CALL FOR PAPERS (Download the pdf format)7th International Symposium on Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health9-10 January, 2018 – Boston, USA
Past editions: 2011 Dublin, Ireland; 2012 Faro, Portugal; 2013 Venice, Italy; 2014 Tokyo, Japan; 2015 Milan, Italy; 2016 Barcelona, Spain; MindCare will continue the tradition of being a place where technological, psychiatric and psychological disciplines meet. It hosts top researchers and practitioners focused on exploiting technological advancements to maintain and/or improve mental health. Technology is allowing the acquisition of unprecedented information related to individuals’ mental wellbeing as well as the provision of novel methods of treatment. The MindCare Community leverages the opportunities offered by the technological advancements to provide an improved diagnosis, a better support to both healthy subjects and patients, but also to extend the theoretical knowledge. In this regard, we are soliciting high-quality papers in the following topics (but not limited to): |
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Sensing and data processing
User experience
Applications
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Important datesPaper submission due October 31st, 2017 Acceptance Notification November 20th, 2017 Camera‐ready deadline December 10th, 2017 Organizing committeeLocal ChairsYuri Ostrovsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Justin T. Baker, McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry and Harvard Medical School, MA, USA
Symposium General Chairs Silvia Serino, Catholic University of Milan, Italy Pietro Cipresso, Istituto Auxologico, Milan, Italy
Program Chairs
Daniela Villani, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Publicity Chairs Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, i3B, Valencia, Spain
Poster Chair Elisa Pedroli, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy |
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Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: regular papers up to 10 pages, short papers up to 6 pages and poster papers up to 3 pages. The papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNICST Author Guidelines. All the submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three expert reviewers. Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. For additional information please visit www.mindcaresymposium.org
Publication
The accepted papers will be published by Springer and they will appear in the SpringerLink - one of the largest digital online libraries that covers a myriad of scientific disciplines. In addition, the proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: Scopus, DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).
