Description: This workshop is dedicated to affective and assistive technologies to support elderly and other people in need for assistance in their daily activities and social needs. It is run in association with the PETRA 2009 conference. Comprehensive assistance is more than timely reminders and understandable task lists. Appropriate assistance particularly for elder people needs to take into account affective and emotional as well as social aspects. The need for inclusiveness and independent, self-managed life in the home environment requires novel techniques for both, detection of situations in which assistance is needed, and for the assistance itself. Technologically, it requires specific interaction methods, suitable presentation of information, adequate sensing techniques and appropriately communicative and assistive devices. This workshop aims to provide a platform for researchers and product developers alike to exchange and propose new ideas, discuss novel technologies and approaches, and not least to show latest developments and project results. 

Event Venue: Corfu, Greece

Other Info: Call for papers deadline 1st March 2009. Contributions sought on the following subjects: non-obtrusive activity monitoring; non-obtrusive technologies for fall-detection;non-obtrusive observation of persons in their home environment for affect-related signs;mobile sensing of affect-related parameters;multi-modal analysis of affective and behavioural data;mobile assistance in daily activities, for health care and therapeutic support; assistive robots in the home and health context;affective human-technology interaction;novel interaction methods tailored to the elderly;studies on elderly and their attitudes to and interaction with technology. 

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