[Announcements] CFP: HomeSHARE Workshop

[Connelly, Katherine Hane]

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From: "Connelly, Katherine Hane" <connelly at indiana.edu<mailto:connelly at indiana.edu>>
Subject: CFP: HomeSHARE Workshop
Date: February 20, 2015 at 3:40:12 PM EST
To: Kay Connelly <connelly at cs.indiana.edu<mailto:connelly at cs.indiana.edu>>

Call for Papers
HomeSHARE: Issues of Geographically Distributed, Home-Based Testbeds for Pervasive Health Research, a workshop at the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.

Submission date:                      15 March 2015
Workshop date:                        20 May 2015
Conference dates:                     21-23 May  2015
Location:                                    Istanbul, Turkey
Workshop website:                 https://crihomeshare.wordpress.com/pervasivehealth-workshop/
Funding for workshop fees available for up to 15 participants*
 Workshop Description
Researchers within the pervasive health community would benefit immensely from a geographically distributed, home-based testbed+ within which to design, develop, and evaluate health technologies in people’s homes. Currently, researchers who work on technology in home environments usually:
1.      deploy small, ad hoc technologies,
2.      recruit participants using convenience sampling rather than representative populations,
3.      spend significant resources to build their own small testbeds, and/or
4.      rely on simulated data to answer research questions.
 Such small, local evaluations greatly limit the generalizability of results to a larger population. A geographically distributed testbed, with deployment and management responsibilities divided amongst different research groups, would provide a scalable and cooperative solution to these issues. Such a testbed would push discovery and learning forward by enabling evaluation of technologies, algorithms, and methods with a more diverse population.
 The construction of such a testbed involves numerous coordination and technological issues. This workshop will engage the diverse research community represented by the Pervasive Health conference in exploring the technical, ethical, organizational and economic problems with constructing a HomeSHARE testbed, as well as solutions to those problems. The workshop will benefit from both participants who have practical experience with deploying technologies in people’s homes, as well as participants who could utilize such a testbed to further their research.
 Submissions
To apply to the workshop, please submit a two page position paper that provides:
1.      your name, affiliation and a brief bio,
2.      a high-level description of your research as it relates to the pervasive health community,
3.      your interest in the workshop,
4.      any relevant experience, including a brief description of any home-based deployments your have been involved in and/or any home-based health technologies you have developed,
5.      a brief description of the most important challenge(s) you see in developing a geographically distributed, home-based testbed.
The organizing committee will select participants based on their position papers. Organizers will prioritize having a diversity of perspectives present at the workshop, as well as a diversity of experience. The organizers have funding to pay for the workshop fee of up to 15 participants. All submissions will be considered for funding.
All accepted workshop papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published in the IEEE Library. They will also be indexed in: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings, SCOPUS, DBLP, and ScienceDirect.
 Paper submissions should be formatted using the IEEE paper template available here:
http://pervasivehealth.org/2015/show/authors-kit
Paper should be emailed to Kay Connelly (connelly at indiana.edu<mailto:connelly at indiana.edu>).
Important Dates
Paper submission                                      15 March 2015
Notification of acceptance                      1 April 2015
Camera ready version of paper             10 April 2015
Workshop date                                           20 May 2015
Conference dates                                        21-23 May  2015


* provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1405873
+ Note that a testbed is distinct from a Living Lab in that the former is a collection of homes recruited from the community, while the later is a dedicated space under complete control of the researchers.

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