Topics include:

From Mobile to Wearable

• Wearable system design, wearable displays
• Smart-textiles technologies, textile sensing and feedback
• Wearable sensors, actuators, input/output devices
• Hardware and software aspects of power management
• Manufacturing aspects in wearables and smart-textiles
• Wearable sensor networks, networks including wireless networks, on-body networks, and support for interaction with wearables, pervasive and ubiquitous computing systems or the Internet, communication channels, multimedia streaming
• Software and service architectures, infrastructure based and ad-hoc systems, operating systems, dependability, fault tolerance, security, trustworthiness
• Wearable apps designed for / delivered through smartphones
• smartphones services, smartphones designs, smartphones as personal wearables
• Smart phone technologies with a wearable impact, e.g. combining devices
• Extending smartphones hardware with sensing or novel IO modalities
• Smartphones interaction, cooperative smartphones or wearables, grids and clouds of smartphones, ensembles of wearable artifacts, coordination of wearables

Information processing, methods, tools

• Context recognition methods, including location awareness, activity recognition, cognitive-affective states recognition, and social context recognition
• Adaptivity, personalization, customization and lifelong learning in activity recognition
• Robust, fault-tolerant, opportunistic & power-aware methods
• Context-awareness through big data, web-mining and cloud computing
• Data fusion, sensor synergies, advanced machine learning and reasoning for context awareness
• Automating the design of activity recognition chains
• Smart or automated data annotation techniques
• Modeling, simulations, and tools supporting science
• Formal evaluation of performance of wearable computer technologies

Usability, HCI and Human Factors

• Interaction design, industrial design of wearable systems
• Human factors, acceptance, ergonomics
• User modeling, user evaluation, usability engineering, user experience design
• Systems and designs for combining wearable and pervasive/ubiquitous computing
• Explicit and implicit interfaces, including hands-free approaches, speech-based interaction, sensory augmentation, haptics, and context-aware interfaces
• Societal implications, health risk, environmental and privacy issues
• Wearable technology for social-network computing, visualization and augmentation

Applications of wearables

• Wearables in consumer markets and for entertainment
• Wearables in the industry, in manufacturing, in offices, for the mobile worker, in construction
• Wearables for teaching and education
• Environmental sciences, urbanism, and architecture
• Wearables and smart-clothing in medicine, wellness, health-care, to support disabilities, and enable the elderly
• Wearables enabling ambient assisted living
• Wearables in psychology, social sciences
• Human-robot interactions
• Wearables in culture, fashion and the arts, sports and music
• Wearables in crowds, wearables sensing and influencing collective behaviors
• Integrating wearables into larger systems, such as augmented reality systems, training systems and systems designed to support collaborative work
• Studies based on large cell phone deployments

EyeWear Computing (special category)

• Cutting edge HMD devices, novel optical design methods Eyewear mounted sensors, actuator systems, impact studies
• Input/output devices and Interaction design for eyewear based systems, enabling applications
• Eyewear computing for healthcare
• Human factors issues with, and ergonomics of, eyewear systems