WristSense 2018: Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications Using Wrist Worn Smart Devices.
(Co-located with IEEE PerCom at Athens, Greece, March 19-23, 2018)
Important Dates
Workshop paper submissions: ***Extended to November 18, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth)***
Paper notification date:***Delayed to December 26, 2017 due to holidays, Apologies for the inconvenience***
Camera ready: January 12, 2018
Author registration: January 12, 2018
Workshop date: March 19, 2018 (Monday)
Recently there has been a growing interest in consumerization of wrist-worn devices especially smart watches and wrist bands. Many large corporations such as Apple and Samsung already have a commodity smart watch and many other companies such as FitBit, Nike, Jawbone have wristbands geared towards fitness tracking. Smart-watches and bands are equipped with many sensors, (for example, latest Samsung Gear devices have heart rate, accelerometer, gyroscope, infrared sensors etc.) a processor, communication radios (for example, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi) and a small size display. It is, therefore, possible to capture information about the device user, perform computation and communication using these devices to infer various activities/contexts of the user. Further, they also represent a perfect platform to conduct research on human activity, behavior, and related areas, given the capabilities described above. Moreover, compared to smartphones, wrist-worn smart devices provide richer information about certain user activities (e.g., eating, typing, and sleeping). In most cases, a smart-watch is also connected to a powerful smartphone, which could help in drawing many interesting inferences by combining data from both these devices.
NIH/NSF Panelists Join the Discussion Regarding How to Establish Objective Gold Standard Measurements for Health Constructs:
Due to participants' increased willingness to wear wrist-worn sensors, the wrist remains a major contender for tackling problems related to health and medicine. Currently physical and sedentary activity are the only constructs with acceptable gold standard passive sensing measures (e.g. Actigraph measuring MVPA and Actipal measuring types of sedentary activity). We aim to begin the discussion to change that. We have put together a unique panel discussion comprising key individuals across agencies such as National Institutes for Health / National Science Foundation in the U.S. and European Research Council / European Science Foundation in Europe surrounding "Defining Objective Gold Standard Measures for Health Outcomes." Our goal is to engage the research community in this important discussion, and perhaps identify a vision moving forward for technologist, behaviorist, engineers, and mHealth specialist.
We invite paper submissions in the following areas:
· Design, implementation, and evaluation of systems using wrist-based smart devices.
· Design and implementation of pervasive applications for wrist-worn smart devices and/or smartphones.
· Description of experiences in data collection and deployments using wrist-worn devices and/or smartphones.
· Feedback, notifications, and alerts using wrist-worn smart devices.
· User behavior analysis on data collected from wrist device and/or smartphones.
· User activity and context recognition using wrist-worn smart devices.
· Achieving energy efficiency and extending battery life of wearable devices.
· Efficient communication between wearable devices and smartphones.
· Privacy aspects related to data collection from wearable wrist-worn devices.
· Establishing wrist-worn based gold standard measures for health-related constructs.
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must be original contributions that are unpublished and are not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers should be no more than 6 pages in length and must adhere to IEEE PerCom workshop format (2-column, 10pt font), including references, figures and tables.
Formatting guidelines: IEEE Computer Society 8.5" x 11" authors kit
Submission site: WristSense2018@EDAS
Email: wristsenseworkshops@gmail.com
Apple Student Travel Scholarships
This year Apple is funding travel scholarships of $500 each for two student presenters at WristSense'18.
Apple Best Paper Award
The Apple award will be given to the best paper presented at the workshop to acknowledge and encourage excellence in research. The awardee will be presented with a certificate and an Apple watch at the workshop.
