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1st Workshop on assistive environments for healthier Nutrition and
better Fitness - NutriFit
This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 3rd International
Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
(PETRA-2010) in Samos, Greece, June 23-25, 2010
ACM will be the publisher of the proceedings of the PETRA conference and
workshops, and the conference proceedings will be a volume in the ACM
International Conference Proceedings Series in the ACM Digital Library.
http://www.petrae.org/workshop.php
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IMPORTANT DATES:
The deadline of full paper submission is March 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance will be given by April 15, 2010
For more information about this workshop, please contact:
riglesias@ikerlan.es
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Topics:
The workshop topics will include, but are not limited to, the following:
* New technologies for supporting good eating and fitness
habits
* New technologies for enhancing user performance in cooking
and sports activities
* Smart appliances
* Non-obtrusive activity tracking (i.e. while eating,
cooking, doing a physical exercise)
* Data mining: processing and extracting patterns of data
for understanding better user needs and providing them with better
solutions
* Support of planning activities
* Novel multi-modal human-computer interaction
* Novel computing methods
* Techniques for Motivating people to adopt a healthier
lifestyle
* Mobile assistance
* Assistive robots
* Developing assistive and open infrastructures
* Innovative solutions and applications
* Technological novelties, evaluations and solutions
* Case studies
* User-experience studies and evaluations
* Research projects
* Trends in smart environments for nutrition and physical
fitness, including sports
NutriFit emphasizes assistive environments that feature healthier
lifestyles and their optimal performance.
In recent years, the changes in the eating and physical activity habits
have dramatically contributed to obesity,
overweight or many other health-related illnesses. Novel research and
technological advances in embedded systems,
mobile communication and computing can offer people the potential to
change and/or improve these habits. The interaction
between good nutrition and physical activity with our health has always
existed. Effective and good nutrition and fitness habits
will definitely help to improve our health, and a balance between energy
intake -food and energy expenditure- and physical
activity is also important. Regarding eating habits, many examples of
assistive environments can be found in the literature dealing
with supporting healthier meals, food safety and cooking. The main
objective of these systems is to improve the quality of user
nutrition, along with supporting or improving food preparation
processes. On the other hand, the benefits of physical activities
and sports are widely known, however they often involve more complex
research issues than nutrition. Issues that range from
how to achieve a successful involvement of people in a physical activity
to how to guide them during a physical or rehabilitation
exercise and how to improve their performance. Not only time performance
but also measuring other parameters that lead to
a better quality of performance of an exercise is desirable. We believe
that performance measures (i.e. arm movements, arm/leg
position) can also foster the motivation of people, together with good
embedded exercising in, for example, game-like applications.
On the other hand, we believe these assistive environments will be of
interest to elderly people, people with dissabilities or who
need physical rehabilitation, and to people's general use. The
workshop's goal is to gather researchers from academia and industry
to make this possible.
In this workshop, the participants will discuss on how to use technology
to achieve assistive environments for everybody's good
nutrition and fitness, including physical fitness and sports. This
workshop's focus is on fundamental research in the area of designing
assistive environments, sensor and context-aware networks, mobile
communication technologies, novel computing systems, usability
and human-computer interaction issues for healthier nutrition and better
fitness, among others, and applications or solutions to targeted
problems with great impact in real-world applications. We encourage
submissions from academia and industry.
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