eMadrid Network participates on a "Sustainability" Special Issue

(Madrid, February 19th, 2021)

Carmen Fernández Panadero, a member of the eMadrid network, a professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a member of the GAST group (Group of Telematic Applications and Services), will be one of the editors of the special issue of the magazine ‘Sustainability’: “Sustainable Technology and Elderly Life”. She will do it together with Professor Dr. Ana Iglesias (UC3M), Professor Dr. Jorge Morato (UC3M) and Professor Dr. Sonia Sánchez-Cuadrado (UCM).

This Special Issue aims to collect contributions to cover the research gaps in sustainable technology for elderly life, providing a reference resource to the scientific community working in this area.. The intention is to have a forum that collects current proposals that address the different challenges present in this field and aspire to a future where healthy aging with sustainable technology is possible. Specifically, the issues of the issue will revolve around topics such as the elderly-friendly interfaces in robotics, sensor technologies for the elderly, data science AI applications and / or artificial intelligence to process data collected by sensors with the objective to improve healthy aging, among others.

The deadline for submitting articles is May 31, 2021 and is done through the MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) website. You have more details about it in this link.

Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. It provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, and is published semimonthly online by MDPI.