The rapid aging of population worldwide has brought unprecedented social economic challenges to the society. Apart from physical, cognitive and emotional difficulties faced by senior citizens, two new types of challenges – social challenges and sustainable economic development challenges – are becoming more pronounced. Research and technology that will enable the elderly to lead an active, independent and dignified lifestyle are urgently needed.
The 5th International Conference on Ageless Aging (ICAA’17) will act as a forum to discuss advances in the state-of-the-art in research and practice to help the elderly enjoy an active and independent lifestyle. Authors from both academia and industry are invited to share their experience, vision, ideas and research about ageless aging. Both theoretical and practical contributions are welcome.
ICAA’17 welcomes submissions reporting research that advances ageless aging, broadly conceived. The conference scope includes multi-disciplinary areas, including (but not limited to) topics such as AI and data analytics, cognition and person-centric care, future nursing home, life-long learning, aging-in-place, serious games, productive aging, aging studies and test-bedding.
ICAA’17 will be jointly organized with two other conferences: the 2017 International Conference on Agents (ICA’17) and the 2017 International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering (ICCSE’17). The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
AI and Data Analytics
Virtual Companions
Agent Emotion Modeling
Human-agent Interaction Design
Persuasion Technology
Elderly User Behavior Analysis and Modeling
Human Factors
Agent-based Personalized Rehabilitation
Intention Based Recommendation
Context Aware Optimization
Personalized Service Discovery and Matching
Cognition and Person-Centric Care
Cognitive Functioning
Models of Care
Preventive Intervention
Rehabilitation
Cognitive Decline Prevention
Dementia
Parkinson
Stroke
Aging Study and Test-bedding
Crowdsourcing
Human computer interaction
Phenomenography
Participatory design and co-design approaches
Culture awareness
Innovative technologies for test-bedding
Sustainability Future Nursing Home
Assistive technologies to reduce manpower
Data analytics for nursing home studies
Provision of companion and support to the residents
Innovations to improve the well-being of the staff
Sustainable and affordable care models
Designs to improve the living environment
Other factors involved in future-ready nursing homes
Life-long Learning
Measuring learning success
Motivational and affective aspects
Learning analytics
Educational datamining
Human computer interaction
Adaptation and personalization
Aging-in-Place
Unobtrusive sensing
Data-driven storytelling
Cognitive analytics
Fall detection and prevention
Location tracking
Social signal processing
Auto indoor navigation
Explained computing
Internet-of-things Serious Games
Motor and cognitive function analysis
Predictive analytics
Game data analytics
Cognitive training and exercise
Personalized rehabilitation
Gerontology disease prevention
Productive Aging
Intergenerational communication
Incentive mechanisms
Recommendation systems
Crowdsourcing
Behavior analytics
Productivity
Industry Application
The emphasis of this track is on technical advances that address aging relevant problems and applications that stretch or present challenges to existing aging technologies.
Blue-sky
The emphasis of this track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, and new research opportunities. This track will serve as an incubator for innovative approaches, provocative ideas, and to propose challenges and opportunities for the field in the near future.
ICAA’17 solicits original work submitted as a regular paper, limited to 6-8 pages, in IEEE format. Accepted papers will appear in the ICAA’17 proceedings. The authors of a selected number of top quality papers will be invited to extend their papers for further review and possible publication in special issues of reputable journals. Papers have to be submitted via the EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaa2017.
AWARDS
Awards will be conferred at the conference to the authors of (1) the best research paper, (2) the best student paper, and (3) the best blue-sky paper.
CONTACT
Concerning author instructions, conference registration, suggestions for the program and other inquiries, write to the ICAA’17 Program Committee at icaa2017@easychair.org.
Organizing Committee
Advisory Committees
Thomas W. Calvert – Simon Fraser University, Canada
Rabab Ward – The University of British Columbia, Canada
Victor Lesser – University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Qiang Yang – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Yueting Chai – Tsinghua University, China
Xiaoming Li – Peking University, China
Ah Hwee Tan – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
General Chairs
Cyril Leung – University of British Columbia, Canada
Chunyan Miao – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chin Jing Jih – Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
Programme Committee Chairs
Jane Z. Wang – University of British Columbia, Canada
Qingming Huang – University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yonggang Wen – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jie Zheng – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Demo/Post/Workshop/Industry Chairs
Zhiqi Shen – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jun Lin – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wen Ji – Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Zhongke Wu – Beijing Normal University, China
Yongqing Zheng – Shandong University, China
Simon Fauvel – University of British Columbia, Canada
Publicity Committee
Qiong Wu – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Liang Zou – The University of British Columbia, Canada
Minting Huang – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
