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Important Dates:
| Early Registration Deadline : | September 21 |
| Conference: | Sept
28 - Oct 1 |
ISWC 2008 Advance Program:
Sunday September 28, 2008
| 12:30pm | Registration Opens |
| 1:00- 5:00 |
Doctoral Colloquium |
Monday September 29, 2008
| 8:00am | Registration Opens |
9:30- |
Opening Ceremony |
| 10:00- 11:00 |
Keynote 1: Marcel Just, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 11:00- 11:30 |
Break |
| 11:30- 12:30pm |
Session 1: Location Mapping |
| 12:30- 2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00- 3:30 |
Session 2: Mobile Phones and Human Interfaces |
| 3:30- 4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00- 5:00 |
Session 3: Activity Recognition |
| 6:00- 8:00 |
Reception and Demos (at CMU Entertainment Technology Center) |
Tuesday September 30, 2008
| 8:00am | Registration Opens |
9:00- |
Keynote 2: Rory Cooper, University of Pittsburgh |
| 10:00- 10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30- 11:30 |
Session 4: Activity Support |
| 11:30- 12:30pm |
Panel |
| 12:30- 2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00- 2:30 |
Gadget Show and One Minute Madness |
| 2:30- 4:00 |
Posters, Demos, and Juried Exhibition |
| 3:30- 4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00- 4:40 |
Session 5: Power and System Integration |
| 4:40- 5:00 |
Best Paper and Juried Exhibition Awards and Closing (ISWC'09) |
| 5:00- 6:00 |
Business Meeting |
| 5:30- 7:00 |
Tour of BodyMedia, Inc |
Wednesday October 1, 2008
| 8:00am | Registration Opens |
| 8:30- 12:00pm |
Workshops/Tutorials |
| 12:00- 1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:30- 5:00 |
Workshops/Tutorials |
Monday, Sept 29th 11:30-12:30am Session 1: Location Mapping
HeadSLAM - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Head-Mounted Inertial and Laser Range Sensors
- Burcu Cinaz, Holger Kenn
Localization and 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes Using GPS
- Kihwan Kim, Jay Summet, Thad Starner, Daniel Ashbrook, Mrunal Kapade, Irfan Essa
Video-rate Localization in Multiple Maps for Wearable Augmented Reality
- Robert Castle, Georg Klein, David Murray
Monday, Sept 29th 2:00-3:20pm Session 2: Mobile Phones and Human Interfaces
Using Mobile Phones to Determine Transportation Mode
- Sasank Reddy, Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin, Mark Hansen, Mani Srivastava
Discovering Human Routines from Cell Phone Data with Topic Models
- Katayoun Farrahi, Daniel Gatica-Perez
A new Approach to Enable Gesture Recognition in Continuous Data Streams
- Andreas Zinnen, Bernt Schiele
PianoTouch: A Wearable Haptic Piano Instruction System For Passive Learning of Piano Skills
- Kevin Huang, Ellen Do, Thad Starner
Monday, Sept 29th 4:00-5:00pm Session 3: Activity Recognition
Adapting Magnetic Resonant Coupling Based Relative Positioning Technology for Wearable Activity Recogniton
- Gerald Pirkl, Karl Stockinger, Kai Kunze, Paul Lukowicz
Using a complex Multi-modal On-body Sensor System for Activity Spotting
- Georg Ogris, Thomas Stiefmeier, Paul Lukowicz, Gerhard Troster
Using Rhythm Awareness in Long-Term Activity Recognition
- Kristof Van Laerhoven, David Kilian and Bernt Schiele
Tuesday, Sept 30th 10:30-11:30am Session 4: Activity Support
Sustained Logging and Discrimination of Sleep Postures with Low-Level, Wrist-Worn Sensor
- Kristof Van Laerhoven, Marko Borazio, David Kilian and Bernt Schiele
Towards a Virtual Coach for manual wheelchair users
- Brian French, Divya Tyamagundlu, Daniel Siewiorek, Asim Smailagic, Dan Ding
Exploring Semi-Supervised and Active Learning for Activity Recognition
- Maja Stikic, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Bernt Schiele
Tuesday, Sept 30th 2:30-4:00pm Poster Session
Lightweight Hand and Arm Tracking for Mobile Augmented Reality
- Ross Smith, Benjamin Avery, Bruce Thomas
Wearable Experience Capture for People with Episodic Memory Impairment
- Matthew Lee, Anind Dey
Rapid Prototyping for Wearable Computing
- Daniel Spelmezan, Adalbert Schanowski, Jan Borchers
Scheming Textiles: End-user Programming for Wearables
- Nwanua Elumeze, Michael Eisenberg
AstroWheelie: A wheelchair based exercise game
- Stephen Cuzzort, Thad Starner
Stop Burdening Your Eyes: A Wearable Electro-Tactile Display
- Seungyon Lee, Thad Starner
Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk
- Hélène Day-Fraser, Sidney Fels, Robert Pritchard
Wearable Context-Aware Calorie Estimation for Nutrition Monitoring
- Geeta Shroff, Asim Smailagic, Daniel Siewiorek
Suggestion for Optimal Location of Textile-based ECG Electrodes on an Elastic Shirts Considering Clothing Pressure of the Shirt
- Moonsoo Sung, Keesam Jeong, Gilsso Cho
Tuesday, Sept 30th 3:30-4:30pm Session 5: Power and System Integration
PowerPACK: A Wireless Power Distribution System for Wearable Devices
- Travis Deyle, Matthew Reynolds
SwitchR: Reducing System Power Consumption in a Multi-Client Multi-Radio Environment
- Yuvraj Agarwal, Trevor Pering, Roy Want, Rajesh Gupta
Tuesday, Sept 30th 5:30-7:00pm Tour of BodyMedia
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