Call for Paper
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Special Session
WELL-BEING FOR FRAGILE PEOPLE (WHELP 2019)
at GOODTECHS 2019 - 5th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects
and Technologies for Social Good

September 25-27, 2019 - Valencia, Spain
http://goodtechs.eu/whelp/
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Scope
The relationship between people affected by any type of difficulty, both physical and cognitive, and their families or institutional caregivers is a topic of great importance in the sphere of autonomous and independent living.
The request of services to support autonomy is pressing today more than ever and it will increase with the constant change in the structure of the population.
The quality of life in the community where the person lives is a fundamental requirement: safety, happiness, affection are just three of the points that characterize the state of the person.
The purpose of this session is to assess the state of the tools and methods to identify, evaluate, preserve or increase the well-being of the person, referred to as an overall state of physical, emotional, cognitive and social well-being.

Topics
Authors are solicited to submit original, previously unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to, topic areas:

- Methodological approaches and tools for assessing well-being of frail people
- Interventions techniques
- Tools to promote social/emotional/physical well-being
- Gait analysis
- Active Ageing
- Well-being of aging people
- Well-being of caregivers
- Smart health: improving autonomy at home

We welcome both theoretical and empirical studies, as well as contributions from industry/organizations dealing with the special session topic.

Publication
All registered papers will be published byˇACMˇand made available throughˇACM Digital Library.
* Papers should be in English.
* Regular papers should be up to 6 pages in length.
* PhD track papers should be up to 2 pages in length.
* Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review.
Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI?s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:
* Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 2.497)
* Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Journal (IF: 1.114)
All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:
* EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems
* EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games
Additional publication opportunities:
* EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
* EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series

Paper submission
Papers should be submitted through EAI ?Confy? system, and have to comply with the ACM format. See conference web site.

Chairs
Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Jesus Fontecha, Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain
Fabio Salice, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Important dates
Full Paper Submission deadline: April 10, 2019
Notification deadline: June 1, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: July 1, 2019
Conference: September 25-27, 2019

We will be grateful to you for advertising this special session, for contributing and for inviting your colleagues and/or research students to submit their work. We hope to meet you in Valencia in September.