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REHAB 2015 : 3rd Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques | |||||||||||||||
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3rd Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques.
REHAB 2015 ( http://www.rehab-workshop.org), which will be organized between the 01st-02nd of October 2015, in University Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologías, Lisbon, Portugal SCOPE During the last few years, there has been increasing interest in the application of Virtual Reality and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), in the field of rehabilitation, with clinical results that prove their effectiveness. The virtual reality is being an increasingly used method in physical rehabilitation, allowing individualized treatments, as to facilitate learning motivation, to finally, provides patients pleasant and enjoyable homework exercises. This is can be done, for example, by applying the use of Nintendo Wii Balance Board, a low-cost visual biofeedback systems, and the implementation of programs for improving the patients balance. OBJECTIVE This workshop invites authors to submit contributions on concepts Virtual Rehabilitation Discussion, applications, techniques or environments where interaction design play a central role by improving the rehabilitation process at all levels. TOPICS OF INTEREST Key issues in this workshop will focus on (but are not limited to): Virtual and enhanced environments Motor rehabilitation Neuroimaging in rehabilitation Virtual rehabilitation Clinical assessment Cognitive rehabilitation Communication and language Ambisonics and audio environments Haptic devices Sensory impairment Medical systems Input devices, sensors and actuators Multi-user systems for user interaction Computer access Virtual humans Balance, posture and mobility Communications aids Tools for architectural/CAD design Product design, testing and prototyping Training tools for rehabilitation Augmented reality applications Human factors Rehabilitation robotics PUBLICATIONS All accepted submissions would be published in the ACM Digital Library, and Extended into Springer Chapter books to be indexed by dblp, Scopus and Science Direct and submitted to Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science (ISI Web of Science). All accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version for inclusion in a special issue of an (ISI) International Journal, according to the paper topic: Journal of Medical Internet Research (IF: 4.6) Methods of Information in Medicine (IF: 1.6) Disability and Rehabilitation (IF: 1.541) IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 29th, 2015 Author Notification: July 19th, 2015 Camera-Ready Deadline: September 3rd, 2015 Workshop Date: October 01st-02nd, 2015 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Habib M. Fardoun King Abdulaziz University (KAU) Saudi Arabia hfardoun@kau.edu.sa Víctor Ruiz Penichet University of Castilla-La Mancha Spain victor.penichet@uclm.es Pedro Gamito COPELABS, Lusophone University Lisbon, Portugal pedro.gamito@ulusofona.pt ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Pedro Gamito COPELABS, Lusophone University Lisbon, Portugal pedro.gamito@ulusofona.pt Sergio Albiol Peréz University of Zaragoza Spain sergio.albiol@unizar.es WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE Belinda Lange. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California Willem-Paul Brinkman. Delft University of Technology Mariano Luis Alcañiz. Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación en Bioingeniería Beatriz Rey. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Christos Bouras. University of Patras Imre Cikajlo. Univerzitetni rehabilitacijski inštitut Republike Slovenije Roberto Lloréns. Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación en Bioingeniería José Antonio Gil. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Mónica Cameirão. University of Madeira Sergi Bermudez. University of Madeira Emily Keshner. Temple University Hermenegildo Gil. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Kjartan Halvorsen. Uppsala University Thalmann Daniel. University of Paul Sabatier Rosa Maria E. Moreira. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Georgina Cárdenas-López. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Evelyne Klinger. French National Research Agency Ben Challis. Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries Guillermo Palacios. University of Zaragoza Best regards, REHAB 2015 Workshop Co-chairs Habib M.Fardoun Pedro Gamito Victor M.Ruiz Penichet Sergio Albiol |
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