Announcements

Conference: 17th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2024)
Date: 26–28 June 2024
Organized by: University of Texas at Arlington, USA

The PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference is a highly interdisciplinary conference that focuses on computational and engineering approaches to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance in a wide range of settings, in the workplace, at home, in public spaces, urban environments, and others. The outcomes of this conference have a broad impact in application areas that include manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy systems, security and safety, robotics, biomedicine, environment and conservation, and many others. PETRA brings together very different types of technologies to also address important social and healthcare issues for sensitive populations, such as the elderly and persons suffering from chronic conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy, and other disabilities or traumas.

Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Human-centered computing;
• Sensor networks for pervasive healthcare;
• Assistive technologies for urban environments;
• Mobile and wireless technologies;
• Healthcare privacy and data security;
• Intelligent assistive environments;
• Smart rehabilitation systems;
• Behavior monitoring systems;
• Ambient assisted living;
• Navigation systems;
• Collaboration and data sharing;
• AI and healthcare informatics;
• Human–robot interaction;
• Robotics research for rehabilitation and tele-rehabilitation;
• Computer vision and machine learning algorithms;
• Data privacy and remote health monitoring;
• Games for physical therapy and rehabilitation;
• Game design for cognitive assessment and social interaction;
• User interface design and usability;
• Reasoning systems and machine learning;
• Affective computing;
• Cyberlearning: theory, methods, and technologies;
• Haptics;
• Gesture and motion tracking;
• Computer vision in healthcare;
• Cognitive modeling, cognitive fatigue;
• Wearable computing and wearable devices;
• Vocational safety and health monitoring;
• Internet of Things (IoT);
• Virtual and augmented reality environments;
• Cyberphysical system applications and pervasive computing;
• Technologies for senior living;
• Eye tracking and facial recognition;
• Telemedicine and sensors;
• Social impacts and ethical impacts of pervasive technologies;
• Technologies to provide assessment and intervention for stroke recovery, spinal cord injury, and multiple sclerosis;
• Technologies for improving quality of daily living;
• Innovative design for smart wheelchairs and smart canes;
• Computer based training systems for artificial limbs and prosthetics;
• Disability computing: Smart systems to assist persons with visual, hearing, and loss of limb functionalities;
• Pervasive technologies for smart cities of the future.

All authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the Topical Collection “Selected Papers from the PETRA Conference Series” of the MDPI journal Technologies (ISSN: 2227-7080). For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: http://www.petrae.org/index.html.