Setembro 2010
• 4ª Reunião de Concertação TICE.PT – Status LUL – 23 de Setembro de 2010, Lisboa, Portugal
LUL no Portugal Tecnológico 2010
LUL no Interspeech 2010

Novembro 2010
Fotos - FALA 2010 – 12 de Novembro, 2010, Vigo, Espanha
Crowd-sourcing platform for large-scale speech data collection - FALA 2010 – 12 de Novembro de 2010, Vigo, Espanha

Janeiro 2011
Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL latest solutions, trends and applications

Chair
Miguel Sales Dias
e-mail: Miguel.Dias@microsoft.com


Call for papers:
It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the event Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL latest solutions, trends and applications @ BIOSTEC 2011, in Rome.
This event aims to present the latest results in the field of Ambient Assisted Living and to provide a forum for discussing the results achieved in the context of the project Living Usability Lab (LUL) for next generation networks. The technical program will consist of a full day of oral presentations presenting both internal contributions to LUL project and latest research and applications on Ambient Assisted Living area.
The authors are invited to submit their research contributions. All papers will be peer reviewed by a team of reviewers composed by members of the LUL consortium as well as external experts. The event provides an opportunity to present state-of-art research and development in a variety of topics related with LUL project, as well as an opportunity to come up-to-date on important issues involved in the enhancement of Ambient Assisted Living.

Topics:
• Indoor localization methods
• Wireless body sensors networks
• Next generation networks for aal
• Elderly care support
• Ambient intelligence
• Speech technologies
•  Signal processing
• Multimodal user interfaces
• Pervasive monitoring technologies
• Smart homes
• Assistive technologies for: seniors, handicapped people
• Robots at home
• Software engineering for accessibility
• Design for all
• End-user development for accessibility
• Accessibility and usability
• Adaptive interfaces
• Widget design for multi-platform
• Human computer interfaces
• Gesture interfaces
• Speech interfaces
• Natural language interfaces
• Tangible and Organic interfaces
• Independent living and active ageing

Paper submission and publication:
Each contribution must be prepared according to the format followed by BIOSTEC conference (http://www.biostec.org/paper_templates.asp). The submission guidelines are presented in http://www.biostec.org/submission_guidelines.asp . Contributions should be submitted electronically (website for submission goes here) before the paper submission deadline (30th Sept 2010). All submissions will be peer reviewed by a team of reviewers composed by members of the LUL consortium and external experts. All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings book published by INSTICC.

Important dates:
Regular Paper Submission: September 30, 2010
Authors Notification: November 02, 2010
Final Paper Submission and Registration: November 19, 2010

Committee
Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Luís Corte-Real, FEUP e do INESC Porto
Miguel Sales Dias, MLDC
Daniela Braga, MLDC
Hyongsil Cho, MLDC
Cristiano Chesi, MLDC
Hugo Gamboa, PLUX e FCT Universidade Nova de Lisboa
José Fonseca (Micro I/O e IT/UA)
Nelson Rocha (ESSUA/SACS/IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro)
António Teixeira (DETI/IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro)
Osvaldo Pacheco (DETI/IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro)
Alexandra Queiros ((ESSUA, Universidade de Aveiro)
António Neves (DETI/IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro)
Catarina Oliveira (ESSUA/IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro)

Remi Bastide, Centre universitaire de Formation et de Recherche Jean-François Champollion (Remi.Bastide@irit.fr)
Pedro Vieira - FCT Universidade Nova de Lisboa (pmv@fct.unl.pt)
Ana Fred - IST (afred@lx.it.pt)
Emmanuel Conchon, Centre universitaire de Formation et de Recherche Jean-Francois Champollion (emmanuel.conchon@univ-jfc.fr)
João Paulo Cunha (DETI/IEETA, Universidade de Aveiro) (jcunha@ua.pt)
Rubén San segundo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) (lapiz@die.upm.es)
Teresa Chambel (tc@di.fc.ul.pt)
Urbano Nunes, University of Coimbra, General Chair of IEEE ITSC2010
Antonio Fernando Coelho, Universidade do Porto
João Manuel Pereira Barroso (jbarroso@utad.pt)

Contacts:
PLUX:
Phone: +351 217959120
Fax : +351 217976007
E-mail: plux@plux.info(other contacts)