technologies
of the National Research Council of Italy, Italy
*	Martin Kampel, Computer Vision Lab, Vienna University of Technology,
Austria

Francisco Florez-Revuelta  

Professor

Coordinator of visuAAL Marie-Skłodowska-Curie ITN 

Chair of GoodBrother COST Action 

 <https://goodbrother.eu/>    <https://www.visuaal-itn.eu/> 

Dept. of Computing Technology 

Research Group on Domotics and Ambient Intelligence 

University of Alicante 

Ctra. San Vicente del Raspeig s/n,  

03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain 

 <mailto:francisco.florez at ua.es>
<https://personal.ua.es/francisco.florez/>
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscoflorezrevuelta>
<https://personal.ua.es/francisco.florez>
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ApaQimYAAAAJ> 

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