Applications & interventions in mental health

• Mental wellbeing support and disorders prevention
• Smart City solutions for healthier citizens
• Analysis of cognitive and emotional processes
• Computational psychometrics
• Psychotherapy
• Neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation
• Digital interventions and health behavior change
• Big data and predictive analytics
• Artificial intelligence and affective computing
• Agent-based Interfaces
• Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
• Healthcare Robotics
• Health Monitoring
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Serious games
• Data interoperability and standardization

User experience in mental health

• Usability and UX studies
• User centered and inclusive design
• Identifying and addressing stakeholders’ needs
• Technology adoption: barriers and enablers
• Social implications of pervasive health technology
• Novel interfaces and visualizations
• Personalized Interfaces
• Web and Mobile Content Accessibility
• Assistive Technology and Adaptive Systems

Security and privacy in mental health

• Access and Usage Control
• Identity, Privacy and Trust Management
• Security and Privacy in Pervasive Computing
• Security and Privacy of Electronic Health Records
• Security Awareness and Education
• Security Usability
• Security issues in SmartHealth
• Data quality and patient safety

MindCare 2018 conference continues the tradition of being a place where technological, psychiatric and psychological disciplines meet. It hosts top researchers and practitioners focused on exploiting technological advancements to maintain and improve mental health. Technology is allowing the acquisition of unprecedented information related to individuals’ mental wellbeing as well as the provision of novel methods of treatment. The MindCare Community leverages the opportunities offered by the technological advancements to provide an improved diagnosis, a better support to both healthy subjects and patients, and also to extend the theoretical knowledge.

MindCare 2018 is part of the 4th annual Smart City 360˚Summit, promoting multidisciplinary scientific collaboration to solve complex societal, technological and economic problems of emerging Smart Cities.

This event is organized by EAI.

EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower the global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.

EAI’s vision is to foster excellence in research and innovation on the principles of transparency, objectivity, equality, and openness. Our guiding principle is community cooperation to create better research, provide fair recognition of excellence and transform best ideas into commercial value proposition.

EAI‘s mission is to create an environment that rewards excellence transparently, and builds recognition objectively regardless of age, economic status or country of origin, where no membership fees or closed door committees stand in the way of your research career.

Through these shared values, EAI leads the way toward advancing the world of research and innovation, empowering individuals and institutions for the good of society to fully benefit from the digital revolution.