Past ISWCs

    • ISWC 2013 (Zurich)
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    • 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)

    • ISWC 2012 (Newcastle)
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    • 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)
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    • 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)
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    • 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)
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    • 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)
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    • 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)
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    • 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)
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    • 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)
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    • 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