WristSense 2021: Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications Using Wrist Worn Smart Devices.

(Co-located with IEEE PerCom at Kassel, Germany, March 22-26, 2021)


Program

Session 1: 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM CET : Keynote

Title: Long-term Affect and Activity Assessment on the Wrist

Speaker: Dr. Kristof Van Laerhoven (University of Siegen)

Abstract: As inertial sensors have matured and sensors that pick up the wearer’s vital signs are steadily improving, I will focus in this talk on the underlying information that can be deduced from the vast array of sensor signals that is currently embedded in the latest generations of smartwatches. Especially the fact that smartwatches allow the long-term and continuous monitoring of their wearer's state opens up a plethora of medical applications. Through examples from recent studies, where wristwatches can spot epileptic seizures, stress, smoking episodes, sleep, and activity, I will try to illustrate why more future users will not want to put their watches off.

Speaker short bio: Kristof Van Laerhoven is full Professor for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Siegen (Germany) and researches systems that combine wirelessly connected and wearable sensors with embedded machine learning techniques. Previously, he was Professor for Embedded Systems at the University of Freiburg, and has led the Embedded Sensing Systems Research Group at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He obtained his PhD at the University of Lancaster (UK) and studied Computer Science at the University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium. He co-chaired the UbiComp/ISWC conference last year, is Associate Editor for the ACM IMWUT journal, and heads the wearables department of the IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine. More info on: http://ubicomp.eti.uni-siegen.de


Session 2: 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM CET : Activity and Gesture Recognition

  1. 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM CET - Towards Putting Deep Learning on the Wrist for Accurate Human Activity Recognition.
    Shrehal Bohra (BITS-Pilani Goa and Natunix Technologies); Vinayak Naik (BITS-Pilani Goa); Varun Yeligar (BITS-Pilani Goa).

  2. 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM CET - Quaterni-On: Calibration-free Matching of Wearable IMU Data to Joint Estimates of Ambient Cameras. Jochen Kempfle (University of Siegen); Kristof Van Laerhoven (University of Siegen).

  3. 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM CET - Rock beats Scissor: SVM based gesture recognition with data gloves.
    Philipp Achenbach (TU Darmstadt); Philipp N Müller (TU Darmstadt); Tobias Wach (TU Darmstadt); Thomas Tregel (TU Darmstadt); Stefan Göbel (TU Darmstadt).


Session 3: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM CET : Wellness and Digital Health

  1. 1:00 PM to 1:30 PM CET - WristO2: Reliable Peripheral Oxygen Saturation Readings from Wrist-Worn Pulse Oximeters
    Caleb Phillips (University of Toronto); Daniyal Liaqat (University of Toronto); Moshe Gabel (University of Toronto); Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto).

  2. 1:30 PM to 2:00 PM CET - Digital Biomarkers: Using Smartwatch Data For Clinically Relevant Outcomes
    Karan Bhavsar (TCS, India); Shivam Singhal (TCS, India); Vivek Chandel (TCS, India); Avijit Samal (TCS, India); Sundeep Khandelwal (TCS, India); Nasimuddin Ahmed (TCS, India); Avik Ghose (TCS, India).

  3. 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM CET - Exploring Epileptic Seizure Prediction with Commercial Smartwatches
    Theresa Tobollik     (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) ; Sujay Shalawadi (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar); Christopher Getschmann (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar); Florian Echtler (Aalborg University).


Session 4: 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM CET : Novel Applications

  1. 2:30 PM to 3:00 PM CET - Task-Based Continuous Authentication Using Wrist-Worn Devices
    Zaire Ali (Temple University); Jamie Payton (Temple University)

  2. 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM CET - Do partner apps offer the same level of privacy protection? The case of wearable applications
    Andrei Kazlouski (University o    f Crete); Thomas Marchioro (ICS-FORTH); Charalampos Manifavas (ICS-FORTH); Evangelos Markatos (ICS-FORTH)


Session 5: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM CET : The 4th WristSense Panel Discussion

TBA