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Special Session on
Mobility solutions for social inclusion - MSSI 2017

22 - 24 April, 2017 - Porto, Portugal

Within the 3rd International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - VEHITS 2017


CHAIR

Sara Paiva
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
Portugal

 
Brief Bio
Sara Paiva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vigo University and is making her post-doc studies in Universidad de Oviedo under the thematic of urban mobility. She is an invited professor at Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo and currently coordinates the Applied Research Center for Digital Transformation. Her main research area is mobile/IoT solutions applied to the social inclusion promotion. Sara acts as project manager of several mobile projects such as final projects from degree and master courses, projects in partnership with companies and for social institutions. She has edited and co-edited books and special issues and has more than 20 publications among peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conferences proceedings. Since December 2016 Sara is the coordinator of Inclusive School project, that works in straight collaboration with more than 15 social institutions.

SCOPE

The special session on "Mobility solutions for social inclusion" aims to gather researchers that are currently focusing their work on promoting social inclusion for elders and/or disabled people, such as blind or visually impaired people, with mobile solutions that clearly help them in their daily routines.

Topics of interest:
IoT applied to disabled people
Mobile solutions for navigation
Algorithms for routing disabled people
Optimisation of user interfaces
Mobile solutions for using public transports
Mobile solutions to support pedestrian walks
Monitoring and tracking platforms
Mobile applications combined with sensory technology

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: February 20, 2017 (expired)
Authors Notification: March 1, 2017 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: March 13, 2017 (expired)

SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Carlos Abreu, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Amr Goneid, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Sérgio I. Lopes, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
António Miguel Rosado da Cruz, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Abdel-Badeeh Mohamed Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Vitor Santos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Tiago Soares da Costa, Independent Researcher, Portugal

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PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.

PUBLICATIONS

After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by DBLP, Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index, EI and SCOPUS.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library
A short list of papers presented at the special session venue will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a special issue of International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communication - IJMCMC
A short list of papers presented at the special session venue will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a chapter of the book Mobile Applications and Solutions for Social Inclusion - MASSI

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS

VEHITS Special Sessions - MSSI 2017
e-mail: vehits.secretariat@insticc.org
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