7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Advance Program Details

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Tueday, October 21

Registration for Tutorials 8-9:30am (Pool patio area)

Tutorials Tuesday Morning 9:30-12:45pm, Break 11-11:15am

• Making Computers Wearable
  S. Watkins and L. Dunne (Briarcliff 1)
• Introduction to Wearable Computing
  T. Starner and B. Rhodes (Briarcliff 2)

Lunch 12:45-1:30pm (Pool patio area for IEEE ISWC Tutorial attendees)

Tutorials Tuesday Afternoon 1:30-4:45pm, Break 3-3:15pm

• Experimental Design for Wearable Computing
  V. Corey and R. DeVaul (Briarcliff 1)
• Wearable Computers for Persons with Disabilities
  M. Gandy (Briarcliff 2)

Wednesday, October 22

Continental Breakfast Wednesday 7-8:30am, Pool patio area

Registration, Wednesday 7:45-Noon

Keynote Wednesday 8:45-9:45am

• Utilizing Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Human Disease:
  Changing Abnormal Brain Conversation
  Michael S. Okun
  Co-Director Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center
  University of Florida
  Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
  McKnight Brain Institute

Break and Vendor Exhibits Wednesday 9:45-10:15am, Pool patio area

Infrastructure Wednesday 10:15-11:35am
Session Chair: Dan Siewiorek

• MIThril 2003: Applications and Architecture
  R. DeVaul, M. Sung, J. Gips, and A. Pentland
• SoundButton: Design of a Low Power Wearable Audio Classification System
  M. Stäger, P. Lukowicz, N. Perera, T. von Büren, G. Tröster, and T. Starner
• Runtime Support for a Dynamically Composable and Adaptive Wearable System
  S. Lalis, A. Karypidis, A. Savidis, and C. Stephanidis
• Kinetic Energy Powered Computing - an Experimental Feasibility Study
  T. von Büren, P. Lukowicz, and G. Tröster

Lunch Wednesday 11:35am-12:45pm, Ballroom II

User Interfaces Wednesday 12:45-2:30pm
Session Chair: Brad Rhodes

• Self-contained Spatial Input Device for Wearable Computers
  W. Bang, W. Chang, K. Kang, E. Choi, A. Potanin, and D. Kim
• A Shoulder Pad Insert Vibrotactile Display
  A. Toney, L. Dunne, B. Thomas, and S. Ashdown
• Using Multiple Sensors for Mobile Sign Language Recognition
  H. Brashear, T. Starner, P. Lukowicz, and H. Junker
• WACL: Supporting Telecommunications Using Wearable Active Camera with Laser Pointer
  N. Sakata, T. Kurata, T. Kato, M. Kourogi, and H. Kuzuoka
• Effects of Functionality on Perceived Comfort of Wearables
  K. Bodine and F. Gemperle

Break and Vendor Exhibits Wednesday 2:30-3:00pm, Pool patio area

Indoor Tracking Wednesday 3:00-4:15pm
Session Chair: Tobias Höllerer

• Autocalibration Algorithm for Ultrasonic Location Systems
  P. Duff and H. Muller
• Coarse, Inexpensive, Infrared Tracking for Wearable Computing
  D. Hallaway, T. Höllerer, and S. Feiner
• RF Free Ultrasonic Positioning
  M. McCarthy and H. Muller

Restroom Break Wednesday 4:15-4:30pm

Biosensors Wednesday 4:30-5:20pm
Session Chair: Jen Healey

• Unsupervised, Dynamic Identification of Physiological and Activity Context in Wearable Computing
  A. Krause, D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, and J. Farringdon
• Bioimpedance Measurement System for Smart Clothing
  T. Vuorela, K. Kukkonen, J. Rantanen, T. Järvinen, and J. Vanhala

Reception Wednesday 6-9pm

A conference bus will take you from the Hotel to IBM and bring you back at the end of the evening. The buses leave the hotel between 5:30-6pm on 22 Oct. Buses will leave around 7:30pm, 8:15 pm and 9pm to bring you back to the hotel. In case you will be coming by car these directions will help. It is recommended that you take the conference bus both to avoid getting lost in the area (quite easy to do) and to make the logistics simpler.

Posters Wednesday Evening at Reception, 6-9pm

• Continuous Sensing of Gesture for Control of Audio-Visual Media
  X. Sha, G. Iachello, S. Dow, Y. Serita, T. St. Julien, and J. Fistre
• An Extended Menu Navigation Interface Using Multiple Pressure-Sensitive Strips
  G. Blasko and S. Feiner
• KeyMenu: A Keyboard Based Hierarchical Menu
  K. Lyons, N. Patel and T. Starner
• Nice2CU: Managing a Person's Augmented Memory
  T. Kawamura, Y. Kono, and M. Kidode
• PadNET: Wearable Physical Activity Detection Network
  H. Junker, P. Lukowicz, and G. Tröster
• Peer-To-Peer Policy Management System for Wearable Mobile Devices
  M. Massimi and U. Wolz
• SenSay: A Context-Aware Mobile Phone
  D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, J. Furukawa, A. Krause, N. Moraveji, K. Reiger, J. Shaffer, and F. Wong
• Teaching Agents for Wearable Augmented Reality Systems
  T. Sephton
• Using Gravity to Estimate Accelerometer Orientation
  D. Mizell
• Wearable Alertness Monitoring for Industrial Applications
  G. Kaefer, G. Prochart, and R. Weiss
• Wearables in the Workplace: Sensing Interactions at the Office
  N. Eagle and A. Pentland
• Network Obsession
  M. Dahlström

Demos Wednesday Evening at Reception, 6-9pm

• The mobile phone can be used as the hearing aid?
  T. Oba
• Fashionable Technology: SlopeStyle
  A. Lewis
• Motes-Based Softwear Instruments: Continuous Sensing of Gesture for Control of Audio-Visual Media
  G. Iachello
• AR Teaching Agents
  T. Sephton
• Shoulder pad insert vibrotactile
  B. Thomas
• MIThril 2003: Applications and Architecture
  R. DeVaul
• First Steps Towards Handheld Augmented Reality
  D. Wagner
• Using Multiple Sensors for Mobile Sign Language Recognition
  H. Brashear
• Network Obsession
  M. Dahlström
• Sociometer
  T. Choudhury
• PadNET: Wearable Physical Activity Detection Network
  H. Junker

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Thursday, October 23

Continental Breakfast Thursday 7-8:30am, Pool patio area

Registration, Thursday 8:00-10:00am

Augmented Reality Thursday 8:30-9:45am
Session Chair: Bruce Thomas

• A Wearable Augmented Reality System Using Positioning Infrastructures and a Pedometer
  R. Tenmoku, M. Kanbara, and N. Yokoya
• Authoring 3D Hypermedia for Wearable Augmented and Virtual Reality
  S. Güven and S. Feiner
• First Steps Towards Handheld Augmented Reality
  D. Wagner and D. Schmalstieg

Break and Vendor Exhibits Thursday 9:45-10:15am, Pool patio area

Music, Memory, and Annotation Thursday 10:15-11:45am
Session Chair: Yohan Baillot

• The Memory Glasses: Subliminal vs.Overt Memory Support with Imperfect Information
  R. DeVaul, A. Pentland, and V. Corey
• Layered Annotations of Digital Images for Data Collection in the Field
  J. Cross, C. Baber, and S. Woolley
• A Wearable Networked MP3 Player and "Turntable" for Collaborative Scratching
  M. Hans and M. Smith
• Sonic City: Prototyping a Wearable Experience
  R. Mazé and M. Jacobs

Lunch Thursday 11:45am-12:45pm, Ballroom II

Gadget Show Thurday 12:45-1:30pm

Inertial Sensors and Dead Reckoning Thursday 1:30-2:35pm
Session Chair: David Mizell

• Personal Position Measurement Using Dead Reckoning
  C. Randell, C. Djiallis, and H. Muller
• A Wearable Sense of Balance Monitoring System towards Daily Health Care Monitoring
  S. Matsushita, T. Oba, K. Otsuki, M. Toji, J. Otsuki, and K. Ogawa
• Speedy: A fall detector in a wristwatch
  T. Degen, H. Jaeckel, M. Rufer, and S. Wyss

Break and Vendor Exhibits Thursday 2:35-3:05pm, Pool patio area

Electronic Textiles Thursday 3:05-4:10pm
Session Chair: Gerhard Tröster

• Towards a design framework for wearable electronic textiles
  T. Martin, M. Jones, J. Edmison, and R. Shenoy
• Resistive Fibre-Meshed Transducers
  R. Wijesiriwardana, T. Dias, and S. Mukhopadhyay
• Technology Development for Building Flexible Silicon Functional Fibres
  T. Healy, J. Donnelly, B. O'Neill, J. Alderman, A. Mathewson, F. Clemens, J. Heiber, T. Graule, A. Ullsperger, W. Hartmann, C. Papadas, and N. Venios

Break and Vendor Exhibits Thursday 4:10-4:40pm, Pool patio area

Sensing Context Thursday 4:40-5:45pm
Session Chair: Thad Starner

• Sensing and Modeling Human Networks using the Sociometer
  T. Choudhury and A. Pentland
• ContextAware Notification for Wearable Computing
  N. Kern and B. Schiele
• Shoes as a Platform for Vision
  P. Fitzpatrick and C. Kemp