ISWC 2012 - Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals

Symposium

ISWC 2012, the sixteenth annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. ISWC brings together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. ISWC 2012 explicitly aims to broaden its scope to include cell phones and cell phone applications as they have become the most successful wearable computer to date. ISWC 2012 will be held in Newcastle, UK collocated with Pervasive 2012 on 18-22 June. ISWC 2012 is hosted by Newcastle University.

Tutorials

We invite you to submit your tutorial proposal to ISWC 2012. The tutorials are introductory presentations on relevant topics to wearable computing. The aim of tutorials is, e.g., to present major topics of the symposium, to present established practices of the field and to motivate to new topics of importance. Duration of the tutorials can be half day or full day. Duration of half-day and full-day tutorials will be about 2,5 and 5 hours, respectively. The proposed tutorials should be informative and appealing to the symposium audience. The areas of interest are:

Workshops

We invite you to submit your workshop proposal to ISWC 2012. The workshops should focus on hands-on experience in relevant topics to wearable computing. The aim of workshops is to bring together experts in complementary topics of the symposium with focus on case studies and actual implementations; e.g. industry-driven projects or marketing of wearable products are welcome. Duration of the workshops should be full day. The proposed workshops should be appealing to the symposium audience. The areas of interest are:

Wearable Systems

Wearable system design, wearable displays and electronic textiles
Wearable sensors, actuators, input/output devices and power management systems
Interaction design, industrial design of wearable systems
Wearable sensor networks for sensing context-awareness, activity or cognitive state
Software and service architectures, infrastructure based as well as ad-hoc systems
Operating systems issues related to wearable computing, including issues such as dependability, fault tolerance, security, trustworthiness and power management
Networks, including wireless networks, on-body networks, and support for interaction with other wearables, pervasive and ubiquitous computing systems or the Internet
Wearables and the Cloud
Cooperative wearables, ensembles of wearable artifacts, coordination or wearables
Techniques for power management and heat dissipation, and manufacturing issues

Usability, HCI and Human Factors in Wearable Computing

Human factors issues with and ergonomics of body worn computing systems
User modeling, user evaluation, usability engineering of wearable systems
Systems and designs for combining wearable and pervasive/ubiquitous computing
Interfaces, including hands-free approaches, speech-based interaction, sensory augmentation, haptics, and human-centered robotics
Social implications, health risk, environmental and privacy issues
Wearable technology for social-network computing, visualization and augmentation
Experience design

Applications of Wearable Systems

Wearable systems in consumer, industrial, work, manufacturing, environmental, educational, medical, sports, wellness, health care and ambient assisted living domains
Wearable systems in culture, fashion and the arts
Smart clothing, for people with disabilities, and for elderly enablement
Use of wearable computers as components of larger systems, such as augmented reality systems, training systems and systems designed to support collaborative work
Wearables for entertainment
Formal evaluation of performance of wearable computer technologies, and comparisons with existing technologies

Mobile Phones as Wearables

Mobile applications designed for / delivered through cell phones
Cell phone services, cell phone designs, cell phones as personal computers
Cell phone technologies, e.g. combining short and long range radios, multimedia streaming
Extending cell phone hardware e.g. sensing, novel IO modalities, embeddings
Cell phone interaction, cooperative cell phones, grids and clouds of cell phones
Studies based on cell phone deployments (especially large scale)?

We encourage proposals, e.g. on wearable activity recognition. The presenters of accepted tutorials prepare the tutorial materials, e.g., slides or application examples and submit them to email address: iswc12.workshops@iswc.net . Organizers of accepted workshops will be contacted for submission guidelines and schedules. The tutorials and workshops will be advertised in the symposium program. The tutorial and workshop participants will be asked to register for the track sessions.

Proposals

Submit your tutorial or workshop proposals to iswc12.workshops@iswc.net. The proposals will be reviewed by the ISWC 2012 tutorials and workshops committee. On your proposal, please describe:

Tutorial or workshop title
Abstract (max. 1.500 characters)
objectives, significance, target audience
agenda
name, affiliation, e-mail address and a brief CV of the presenter / organizer
type: tutorial or workshop
duration of tutorial: full day or half day (workshops only full-day)
note on materials (e.g., slides, applications) and special room or equipment requirements

Important dates

Tutorial / workshop proposal due: 27 January 2012
Notification to tutorial and workshop proposers: 13 February 2012
Workshop calls open: 27 February 2012
Tutorial materials due: 13 April 2012
Workshop submissions due: 13 April 2012
Notification to workshop presenters: 30 April 2012

We look forward to your support in making the ISWC 2012 tutorials and workshops track an interesting event that stimulates discussion.

Tutorials and workshops co-chairs:

Juha Pärkkä, VTT, Finland
Christian Bürgy, teXXmo, Germany