Selected Papers from the PETRA Conference Series

Dear Colleagues,

We are planning to publish a Topic Collection related to the PETRA conference series. The latest events can be found at http://www.petrae.org/cfp.html. All the participants of the PETRA conference series and their colleagues are encouraged to submit their work to this Topic Collection. 

The PETRA conference publishes its proceedings in the ACM digital library, and the US National Science Foundation has supported the conference through its Doctoral Consortium Program for 12 years in a row, giving the opportunity to hundreds of student authors to participate by granting generous travel awards.

Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Healthcare informatics;
• Big data management;
• Data privacy and remote health monitoring;
• Games for physical therapy and rehabilitation;
• User interface design and usability;
• Reasoning systems and machine learning;
• Affective computing;
• Cyberlearning: theory, methods, and technologies;
• Human–robot interaction;
• Human-centered computing;
• Human monitoring;
• Haptics;
• Gesture and motion tracking;
• Cognitive modeling;
• Wearable computing;
• Interactions and the Internet of Things (IoT);
• Cognitive computing;
• Disability computing.

Applications include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Sensor networks for pervasive healthcare;
• Mobile and wireless technologies;
• Healthcare privacy and data security;
• Smart rehabilitation systems;
• Game design for cognitive assessment and social interaction;
• Behavior monitoring systems;
• Computer vision in healthcare;
• Virtual and augmented reality environments;
• Ambient assisted living;
• Navigation systems;
• Collaboration and data sharing;
• Wearable devices;
• Drug delivery evaluation;
• Vocational safety and health monitoring;
• Eyetracking;
• Telemedicine and biotechnology;
• Technologies for senior living;
• Social impact of pervasive technologies;
• Intelligent assistive environments;
• Technologies to provide assessment and intervention for Stroke recovery, spinal cord injury, and multiple sclerosis;
• Technologies for improving quality of daily living;
• Robotics research for rehabilitation and tele-rehabilitation;
• Innovative design for smart wheelchairs and smart canes;
• Computer-based training systems for artificial limbs and prosthetics;
• Disability computing: smart systems to assist persons with visual, hearing, and loss of limb functionalities;
• Smart cities of the future;
• Assistive technologies for urban environments.

Prof. Dr. Fillia Makedon
Guest Editor

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