• Use of technology to improve functional ability and promote healthy aging.
• Health interventions to support caregivers of elderly people.
• The effectiveness of public health initiatives and clinical interventions for prevent, reverse or mitigate decreases in physical and mental abilities.
• Solutions for active aging, social integration and self-care.
• Monitoring and management of chronic and non-chronic diseases in ambient assisted living.
• Learning, Training and Coaching systems to promote healthy life in ambient assisted living environments.
• Smart homes and sensor networks for ambient assisted living.
• Context-Awareness in ambient assisted living environments.
• Use of context and location information in user interfaces.
• Elderly nutrition
• Health, wellness and disease monitoring.
• Knowledge management for health: context, cognition, behavior and user modeling.
• Health ecosystems: frameworks, models and methodologies.
• Smarts technologies and algorithms for Health.

On the following link you can freely download the workshop proceedings (only available for a limited time): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-72567-9

We are in the process of negotiation with Springer to publish all accepted works (full and short papers) in a Springer volume as last year. This year accepted works will be published in a Springer LNBE volume. Submitted papers must be formatted in accordance to the information for Springer authors. More info here and here.

At least one author of each accepted submission must register and present the work during the corresponding session.

The following types of submissions are accepted:

• Full research papers with a maximum length of 12 pages, including references and appendices.
• Short papers and position papers with a maximum length of 6 pages, including references and appendices.
• Abstracts with a maximum length of 300 words.



To send articles, please note that LNBE follows the Reference Style Basic, Citation Style NameYear and Numbering Style ContentOnly. You can send your contributions through the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwog2020

Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form, through which the copyright for their paper is transferred to Springer.

The workshop will be held virtually in November 2020 (the exact date will be communicated soon). If the Covid-19 allows it, the attendees will be able to participate in the different venues of the event. Registration for this event is free. One of the authors should complete the registration. The form is located here.

Important information: at least one author of each accepted paper must register at the workshop and present his/her work during the sessions.

The online event (virtual event) will have a set of associated venues, where attendees can physically participate in the event (if the situation of the Covid-19 allows it). The confirmed physical venues are:



Cáceres, Spain
Évora, Portugal
Popayán, Colombia



• Online
• Cáceres


The conference can be followed online. In the program section it will have the links to the Zoom rooms for the different sessions that will be organized.
Please, download and install Zoom client for Meetings from this link previously to the workshop: https://zoom.us/download

The links for Zoom rooms will be avaliable on the Program section.


The workshop can be followed from the Cáceres venue physically. For this purpose, room C7 of the Escuela Politécnica de Cáceres has been fitted out.