Topics include:

• Wearable Systems, Novel Devices and Form Factors
• Smartphone- and smartwatch-based systems and applications
• Glasses
• Earables
• Rings and Gloves
• Wearable equipment for specialized applications and professions
• Exoskeletons and physical strength augmentation
• Enabling Technologies
• Displays, mobile augmented reality optics (freeform optics, light-guides, holographic and diffractive approaches)
• Haptics and actuators
• Novel sensor technologies enabling and enhancing context-aware sensing, including but not limited to:
• Sensing the body (movement, behavior, physiology)
• Sensing the eye (gaze, patterns of looking, eye-computer interaction)
• Sensing the brain (wearable fNIRS, EEG, brain-computer interfaces)
• Wearable sensor networks
• Manufacturing of wearable technologies
• Wearable technology toolkits
• Power sources and management, thermal management
• Textiles and Clothing
• E-textiles, advanced textiles, and clothing-based wearables
• Functional clothing and non-electronic wearable technologies
• Novel materials for textiles and clothing
• On-Skin and Implantable Interfaces
• On-skin technology and interfaces
• Implantable, insertable technology and interfaces
• Unconventional materials and form factors for close-body devices
• Biotechnology and HCI
• Microfluidics for on-skin interfaces
• Design Process for Wearables
• Research through design
• Craft and computing for wearables
• Culturally-sensitive design processes
• Design and conceptual innovation in wearables
• From basic research to commercial product
• Information and Data
• Machine learning, and artificial intelligence for wearables
• Data augmentation, big data, crowd-sourcing, fusion of online data & sensors
• Datasets and performance evaluation
• Individual activity recognition, behavior analysis, context recognition, skill assessment
• Social, team and group activity and context recognition, skill assessment
• Exploratory domain mapping and feature identification/extraction, ontologies for wearable applications
• Novel processing approaches beyond “machine learning”, bio-inspired approaches, cognitively-inspired architectures, towards human-like perception
• Computationally efficient processing (memory, energy), architecture optimization
• Human/Device Interaction
• Human factors and HCI of wearables, wearability, interaction design
• Anthropometrics and fit
• Social interactions and impacts
• Social perception and acceptance towards wearable devices
• Human augmentation and portable environments
• Human-robot interaction
• Human/environmental/economic impacts, long-term effects, and future of wearable technologies, ethics and privacy
• Applications
• Health and wellness, mental health and therapy, rehabilitation
• Leisure and entertainment, including sports, tourism, games
• Virtual, mixed and augmented reality
• The future of work, including; industrial applications, supporting physical, cognitive, and collaborative work
• Extreme environments, including: outer space, underwater environments
• Research on behavior, psychology, and cognition
• Art and fashion; theatre and performance
• Education and training
• Biometrics and security
• Wearables and smart cities
• Markets and consumer behavior in wearables