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Organising Committee
Floriana Grasso (main
contact)
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
Ashton Building, Ashton Street
Liverpool L69 3BX,
UK
Tel: +44 151 795 4240
Fax: +44 151 794 3715
floriana@csc.liv.ac.uk
Alison Cawsey
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
alison@macs.hw.ac.uk
Cecile Paris
CSIRO ICT Centre
Building E6B, Macquarie University Campus
Herring Road, North Ryde NSW 2113, Australia
cecile.paris@csiro.au
Silvana Quaglini
Laboratory for Medical Informatics,
Department of Computer Engineering and Systems Science,
University of Pavia,
Via Ferrata 1
27100 Pavia (Italy)
silvana.quaglini@unipv.it
Ross Wilkinson
CSIRO ICT Centre
GPO Box 664
Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
Ross.Wilkinson@csiro.au
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The past years have witnessed unprecedented levels of
investment in the e-Health sector, both in terms of research effort, and in
terms of funding, as well as a great public interest. e-Health can be
broadly defined as the application of IT (especially Internet technologies)
to improve the access, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of any
processes (clinical and business alike) related to health care. In the
e-Health vision, intelligent systems would, for example, enable:
- citizens to take more control of their
well-being, by accessing personalised and qualified health
information, both medical and pedagogical, and accessing appropriate
medical care from their homes;
- health professionals to manage their
activity more efficiently, by receiving relevant and timely updates;
and
- teams of health professionals to work
together more effectively, coordinating their activities, sharing
their knowledge about the patients they are collectively taking care
of, and ensuring the best coordinated care is provided.
The 2nd workshop on Personalisation for
e-Health intends to consolidate the trend started with the 1st
edition of the workshop, which was held at UM 2005 in Edinburgh,
organised by the same committee, and which successfully brought together
researchers from both the computational and the medical/public health
perspectives to share theoretical results, experiences, and best practices
in providing better personalised services for the consumers of health care.
Like the past edition, this workshop will focus on the many aspects of
personalisation for health delivery, related to e-Health environments.
A non exhaustive list of issues of interest is:
- adaptive and personalised e-Health
information systems (including adaptive content, search and interface)
- tailored health education and advice
(written and online)
- promoting trust and compliance to health
advice
- personalised assistance, including for
special citizens (e.g. disabled, elderly)
- personalisation in chronic care (e.g.
asthma or diabetes management) as opposed to acute care (e.g. ICU
setting)
- privacy issues for health related user
models
- personalisation based both on biometric or
genomic factors and clinical information
- tailored decision support (for patients and
practitioners)
- supporting the implementation of guidelines
and protocols in healthcare
- models of user learning, knowledge,
attitude and behaviour change (including compliance)
- patient/citizen models
- business models (personalisation to various
stakeholders)
- ontologies for user models for tailored
health care delivery
- user of ubiquitous and mobile applications
for the personalisation of eHealth
- methods for evaluating user satisfaction
with ehealth systems (weblog analysis, tracking users, quantitative
and qualitative methods)
- reports on evaluation studies of
personalised eHealth systems.
The workshop welcomes contributions
from diverse perspectives, such as knowledge engineering, multi agent
systems, natural language processing, cognitive modelling, human factors,
mobile computing, as well as public health and medical informatics. Contributions
may describe applications, approaches, and evaluation studies.
Special attention will be dedicated to
system demonstrations: submissions should be accompanied by short written
reports.
The workshop encourages
submissions in three categories:
- Long papers, describing mature research (up
to 6000 words)
- Short papers, describing work in progress
(up to 3000 words)
- Demonstrations of an implemented system:
submission should be accompanied by written reports (up to 3000
words). Authors should contact the organisers to ensure suitable
equipment is available.
Papers should be in PDF format and
submitted electronically via EasyChair.
All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality,
significance, soundness and clarity. Three referees will review each
submission.
Important Dates
- 1st Call for Papers: 5th December 2006
- Deadline submissions: 7th February 2007
(submit here)
- Notification to
authors: 12th March 2007
- Early registration
deadline: 19th March 2007
- UM workshop
programme: 25th, 26th June 2007
- Giuseppe Carenini,
Department of Computer Science, University
of British Columbia, Canada
- Ulises Cortes, Information Systems
Department Technical University
of Catalonia UPC, Spain
- Nadja de Carolis, Department
of Informatics, University of
Bari, Italy
- Reva Freedman, Department
of Computer Science, Northern Illinois
University, US
- Nancy Green, Department of
Mathematical Sciences University of North
Carolina Greensboro,
US
- Peter Haddawy, CSIM
Program Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand
- Patty Kostkova, Institute of Health
Sciences, City University, London, UK
- Tze Yun Leong,
Department of Computer Science, National
University of Singapore
- Peter Lucas, Institute for
Computing and Information Sciences, University
of Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
- Antonio Moreno,
Computer Science and Maths Department University
Rovira i Virgili, Spain
- Terry Payne, Electronics
and Computer Science University
of Southampton, UK
- Ehud Reiter, Department
of Computing Science, University
of Aberdeen, UK
- Valentina Tamma,
Department of Computer Science, University
of Liverpool, UK
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