EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems

https://eudl.eu/journal/cs

Special Issue on The Elderly and the IoT Cloud

https://escripts.eai.eu/publication/298

Submission deadline 31 May 2020

The elderly remain to be the group with the lowest number of users online. This is significant in a society where government, as one example, increasingly want to offer services in an online-only capacity. If portions of society are unable or unwilling to access the services online, this avenue cannot be exploited. While trends in IoT uptake by the over 75s has changed in recent years, older users continue to lag behind other groups. This has proven to be consistent throughout the years, with the elderly today having been exposed to online technology during the later years of their working lifetime; until now, it could have been assumed that a lack of exposure to technology in their earlier years was having a subsequent impact as they age. Why is it the case, therefore, that older users cease to use online technologies, including cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT), at a rate which increases with age? The majority of online cloud and IoT solutions rolled out to date include ones to monitor the elderly in their homes. They do not recognise the social benefits which can be achieved by the elderly using online technologies, and the subsequent positive impact on their mental and physical health: Benefits of engagement with online technology include inclusivity, reduction in social isolation, improved health, employment, and education opportunities.The objective of this Special Issue is therefore to present recent studies in how the elderly perceive cloud and IoT technology, any technology fears, their desire to engage in the IoT and cloud market, and factors which might help them to do so. The Special Issue also aims to present novel solutions which can be rolled-out to support the elderly in their use of technology, and to examine if contributions are possible from the network management perspective to encourage the elderly in their online use.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Features of Internet Service Provider (ISP) service provision for the elderly
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for elderly users
- Quality of Experience (QoE) expectations of elderly users
- Management in telecommunication networks supporting elderly users
- Social exclusion influenced by cloud and IoT technology
- Ageing and IoT technology
- Elderly health and the IoT
- The history of ageing as influenced by technology
- The role played by cloud and IoT technology in health benefits associated with ageing
- Modern technology and shame for older users
- Vulnerability in the ubiquitously connected world
- The elderly and online fraud as a consequence of ubiquitous connection

Requirements for publishing in EAI Endorsed Transactions

- Smart submit: Work-in-progress submitted as an abstract by which feedback, mentorship and co-authors can be obtained for a period of 90 days. This is an optional collaboration tool that might be considered prior to the submission of full papers. More information can be found here.
- Research articles: Articles (4000-8000 words) that report original research and which present objective, questions, methods, results, discussions, and conclusions.
- Review article: In-depth review articles (4000-8000 words) of topics that build upon comprehensive references to the published literature. These articles are meant to offer relevant concepts, frameworks, theoretical proposals and limitations in the topic covered.
- Editorial: These are written by the editor(s) or invited researchers (1000-2000 words) to discuss broader issues related to the articles published in the issue, the journal or certain topics relevant to the journal.

- The articles must be written using the EAI Endorsed Transactions template.
- Researchers should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarized, and has not been published elsewhere.
- The abstract must be structured according to PubMed's format. The abstract should be between 200 and 1000 characters long. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract.
- Three to eight keywords should be included which represent the main content of the article.
- Please ensure that the reference style is followed precisely; if the references are not in the correct style, they may need to be retyped and carefully proofread.
- The articles have to be written in formal English, 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'.
- Only articles and abstracts that have been published or are in press or are available through public e-print/preprint servers, may be cited.
- All references mentioned in the Reference List must be cited in the text, and vice versa.
- Figures and tables need to be in readable quality.
- Permission should be obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet).
- The paper must be submitted through the eScripts system.

Important dates

Manuscript submission deadline: 2020-05-31
Notification of acceptance: 2020-06-28
Submission of final revised paper: 2020-07-17
Publication of special issue (tentative): 2020-08-14

Submit paper: https://escripts.eai.eu/publication/298

Journal Editor-in-Chief: Dr Cathryn Peoples, cathryn.j.peoples@ieee.org