The continuously growing life expectancy in combination with the massively increasing cost of healthcare in most industrial countries leads to significant challenges in the provision of appropriate healthcare services. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an active research field for developing new concepts and integrated systems for the provision of assistive services for daily life activities with a special focus on medical applications.

The workshop focuses on Ambient Health Monitoring as a novel paradigm of healthcare provision in our daily living environment. In traditional medical scenarios, specialised infrastructure and laboratories have been used solely to obtain the health status of a patient. With the advancement of medical sensor technologies, wireless personal medical appliances, and powerful commodity devices (e.g., smartphones), radically new possibilities for real-time and in-situ monitoring of health parameters have become possible.

Ambient Health Monitoring includes all aspects of comprehensive healthcare services, including vital parameter sensing, reasoning, awareness, self-management and intervention. Ambient Health Monitoring broadens the scope of traditional medical data acquisition and intervention techniques to include technology in smart homes, mobile devices, and even in everyday objects, like furniture, clothes or toys. Ambient Health Monitoring therefore covers very different environments, including laboratories, personal spaces, and even urban scenarios. Ambient Health Monitoring also allows for real-time observation of individuals and larger groups, awareness systems for health status reflection, and intervention based on self-organised health-related activities and professional intervention. By advancing the use of Ambient Health Monitoring technology in the context of daily living, we aim to foster an increasingly healthy society.

The workshop brings together researchers and graduate students to stimulate a vibrant discussion.