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ISWC 2016 - 20th annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers

What Symposium
When 2016-09-12 to
2016-09-16
Where Heidelberg, Germany
Contact Name Michael Beigl, Paul Lukowicz (General Co-Chairs)
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Topics include:

From Mobile to Wearable

  • Wearable system design, wearable displays
  • Smart textile technologies, textile sensing and feedback
  • Wearable sensors, actuators, input/output devices
  • Hardware and software aspects of power management
  • Manufacturing aspects of wearables and smart textiles
  • Wearable sensor networks, including wireless networks, on-body networks, and support for interaction with other wearables, pervasive and ubiquitous computing systems, the Internet, communication channels, or 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
  • Smartphone services, smartphone designs, smartphones as personal wearables
  • Smartphone technologies with a wearable impact, e.g. combining devices
  • Extending smartphone hardware with sensing or novel IO modalities
  • Smartphone 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 state 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, wearability, 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 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, healthcare, to support disabilities, and to 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

  • 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

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