The 19th International Symposium on Wearable Computers

The International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) is a conference dedicated to cutting-edge research in wearable technologies, and is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. Every year, ISWC brings together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. ISWC is scheduled to include dedicated workshops, a juried design competition, a lively gadget show, and high-quality paper presentation sessions revealing the latest in wearable computing progress.

ISWC 2015 will be held at Knowledge Capital Congrès Convention Center, inside Grand Front Osaka, and is collocated with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'15).

 

  • Past ISWCs
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    • ISWC 2013 (Zurich)
    • Website
    • Proceedings
    • Best Paper Winner and Nominees:
      • FIDO - Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations: Wearable Dog-Activated Interfaces Melody Jackson, Thad Starner, and Clint Zeagler
      • Confidence-based Multiclass AdaBoost for Physical Activity Monitoring Attila Reiss, Gustaf Hendeby, and Didier Stricker
      • Conductive Rubber Electrodes for Earphone-Based Eye Gesture Input Interface Hiroyuki Manabe, Masaaki Fukumoto, and Tohru Yagi
      • ThermOn -- Thermo-musical Interface for an Enhanced Emotional Experience Shimon Akiyama, Katsunari Sato, Yasutoshi Makino, Takashi Maeno
      • Improved ActionSLAM for long-term indoor tracking with wearable motion sensors Michael Hardegger, Daniel Roggen, and Gerhard Troester

      Best Reviewers: Julia Seiter (ETH Zurich, CH), Nils Hammerla (Newcastle University, UK), Paul Holleis (DOCOMO Euro-Labs, D), Jens Weppner (DFKI, DE), and Charlotte Magnusson (Lund University, SE)

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    • ISWC 2012 (Newcastle)
    • Website
    • Proceedings
    • Best Paper Winner and Nominees:
      • Airwriting: Hands-free mobile text input by spotting and continuous recognition of 3d-space handwriting with inertial sensors Christoph Amma, Marcus Georgi, Tanja Schultz
      • Energy-Efficient Continuous Activity Recognition on Mobile Phones: An Activity-Adaptive Approach Zhixian Yan, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Archan Misra, Karl Aberer
      • Extracting Mobile Behavioral Patterns with the Distant N-Gram Topic Model Katayoun Farrahi, Daniel Gatica-Perez
      • Energy-Efficient Activity Recognition using Prediction (HONORABLE MENTION) Dawud Gordon, Jürgen Czerny, Takashi Miyaki, Michael Beigl
    • ISWC 2011 (San Francisco)
    • Website
    • Proceedings
    • Best Paper Winner and Nominees:
      • GroupUs: Smartphone Proximity Data and Human Interaction Type Mining Trinh Minh Tri Do, Daniel Gatica-Perez
      • Who's Who with Big-Five: Analyzing and Classifying Personality Traits with Smartphones Gokul Chittaranjan, Jan Blom, Daniel Gatica-Perez
      • An interdisciplinary undergraduate design course for wearable and pervasive computing products Thomas Martin, Kahyun Kim, Jason Forsyth, Lisa McNair, Eloise Coupey, Ed Dorsa
      • Unsupervised adaptation to on-body sensor displacement in acceleration-based activity recognition Hamidreza Bayati, José del R. Millán, Ricardo Chavarriaga
      • Unsupervised Activity Recognition with User's Physical Characteristics Data Takuya Maekawa, Shinji Watanabe
    • ISWC 2010 (Seoul)
    • Website
    • Proceedings
    • Best Paper Winner and Nominees:
      • Weaving Integrated Circuits into Textiles. Christoph Zysset, Kunigunde Cherenack, Thomas Kinkeldei, Gerhard Tröster
      • A Novel Micro-Vibration Sensor for Activity Recognition: Potential and Limitations. Dawud Gordon, Georg Von Zengen, Hedda Schmidtke, Michael Beigl
      • ActiServ: Activity Recognition Service for Mobile Phones. Martin Berchtold, Matthias Budde, Dawud Gordon, Hedda Schmidtke, Michael Beigl
      • Le Festin: Shop Sign Assisted Food Recommendation System. I-Chun Liu, I-Chun Chen, Ming-Syan Chen
      • The Textile Interface Swatchbook: Creating Graphical User Interface-like Widgets with Conductive Embroidery. Scott Gilliland, Nicholas Komor, Thad Starner, Clint Zeagler
    • ISWC 2009 (Linz)
    • Website
    • Proceedings
    • Best Paper Winner and Nominees:
      • Multi-Graph Based Semi-Supervised Learning for Activity Recognition. Maja Stikic, Diane Larlus, Bernt Schiele
      • Clinical Implementation of a Head-Mounted Display of Patient Vital Signs. David Liu, Simon Jenkins, Penelope Sanderson
    • ISWC 2008 (Pittsburgh)
    • Website
    • Proceedings
    • Best Paper Winner and Nominees:
      • Video-rate Localization in Multiple Maps for Wearable Augmented Reality. Robert Castle, Georg Klein, and David W. Murray
      • Adapting Magnetic Resonant Coupling Based Relative Positioning Technology for Wearable Activity Recognition. Gerald Pirkl, Karl Stockinger, Kai Kunze, and Paul Lukowicz
      • Using a complex Multi-modal On-body Sensor System for Activity Spotting. Georg Ogris, Thomas Stiefmeier, Paul Lukowicz, and Gerhard Tröster
      • PowerPACK: A Wireless Power Distribution System for Wearable Devices. Travis Deyle and Matthew Reynolds
    • ISWC 2007 (Boston)
    • Website
    • Proceedings
    • Best Paper Winner and Nominees:
      • Recognizing Upper Body Postures using Textile Strain Sensors. Corinne Mattmann, Oliver Amft, Holger Harms, Gerhard Tröster, and Frank Clemens
      • Handy AR: Markerless Inspection of Augmented Reality Objects Using Fingertip Tracking. T. Lee and Tobias Höllerer
      • Hambone: A Bio-Acoustic Gesture Interface. Travis Deyle, Szabolcs Palinko, Erika S. Poole and Thad Starner
    • ISWC 2006 (Montreux)
    • Website
    • Proceedings
    • Best Paper Winner and Nominees:
      • A Construction Kit for Electronic Textiles. Leah Buechley
      • Discovering Characteristic Actions from On-Body Sensor Data. David Minnen, Thad Starner, Irfan Essa and Charles Isbell
      • Evaluation of an Eyes-Free Cursorless Numeric Entry System for Wearable Computers. Gábor Blaskó and Steven Feiner
      • Assessing the Wearability of Wearable Computers. James F. Knight, Daniel Deen-Williams, Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Chris Baber, Sofoklis Sotiriou, Stamatina Anastopoulou and Michael Gargalakos
    • ISWC 2005 (Osaka)
    • Website
    • Proceedings
    • Best Paper Winner and Nominees:
      • Fine-Grained Activity Recognition by Aggregating Abstract Object Usage. Donald Patterson, Dieter Fox, Henry Kautz and Matthai Philipose
      • ReachMedia: On-the-move interaction with everyday objects. Assaf Feldman, Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, Sajid Sadi, Pattie Maes and Chris Schmandt
      • A Design Process for the Development of Innovative Smart Clothing that Addresses End-User Needs from Technical, Functional, Aesthetic and Cultural View Points Jane McCann, Richard Hurford and Adam Martin
      • Pictorial Depth Cues for Outdoor Augmented Reality. Jason Wither and Tobias Höllerer
      • A Body-mounted Camera System for Capturing User-view Images without Head-mounted Camera. Hirotake Yamazoe, Akira Utsumi and Kenichi Hosaka
      • The Impacts of Limited Visual Feedback on Mobile Text Entry for the Twiddler and Mini-QWERTY Keyboard. James Clawson, Kent Lyons, Thad Starner and Edward Clarkson