Welcome

Welcome to the website for the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers. This is the tenth year ISWC will be held, so happy birthday!

ISWC06 will be held in Montreux, Switzerland from October 11-14, and will be co-located with the nineteenth annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), which runs from October 15-18.

News

• Oct 20 2006:

  A page with supplementary material such as tutorial slides has been put up.

• Oct 20 2006:

  The winner of the Best Paper Award for ISWC 2006 was:
  • A Construction Kit for Electronic Textiles
  • Leah Buechley (University of Colorado at Boulder)
  The three other candidates for the award were:
  • Discovering Characteristic Actions from On-Body Sensor Data
  • David Minnen, Thad Starner, Irfan Essa and Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech)
  • Evaluation of an Eyes-Free Cursorless Numeric Entry System for Wearable Computers
  • Gábor Blaskó and Steven Feiner (Columbia University)
  • Assessing the Wearability of Wearable Computers
  • James F. Knight, Daniel Deen-Williams, Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Chris Baber, Sofoklis Sotiriou, Stamatina Anastopoulou and Michael Gargalakos (University of Birmingham, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, and Institute of Communication and Computer Systems)

• Oct 13 2006:

  Join the IEEE Wearable Technical Committee! Fill out this web form.

• Sep 28 2006:

  The conference hotel is now full on the night of the 11th. Please use the search information on the local page find other accomodations for that night.

• Sep 20 2006:

  If you want to register after the registration deadline, you will have to do it in person at the conference, at an increased price of 25% higher.
  Some rooms in the conference hotel have opened up for the night of the 10th; please see the local page for more information.

• Sep 19 2006:

  The fax number for the conference hotel has been updated to go directly to the person handling ISWC.

• Sep 16 2006:

  The hotels in Montreux are rapidly filling up; the local page has been updated with information on finding somewhere to stay.

• Sep 13 2006:

  The preliminary program has been updated with invited speaker information. The student colloquium proceedings are available online.

• Aug 29 2006:

  The preliminary program has been updated with author and poster information.

• Aug 23 2006:

  Registration is now open!
  The preliminary program has been updated with tutorial information.

• Aug 7 2006:

  The preliminary program has been updated with talk information.

• Aug 6 2006:

  A preliminary program has been posted. More details, including talk titles, will be posted soon.

• Jun 29 2006:

  The ISWC acceptance date has been changed to July 1, 2006.

• Jun 29 2006:

  The submission deadline for the student colloquium has been extended to July 7, 2006. The notification date for acceptance is August 4, 2006.

• Jun 27 2006:

  Information on the Wearable Computer Design Contest is now available. The prize is 1000 euros! The registration deadline is September 12, 2006. See the contest page for more information.

• May 22 2006:

  Reviewing is now taking place. If you're a reviewer, please return your reviews by June 21, 2006.

• Apr 18 2006:

  Submission deadlines are extended! The new deadlines are:
  Abstracts due April 24 at 11:59 PM EDT
  Submissions due May 1 at 11:59 PM EDT

• Apr 12 2006:

  Paper submission is now open.

• Mar 24 2006:

  About page updated with program committee member list.

• Feb 3 20056

  Local page updated with hotel, train and Montreux information.

• Jan 25 2006:

  Organizing committee information is being updated.

• Dec 17 2005:

  The draft Call for Papers has been released.