First International Workshop on 

Smart Eyewear for Pervasive Health and Well-Being (SEPH)

OVERVIEW

Smart eyewear is rapidly emerging as a new platform for pervasive computing, offering a unique combination of always-available sensing, first-person perception, and seamless integration into everyday life. Beyond communication and interaction, smart eyewear is becoming increasingly relevant for health monitoring and well-being applications, enabling continuous and context-aware observation of physiological, behavioral, and environmental signals in naturalistic settings. 

Potential applications range from stress, fatigue, and cognitive-load assessment to contextual health inference, behavioral monitoring, assistive feedback, and broader support for everyday well-being. At the same time, translating these opportunities into practical systems remains challenging. Smart eyewear must satisfy strict constraints on form factor, energy consumption, thermal dissipation, weight, long-term comfort, and social acceptability, while also addressing human safety, privacy, ethics, trust, transparency, and responsible data governance. Because these devices operate in close proximity to the eyes, face, and head, they raise particularly important questions around non-invasiveness, audio- and vision-based data capture, user consent, and the safe and responsible deployment of sensing technologies in daily life. 

These challenges call for advances not only in applications, but also in the enabling hardware and system design needed to support them, including low-power embedded architectures, multimodal sensor integration, compact and safe sensing modalities, on-device and edge intelligence, privacy-aware processing, and robust real-world evaluation methodologies. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working on smart eyewear as a platform for pervasive health monitoring and well-being applications, explicitly welcoming both application- and hardware-oriented perspectives. By focusing on the interplay between use cases and enabling technologies, the workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary discussion, connect communities that do not always interact directly, and help shape a research agenda for next-generation smart-eyewear systems for health and well-being. 

See you at UbiComp / International Symposium on Wearable Computing 2026

October 11 - 12 2026, Shanghai, China