5th UbiHealth workshop has successfully concluded! An Open Call for a Special Issue in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal is now open. More info here. Submission deadline: January 21st, 2011

This workshop continues the line of UbiHealth workshops organized at the Ubicomp conference in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Up till now, the majority of research within Ubiquitous Healthcare (UbiHealth) has focused on ubiquitous computing for somatic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, and obesity. Research on these topics is still very relevant and represents the main contribution to UbiHealth.

This year, however, we intend to expand the participation to include researchers working with ubiquitous computing for mental disorders and maintenance of mental health. While, some research has been directed towards dementia and autism, less focus has been given to the major mental disorders, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and stress. However, mental disorders affect around a quarter of all people at some time during their life. These disorders are universal – affecting all countries and societies, and individuals at all ages. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental disorders have a major negative direct and indirect impact on economy and on the quality of life of individuals and families.

We invite researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds such as electrical engineering, computer science, pervasive computing, human computer interface design, psychology, psychiatry and other medical sciences. The main objective of the workshop will be to strengthen the cooperation within the growing community in pervasive healthcare research, allowing lively exchange of ideas and foster new collaborations.

Authors of papers of high merit will be invited to submit Full Papers to Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Special Issue on "Mental Health and the Impact of Ubiquitous Technologies".

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: August 16th, 2010
Camera-ready deadline: September 6th, 2010
Workshop date: September 26th, 2010

Please see Call for Papers page and submit your paper directly to ubihealth [-at-] create-net.org