- Alexia Briasouli, J. Benois-Pineau, Alexander Hauptmann. 2013. Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Multimedia indexing and information retrieval for healthcare. Abstract: It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2013 ACM MM Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Information Retrieval for Healthcare -- MIIRH'13. This is the first workshop on Multimedia Information Indexing and Retrieval for Healthcare and is intended to establish a platform for the continued discussion of key research issues in multimedia for healthcare, remote monitoring and treatment. Multimodal monitoring for health can take place at home, but should be discreet, unobtrusive and personalized. Theoretical, i.e. research-oriented and practical, application-specific issues related to the extraction of lifestyle, behavior and health information from multimodal data will be examined. The setup of smart homes has become of great interest lately, as the latter need to ensure accurate, reliable, discreet and cost-efficient measurements, involving, among others, privacy protection and appropriate sensor placement. Marketing of multimodal remote monitoring options also needs to be examined carefully, as independent living at home, smart homes and remote care are forecast to gain importance in years to come. Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval research is now being oriented towards this application domain of primarily importance for the society. Workshop papers and presentations will focus on the analysis of multimodal data to obtain information pertinent to healthcare problems and also examine remote monitoring solutions. Personalization, unobtrusiveness, accuracy of analysis results, data storage, retrieval, transmission, marketability and privacy concerns are among the many topics that will be discussed. 
