Mobile4Medicine: 5th Workshop on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing for Personalized Medicine Athens, Greece, August 18-20, 2026

Description

Personalized medicine needs more than algorithms. It needs systems that can sense, connect, and adapt in the real world, across diverse people, contexts, and care pathways. Mobile4Medicine focuses on mobile systems and pervasive computing that enable patient centered healthcare, from continuous sensing and data acquisition to intelligent analysis and actionable feedback. Smartphones, wearables, ambient sensors, and connected medical devices are now capable of capturing rich signals in daily life and turning them into timely support for prevention, diagnosis, monitoring, and rehabilitation.

Telehealth and telemedicine are also reshaping healthcare delivery, with care increasingly moving from hospitals to homes and communities. Advances in IoT, edge and cloud computing, data analytics, and machine learning make it possible to build solutions for chronic disease management, recovery support, and lifestyle interventions that are responsive, scalable, and personalized. At the same time, building trustworthy digital health systems requires attention to interoperability, reliability, usability, and energy efficiency, as well as privacy and security by design.

Mobile4Medicine welcomes research and practice oriented contributions that bridge technology and healthcare needs. We are especially interested in work that demonstrates end to end thinking: sensing and biosignal processing, robust mobile and embedded platforms, intelligent decision support, secure data sharing, and clinically meaningful evaluation. Submissions that report deployment experiences, real world studies, and lessons learned are strongly encouraged, including negative results that can help the community avoid common pitfalls.

The workshop is intentionally multidisciplinary. We invite researchers and practitioners from mobile and pervasive systems, AI and data science, HCI, security and privacy, rehabilitation engineering, and healthcare to share innovations that improve wellbeing and enable more equitable access to care. If your work involves mobile applications, ubiquitous devices, intelligent analytics, assistive and robotic technologies, AR and wearables, or scalable cloud and edge infrastructures for healthcare, Mobile4Medicine is a great place to present it.

We particularly encourage submissions with real world evaluations, deployments, datasets, tools, and lessons learned.

Topics

Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished papers on (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Interoperability, security, privacy, and efficiency in healthcare information systems
• Ambient intelligence for wellbeing and e-health, including RFID and wireless sensor networks
• Mobile applications and ubiquitous devices for healthcare and lifestyle support
• Robotic systems and assistive devices for healthcare and medicine
• Technologies that promote a healthy, safe, and inclusive society
• Big data analytics for digital health and e-health
• Machine learning and AI for healthcare and personalized medicine
• Intelligent decision support, clinical workflows, and data driven systems for health and care
• Innovation in people supporting activities (for example healthcare, schooling, and public services)
• Embedded and edge systems for healthcare
• Biosignal acquisition, analysis, processing, and multimodal sensing
• Telemedicine, remote monitoring, and home based care
• Physiological computing on mobile and wearable devices
• Augmented reality in healthcare, including wearable and assistive AR
• Cloud computing platforms and architectures for healthcare
• Mobile application concepts, frameworks, and cross platform technologies for digital health

Publication

All MobiSPC 2026 accepted papers, and affilitated workshops as Mobile4Medicine, will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings.

Paper Submission

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Overleaf. Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 6 pages including all figures, tables and references. The papers must be submitted at Easychair.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2026 (HARD DEADLINE)
• Author Notification Deadline: May 6th, 2026
• Final Manuscript Due: June 3th, 2026

Workshop Chairs

Ivan Miguel Pires

Instituto de Telecomunicações, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Águeda, Universidade de Aveiro, Águeda, Portugal

E-mail:impires@ua.pt

Nuno M. Garcia

IBEB, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

E-mail:nmgarcia@fc.ul.pt