Preface
This year we organized the 18th ICOST conference, an event which has succeeded in
bringing together a community from different continents for over a decade and a half
and raised awareness about the frail and dependent people’s quality of life in our
societies.
After 17 very successful conferences held in France (2003, 2009, 2017), Singapore
(2004, 2013, 2018), Canada (2005, 2011), Northern Ireland (2006), Japan (2007), the
USA (2008, 2014, 2019), South Korea (2010), Italy (2012), Switzerland (2015), and
China (2016), we decided to open the conference for the African continent and tackle
the digital technologies impact on public health in developed and developing countries.
This 18th edition of the International Conference on Smart Living and Public Health
(ICOST 2020), was organized by the Digital Research Center (CRNS), Sfax, Tunisia,
and the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT), Paris, France, during June 24–26, 2020. The
conference was intended to be hosted in Hammamet, Tunisia, but was finally hosted
virtually given the COVID-19 situation faced this year. The theme of the conference
was “The Digital Technologies Impact on Public Health in Developed and Developing
Countries.”
ICOST 2020 provided a premier venue for the presentation and discussion of
research in the design, development, deployment, and evaluation of AI for health, smart
urban environments, assistive technologies, chronic disease management, and coaching
and health telematics systems. ICOST 2020 aimed to understand and assess the diverse
and disparate impact of digital technologies on public health in developing and
developed countries. ICOST 2020 brought together stakeholders from health care,
public health, academia, and industry along with end users and family caregivers to
explore how to utilize technologies to foster health prevention, independent living, and
offer an enhanced quality of life. The ICOST 2020 conference featured a dynamic
program incorporating a range of oral and poster presentations, along with panel
sessions.
ICOST 2020 was proud to extend its hospitality to an international community
consisting of researchers from major universities and research centers, representatives
from industry, and users from 17 different countries. We would like to thank the
authors for submitting their current research work and the Program Committee
members for their commitment to reviewing submitted papers. The ICOST proceedings
have now reached over 150,000 downloads and are in the top 25% of downloads of
Springer LNCS. We are extremely thankful to our sponsors for their commitment and
support to the vision and mission of ICOST.
June 2020
Mohamed Jmaiel
Mounir Mokhtari
Bessam Abdulrazak
Hamdi Aloulou
Slim Kallel
This year we organized the 18th ICOST conference, an event which has succeeded in
bringing together a community from different continents for over a decade and a half
and raised awareness about the frail and dependent people’s quality of life in our
societies.
After 17 very successful conferences held in France (2003, 2009, 2017), Singapore
(2004, 2013, 2018), Canada (2005, 2011), Northern Ireland (2006), Japan (2007), the
USA (2008, 2014, 2019), South Korea (2010), Italy (2012), Switzerland (2015), and
China (2016), we decided to open the conference for the African continent and tackle
the digital technologies impact on public health in developed and developing countries.
This 18th edition of the International Conference on Smart Living and Public Health
(ICOST 2020), was organized by the Digital Research Center (CRNS), Sfax, Tunisia,
and the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT), Paris, France, during June 24–26, 2020. The
conference was intended to be hosted in Hammamet, Tunisia, but was finally hosted
virtually given the COVID-19 situation faced this year. The theme of the conference
was “The Digital Technologies Impact on Public Health in Developed and Developing
Countries.”
ICOST 2020 provided a premier venue for the presentation and discussion of
research in the design, development, deployment, and evaluation of AI for health, smart
urban environments, assistive technologies, chronic disease management, and coaching
and health telematics systems. ICOST 2020 aimed to understand and assess the diverse
and disparate impact of digital technologies on public health in developing and
developed countries. ICOST 2020 brought together stakeholders from health care,
public health, academia, and industry along with end users and family caregivers to
explore how to utilize technologies to foster health prevention, independent living, and
offer an enhanced quality of life. The ICOST 2020 conference featured a dynamic
program incorporating a range of oral and poster presentations, along with panel
sessions.
ICOST 2020 was proud to extend its hospitality to an international community
consisting of researchers from major universities and research centers, representatives
from industry, and users from 17 different countries. We would like to thank the
authors for submitting their current research work and the Program Committee
members for their commitment to reviewing submitted papers. The ICOST proceedings
have now reached over 150,000 downloads and are in the top 25% of downloads of
Springer LNCS. We are extremely thankful to our sponsors for their commitment and
support to the vision and mission of ICOST.
June 2020
Mohamed Jmaiel
Mounir Mokhtari
Bessam Abdulrazak
Hamdi Aloulou
Slim Kallel