IEEE VR 2019
1st International Workshop on
Applied XR/VR/AR for Enhanced Healthcare (AVEH)
Osaka, Japan, 23rd March 2019
Announcement
The use of VR and XR to enhance health and well-being is a rapidly growing area showing great promise. However, there is often limited Knowledge Transfer between the healthcare and technology disciplines. Moving forward, we need a more cross-disciplinary understanding of how the unique properties and interaction possibilities of VR can address some of the fundamental healthcare challenges facing society today.
This workshop aims to explore how fundamental understanding of VR can be applied into various healthcare settings and to bring together expert knowledge in both technology and healthcare in order to explore how the potential of VR can be used to support and enhance health and well-being. We will also encourage discussion of the challenges to the development and adoption of VR in healthcare, and how these might be addressed.
The workshop will draw together researchers, developers, clinicians, and industry partners to promote trans-disciplinary research to improve the quality and efficacy of applied VR for enhanced healthcare.
Organisation
The workshop will be organized as a full-day workshop in two parts. The first part of the workshop will provide an overview of existing projects in the field of VR/AR and healthcare. Therefore, invited principal investigators will present their projects related to the application of VR/AR technology in different healthcare domains. Furthermore, people can submit papers about applied research projects, which will be reviewed by our workshop program committee. Authors of accepted project papers will also be allowed to present the projects during the first part of the workshop. The second part of the workshop will be composed of presentations of selected research, application or system papers, which can be submitted via our submission system. All submissions will be reviewed and selected by our workshop program committee.
Call for Papers
We invite participants to submit applications and position papers describing either position statements, preliminary research results, novel concepts or case studies, addressing the way in which VR/AR technologies can be leveraged to enhance healthcare. Our preference will be for submissions which seek to combine an understanding of VR technology with specific goals and methods for providing alternative or enhanced ways to improve the delivery and efficacy of healthcare. We solicit high quality, original research submissions in all areas related, but not limited to, the following topics:
- XR/VR/AR for physical therapy and rehabilitation
Emotion sensing and affective computing in XR/VR/AR- XR/VR/AR for mental health
- XR/VR/AR for healthcare training
- XR/VR/AR for patient education
- Making XR/VR/AR accessible for patients and people with disabilities
- Mobile XR/VR/AR applications for health
- Audio design in XR/VR/AR to enhance healthcare efficacy
- Understanding physical interaction in XR/VR/AR
- XR/VR/AR for behavior change
Submission Deadlines
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (GMT/UTC‐12:00).
- December 11, 2018: Calls for participation
- January 11, 2019: Paper submissions due
- February 5, 2019: Notification of results
- February 19, 2019: Camera-ready submission for inclusion in the IEEE DL
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Submissions should contain substantial scientific contributions to the fields mentioned in the call. Each paper should be classifiable as one of the following:
- Research papers should contribute state-of-the-art advances and provide results as evidence.
- Application papers should explain how pre-existing ideas were applied to solve a novel problem.
- System papers should indicate how developers integrated techniques and technologies to produce a novel system and provide evidence of the system’s effectiveness.
Papers should follow the IEEE VR formatting guidelines. Word, LaTeX as well as a sample PDF can be found
If accepted, you will need to provide the source files and PDFs.
Papers should be 2 pages in length. AVEH 2019 will use a double-blind review process, in which both the authors and the reviewers remain anonymous to each other. Submissions must not contain information that unnecessarily identifies the authors, their institutions, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the authors should be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity.
Papers must be submitted electronically, by the deadline above, through the EasyChair Conference System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aveh2019
Note, if you have not used the EasyChair system before, you will need to register for an account by clicking “Signup” in the upper right corner of the website.
Publication
The proceedings of AVEH 2019 will be published electronically through the IEEE Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register, attend, and present at AVEH 2019.
Program Organizers (in alphabetic order)
- Prof. Dr. Christian Geiger, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, E-Mail: geiger@hs-duesseldorf.de
- Nikolaos Katzakis, University of Hamburg, E-Mail: katzakis@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Fariba Mostajeran, University of Hamburg, E-Mail: mostajeran@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Dr. Charles Nduka, Emteq Ltd, E-Mail: charles@emteq.net
- Sebastian Rings, University of Hamburg, E-Mail: rings@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Dr. Wendy Powell, University of Portsmouth, E-Mail: wendy.powell@port.ac.uk
- Dr. Vaughan Powell, University of Portsmouth, E-Mail: vaughan.powell@port.ac.uk
- Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke, University of Hamburg, E-Mail: steinicke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Marcel Tiator, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, E-Mail: marcel.tiator@hs-duesseldorf.de
Contact
For questions regarding this Call for Papers, please contact the Program Organizers.