Special Issue on Workshops of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2013)

摘要

The Pervasive Healthcare community has a broad scope of research topics and concerns. They include (ⅰ) identifying and understanding problems from a technological, social, and medical perspective; (ⅱ) design, implementation, and evaluation of supporting hardware and software infrastructures, algorithms, and applications; and (ⅲ) organizational strategies that facilitate integration of Pervasive Healthcare technology into the healthcare enterprise, The 2013 Pervasive Healthcare Conference was held on May 5-8, 2013 in Venice, Italy. It intended to address the above topics and concerns. The PervasiveHealth 2013 was a huge success. Attendees were from all over the world and quality research and practices were presented and discussed by world-renowned researchers and practitioners. In addition to the Conference, several workshops were held at the same time. They provided a dynamic and intimate forum for people to discuss areas of special interest within pervasive computing related to health-specific applications. The workshops afford the participants the opportunity to examine an area with a selected focus in an open environment for the free exchange of views. This issue includes three outstanding papers selected from the Workshops. The last two are regular papers submitted to the Journal. Abrief introduction of each of the five articles is given next.