ICOST 2010 is pleased to announce 8th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics. The theme is 'Aging Friendly Technology for Health and Independence'.

At present, absolute numbers and proportion of the elderly population has been increasing globally, while the numbers of human resources that could care the elderly have been diminishing. Due to this, a burden on life of the individual elderly and our society has been pressing. Thus, Information & Communication Technology (ICT) is a promising and pioneering field that mitigates the burden in everyday life settings and broadens beneficial opportunities. It has been expected that various technologies ranged from simple ICT to complex ICT, fixed service to mobile service, services for relatively healthy elderly to services for frail elderly are to be extended and the technology is also expected to be developed towards more ambient and user friendly way. This ICT growth would contribute in enhancing people¡¯s life quality by being merged into diverse life environment. There is a great significance in ICT field¡¯s development to hold this conference in South Korea as South Korea is aging very quickly and expected to face agequake in the future and is the ICT leading country. As ICT is a both academic and scientific theme and an important industrial field that has real benign markets, encouraging creativity and inventing new industries with many scientific experts are anticipated at the conference.

Technical topics of interest include,
# Intelligent Environments with emphasis on Smart Homes
# Personal Medical Data Collection and Processing (Health Vaults)
# Devices, Systems and Algorithms for Vision/Hearing/Cognitive/Com. Impairments
# Human-Machine Interface and Ambient Intelligence
# Home Health Monitoring and Intervention
# Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation
# Assistive and Rehabilative Robotics and Smart Wheelchairs
# Context Awareness/Autonomous Computing
# Middleware Support for Smart Home and Health Telematic Services
# Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments
# Real World Deployments and Exp. in Smart Homes, Hospitals, and Living Communities
# Elder Perspectives on Smart Home Technologies
# Assistive Technology to Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults and their Caregivers
# Gerontechnology, Social Science and Health Care Technology
# Aging Friendly Smart Home
# Universal Design Technology for Active Aging
# Philosophy & Foundation for Age-Friendly Care
# Enabling Homes for Next Generation
# Digital Life Scenario & Life Style Engineering
# Technology for Holistic Health and Independence
# User Response & Consumer Evaluation of Smart Home
# User Interface and Universal Design
# U-Health for Smart Global Village