Advance Program

IEEE Second International Symposium on Wearable Computers
http://iswc.gatech.edu/

October 19 - 20, 1998
Sheraton Station Square
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  USA

The International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) brings together
researchers, product vendors, research sponsors, and other interested
persons to share information and advances in wearable computing.  The
conference will include presentations, exhibitions, and poster sessions.

SCHEDULED INVITED SPEAKERS

 Dado Vrsalvic, Senior Vice President, AT&T, speaking on "GeoPlex"
 Marshall Linder, Lifecor, speaking on "Wearable Defibrillators"
 Lt Col Bob Serino, speaking on "The Army Soldier Project"
 Carl Waldspurger, DEC, speaking on "The ITSY Processor"
 Dave Akin, Univ. of Md., speaking on "The Design of Astronauts' Spacesuits"

THE GADGET SHOW

A unique event to ISWC is the populist "Gadget Show" -- all attendees will
be invited to spend 90 seconds describing any gadget they've brought with
them, followed by a breakout session for more detailed show-and-tell.

PAPERS

 Preliminary Study of Wearable Computers for Aviation Inspection
 Jennifer J. Ockerman, Amy R. Pritchett

 Adtranz: A Mobile Computing System for Mainteneance and Collaboration
 Dan Siewiorek, Asim Smailagic, Len Bass, Richard Martin

 Context-Aware, Adaptive Wearable Computers as Remote Interfaces to
Intelligent Environments
 Gerd Kortuem, Zary Segall, Martin Bauer

 A Wearable Collaborative System with Remote Sensing
 Martin Bauer, Timo Heimer, Gerd Kortuem, Zary Segall

 Augmentable Reality:  Situated Communication through Digital and Physical
Spaces
 Jun Rekimoto, Yuji Ayatsuka, Kazuteru Hayashi

 A Wearable Spatial Conferencing Space
 M. Billinghurst, J. Bowskill, M. Jessop, J. Morphett

 Adding Generic Contextual Capabilities to Wearable Computers
 Jason Pascoe

 Dealing with Speed and Robustness Issues for Video-Based Registration
 Li-Te Cheng, John Robinson

 Design for Wearability
 Francine Gemperle, Chris Kasabach, John Stivoric, Richard Martin

 Personal Imaging Systems for long-term use in wearable tetherless
computer-mediated reality
 Steve Mann

 Parasitic Power Harvesting in Shoes
 John Kymissis, Clyde Kendall, Joseph Paradiso, Neil Gershenfeld,

 Speaking and Listening on the Run:  Design for Wearable Audio Computing
 Nitin Sawhney, Chris Schmandt

 StartleCam:  A Cybernetic Wearable Camera
 J. Healey, R. W. Picard

 Visual Context Sensing in Wearable Computing
 Thad Starner, Bernt Schiele, Alex Pentland

 Development of a Commercially Successful Wearable Data Collection System
 Steven Ferrero, Margaret Hetfield, Mark Krichever, Alan Quinn, Robert Stein

 A Heat Dissipation Tutorial for Wearable Computers
 Thad Starner

 Handheld and Bodyworn Graphical Displays
 Steven A. Lewis, Gary D. Havey, Brian Hanzal

POSTERS

In addition to the presented papers, there will be poster session for other
ongoing work in the field.  Posters will be presented for:

 Extracting Context from Environmental Audio
 Brian Clarkson, Alex Pentland

 Dynamic Connection of Wearable Computers to Companion Devices Using
Near-Field Radio Devices
 Phillip Neaves, James Bedford-Roberts

 A Novel Method for Bend and Force Sensing on a Wearable Computer
 Aaron Toney, M. Billinghurst

 A Wearable Computer for Bridge Inspectors
 James H. Garret, Jr., Daniel P. Siewiorek, Asim Smailagic

 Bioelectric Control of a Two Dimensional Pointer
 Robert Rosenberg

 A Wearable Haptic Navigation Guidance System
 Sevgi Ertan, Clare Lee, Abby Willets, Hong Tan, Sandy Pentland

 The People Sensor:  A Mobility Aid for the Visually Impaired
 Sunita Ram, Jennie Sharf

 A Wear-Comp System w/Augmented Reality to Supp Terrestrial Navigation
 Bruce Thomas, Victor Demczuk, Wayne Piekarski, David Hepworth, Bernard
Gunther

 An Adaptive Multimodal Interface For Wireless Applications
 Jie Yang, William Holtz, Markus Baur, Minh Tue Vol

 Physical Limits of Portable Power Storage
 Michael Patrick Johnson

REGISTRATION

Advance registration instructions are available on the ISWC web pages,
    http://iswc.gatech.edu/
After September 28 only on-site registration will be possible.

ACCOMMODATIONS:

The conference will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA at the
Sheraton at Station Square.

     Sheraton at Station Square
     7 Station Square Drive
     Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
     Tel: (412) 261-2000 or (800) 255-7488
     Fax: (412) 261-2932

Make your room reservation before Friday, September 25th, 1998.   When you
call, be sure to mention that you want the room rate for the "International
Symposium on Wearable Computers."  You should get the following rates at
the Shearaton:

     $118 single
     $128 Double
     $143 Triple
     $158 Quad.

Here is an interactive map with driving directions is available from our
WWW site: http://iswc.gatech.edu

EXHIBITIONS

We invite you to exhibit your products, services, or research projects
during the conference.  Exhibitions will be available continuously in a
room (or rooms) near the meeting room.  Exhibitors will show their products
and distribute promotional literature to interested conference attendees.
If you are interested in being an exhibitor, please contact:

        Asim Smailagic
        Smailagic@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu
        Engineering Design Research Center
        Carnegie Mellon University
        Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
        412-268-7863
        Fax: 412-268-5229

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION... please contact our General Chair:

        Alex Pentland
        sandy@media.mit.edu
        MIT Media Laboratory
        Massachusetts Institute of Technology
        20 Ames St
        Cambridge, Ma 02139
        Telephone:  (617) 253-0369
        Fax:  (617) 253-8874

ISWC COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Program chair:
        Randy Pausch
        School of Computer Science
        Carnegie Mellon University
        5000 Forbes Avenue
        Pittsburgh, PA 15213
        pausch@cs.cmu.edu
        412/268-3579

Local arrangements/Press chair:
        Tom Martin
        tlm@isis.cs.cmu.edu
        Carnegie Mellon Univesity
        5000 Forbes Avenue
        Pittsburgh, PA 15213
        412/268-6480

Publicity co-chairs:
        Chris Thompson
        jt34@prism.gatech.edu
        Georgia Tech Research Institute
        Intelligent Machines Branch (IMB)
        MARC Bluilding Room 341
        Atlanta, GA 30332-0823
        404-894-6143

        Larry Najjar
        Georgia Institute of Technology
        gt4708d@prism.gatech.edu

Our World Wide Web page is http://iswc.gatech.edu/

Third Day Event:  A Glimpse Into the Future at Carnegie Mellon
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The future is only one bridge and 16 blocks away!

You are invited to interact with tomorrow's information
technology during a special day hosted by Al (as
in Albert Einstein) on the Carnegie Mellon campus.
A wide variety of activities and demonstration will be
included, such as:

  An interactive real time interview with virtual Albert Einstein
  A museum tour guided by a mobile, articulate robot docent at the
    Carnegie Museum of Natural History
  Conversations in foreign languages using real-time language
    translation
  Singing with a computer orchestra that follows your every lead
   change in real time
  Searching for information contained in CNN Newsbroadcasts of the
   Digital Library using oral, natural language inquiries
  Autonomous vehicles on land and in the air
  Experiencing and becoming prt of Virtual Worlds, including
   Spider Man climbing downtown Pittsburgh Skyscrapers
  Exploring over a half dozen Wearable Computers in applications from
   highway bridges to airplanes

and many more virtual and mechanical entities (both on the ground and in
the air). Details will be posted on the conference web sites as the
program is finalized.

Transportation will be provided from ISWC on Wednesday morning,
21 October 98, with busses to the airport at the close of activities.