CALL FOR PAPERS

Smart eyewear is emerging as a powerful platform for pervasive computing, with growing relevance for health monitoring and wellbeing applications. From tracking stress and cognitive fatigue to providing real-time assistive feedback, the potential to revolutionize human well-being is massive but so are the challenges. 

However, unlocking this potential means overcoming uncompromising technical and design constraints: tomorrow's smart eyewear must balance heavy-duty computing with feather-light, all-day comfort, ultra-low power consumption, and total thermal safety. Beyond pure engineering, success hinges on navigating the complex ethics of user trust, social acceptability, and responsible data governance in a world of always-on vision and audio capabilities. 

Addressing these challenges requires a cross-disciplinary leap across the entire tech stack : hardware and system design, multimodal processing, edge AI, privacy-aware inference, and safe real-world deployment.

SEPH aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on smart eyewear for pervasive health and well-being, with an emphasis on the interplay between applications and enabling technologies. We explicitly welcome contributions spanning hardware, sensing, algorithms, systems, and user-centered evaluation, including audio, vision, eye tracking, inertial, and contextual sensing, as well as safe and non-invasive sensing approaches for continuous real-world use.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

• Smart eyewear for health monitoring and well-being

• Multimodal sensing on smart eyewear

• Audio- and vision-based inference for wearable health applications

• Eye tracking, motion sensing, and contextual sensing

• Low-power embedded architectures and energy-efficient processing

• On-device and edge AI for smart-eyewear systems

• Privacy-aware microphone and camera processing

• Thermal, optical, ergonomic, and safety constraints

• Ethics, trust, transparency, and responsible data governance

• Longitudinal studies, validation protocols, and field deployments

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

Submission categories include short or position papers of up to 4 pages, as well as poster and demo abstracts of 2 pages. We welcome mature research results, early-stage ideas, position papers, posters, demos, and lessons learned from real-world deployments.

Submissions will undergo a lightweight peer-review process based on relevance, originality, clarity, technical quality, and discussion potential. The workshop will be open to broader attendance, and conference participants will be welcome even without a submission. This format is intended to promote broad participation and substantial discussion in addition to paper presentation.

After the review process, all accepted submissions will be published in the UbiComp/ISWC 2026 Adjunct Proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library, subject to the conference policies and formatting instructions.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

For information regarding the template, the submission, and the link to the submission portal, please refer to the Call for Paper section on the main conference website.

BEST PAPER AWARD

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IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission deadline: July 06, 2026

• Notification of acceptance: July 27, 2026

• Camera-ready deadline: July 31, 2026

• Workshop date: October 11 or 12, 2026