VR Health&WellBeing 2022: Virtual Reality for Health and Wellbeing Building C6, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal, November 27, 2022 |
Conference website | https://techandpeople.github.io/vrhealth/#cfp |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vrforhealthwellbeing0 |
Abstract registration deadline | October 23, 2022 |
Submission deadline | October 23, 2022 |
Call for Papers
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VR for Health & Wellbeing: MUM 2022 Workshop aims to further develop the debate regarding the implications and factors that might hamper the implementation of VR systems targeting health and wellbeing outcomes.
https://techandpeople.github.io/vrhealth/
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Important dates
- Submission deadline: October 23rd, 2022 (extended)
- Notification: October 27th, 2022
- Workshop: November 27th, 2022
Workshop Goals
This workshop aims to promote the exchange of experiences, knowledge, and know-how on strategies to develop effective and accessible VR tools for diagnosis, intervention, rehabilitation, and monitoring of health and wellbeing. Its main goals are:
- Provide practical guidance for developing effective, usable, and accessible VR tools
- Understand the strengths and limitations of VR technology in healthcare
- Raise awareness and provide guidance to the design of technology that effectively takes into account patient needs, aligns with their values, and offers them benefits over more traditional approaches
- Understand the ethical, privacy, and access implications of VR technology in clinical populations
- Future scenarios and opportunities for the use of VR technology
Workshop Topics
The workshop organizers’ backgrounds are diverse and include experience in VR tools for cognitive and functional training and rehabilitation, games for health, serious games, human-computer interaction, accessibility, pervasive health, digital health technologies, physiological sensing, AI, and machine learning.
- VR applications and tools
- Case studies of VR in healthcare
- Challenges and opportunities of VR in healthcare
- Longitudinal deployments and user studies in VR
- Interaction and sensing in healthcare
- Diagnosis and monitoring in VR
- Medical care and interventions in VR
- Cognitive and/or motor training and rehabilitation
- Contextual challenges of VR systems
- Human factors in VR
- Subjective presence/embodiment in VR
- Accessibility in VR
- Ethical implications in clinical research with VR
- Participatory design approaches to VR
- Position papers on the future of VR in healthcare
Submission
The workshop organizing committee invites submission of original and empirical work (e.g., case studies, position papers or provocations) and demonstrations that describe VR tools relevant to the healthcare field. Submissions should use the ACM sigconf template and have a maximum of 4 pages, excluding references, and should be submitted through a conference management system (e.g., EasyChair).
Workshop Format
The workshop organizing committee welcomes everyone who wishes to participate, even if they have not submitted a paper (subject to space availability; priority to authors). The workshop will take place on the 27th of November, 2022 and will be a one-day event (9h00 – 17h00 GMT) at room 6.2.51, C6 building, at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
The authors of accepted papers will give a short presentation, followed by a Q&A session. Presentations will be grouped according to research areas, and a panel of discussion will be gathered for each group of presentations. At the end of the workshop, we will conduct a town hall meeting to discuss and outline the major
Organizers
Filipa Ferreira-Brito, LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Hristijan Gjoreski, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia
Oscar Mayora, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Mitja Luštrek, Department of Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Emilija Kizhevska, Department of Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia
João Guerreiro, LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Kathrin Gerling, KU Leuven, Department of Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Belgium
Sergi Bermúdez i Badia, Departamento de Engenharia Informática & NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics, Universidade da Madeira, and ARDITI, Portugal
Tiago Guerreiro LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Support
This workshop was particially supported by the UE H2020 WideHealth project (grant agreement No 952279) and FCT through LASIGE funding (ref. UIDB/00408/2020 and ref. UIDP/00408/2020)