Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health 2013). After a successful edition of the conference in San Diego, USA in 2012, the conference returns to Europe, on the beautiful island of San Servolo in Venice, Italy. This year marked the 7th edition of the conference that captured pertinent topics in Pervasive Health, spanning across a spectrum of research activities in health and wellbeing. This was well reflected in technical sessions, where topics range from understanding affect, emotion and sleep; stress, exercise and behaviour up to design of technologies to address patients', caregivers' and physicians' needs.