7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers OCTOBER 21-23, 2003 Crowne Plaza Hotel, White Plains, NY 10601 http://iswc.net !!!Advanced Registration due September 26 5pm!!! ISWC 2003, the seventh annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and all other interested parties to share information and advances in wearable computing. ISWC is a peer-reviewed, academic-style forum for the exchange of the most recent results, and the conference routinely attracts more than 300 attendees from industry, military, government, and academia. The advance program is below. Advance registration ends Sept. 26 5pm EST, and hotel rooms are being held until September 29 5pm EST. Please join us for an exciting conference! =========================================================================== Topics include: * Applications of wearable systems in consumer, industrial, medical, educational, and military domains. * Use of wearable computers as components of larger systems, such as augmented reality systems, training systems, or systems designed to support collaborative work. * Hardware, including wearable system design, input devices, wearable displays, batteries, techniques for power management and heat dissipation, industrial design, and manufacturing issues. * Software architectures, including ones that allow wearable computers to exploit surrounding infrastructure. * Human interfaces, including hands-free approaches, speech-based interaction, sensory augmentation, human-centered robotics, user modeling, user evaluation, and health issues. * Networks, including wireless networks, on-body networks, and support for interaction with other wearables and the Internet. * Experimental research that rigorously compares using wearables to other methods or technologies for performing the same task, such as traditional methods or handheld computers. * Operating systems, including such issues as scheduling, security, and power management. * Social implications and privacy issues. * Wearable computing for people with disabilities. * Fashion design, smart clothes, and electronic textiles. ====================================================================== ADVANCE PROGRAM [Tuesday, October 21: Tutorials]Making Computers Wearable S. Watkins and L. Dunne Introduction to Wearable Computing T. Starner and B. Rhodes Experimental Design for Wearable Computing V. Corey and R. DeVaul Wearable Computers for Persons with Disabilities M. Gandy [Wednesday, October 22] Keynote: "Utilizing Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Human Disease: Changing Abnormal Brain Conversation" Michael S. Okun Co-Director Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center University of Florida, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry McKnight Brain Institute Break and Vendor Exhibits MIThril 2003: Applications and Architecture R. DeVaul, M. Sung, J. Gips, and A. Pentland SoundButton: Design of a Low Power Wearable Audio Classification System M. Stager, P. Lukowicz, N. Perera, T. von Bueren, G. Troester, and T. Starner Runtime Support for a Dynamically Composable and Adaptive Wearable System S. Lalis, A. Karypidis, A. Savidis, and C. Stephanidis Kinetic Energy Powered Computing - an Experimental Feasibility Study T. von Bueren, P. Lukowicz, and G. Troester Lunch Self-contained Spatial Input Device for Wearable Computers W. Bang, W. Chang, K. Kang, E. Choi, A. Potanin, and D. Kim A Shoulder Pad Insert Vibrotactile Display A. Toney, L. Dunne, B. Thomas, and S. Ashdown Using Multiple Sensors for Mobile Sign Language Recognition H. Brashear, T. Starner, P. Lukowicz, and H. Junker WACL: Supporting Telecommunications Using Wearable Active Camera with Laser Pointer N. Sakata, T. Kurata, T. Kato, M. Kourogi, and H. Kuzuoka Effects of Functionality on Perceived Comfort of Wearables K. Bodine and F. Gemperle Break and Vendor Exhibits Autocalibration Algorithm for Ultrasonic Location Systems P. Duff and H. Muller Coarse, Inexpensive, Infrared Tracking for Wearable Computing D. Hallaway, T. Hoellerer, and S. Feiner RF Free Ultrasonic Positioning M. McCarthy and H. Muller Break Unsupervised, Dynamic Identification of Physiological and Activity Context in Wearable Computing A. Krause, D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, and J. Farringdon Bioimpedance Measurement System for Smart Clothing T. Vuorela, K. Kukkonen, J. Rantanen, T. Jarvinen, and J. Vanhala Evening reception at the IBM Industry Solutions Lab at Hawthorne, NY [Thursday, October 23] A Wearable Augmented Reality System Using Positioning Infrastructures and a Pedometer R. Tenmoku, M. Kanbara, and N. Yokoya Authoring 3D Hypermedia for Wearable Augmented and Virtual Reality S. Gueven and S. Feiner First Steps Towards Handheld Augmented Reality D. Wagner and D. Schmalstieg Break and Vendor Exhibits The Memory Glasses: Subliminal vs. Overt Memory Support with Imperfect Information R. DeVaul, A. Pentland, and V. Corey Layered Annotations of Digital Images for Data Collection in the Field J. Cross, C. Baber, and S. Woolley A Wearable Networked MP3 Player and "Turntable" for Collaborative Scratching M. Hans and M. Smith Sonic City: Prototyping a Wearable Experience R. Maze and M. Jacobs Lunch Gadget Show Personal Position Measurement Using Dead Reckoning C. Randell, C. Djiallis, and H. Muller A Wearable Sense of Balance Monitoring System towards Daily Health Care Monitoring S. Matsushita, T. Oba, K. Otsuki, M. Toji, J. Otsuki, and K. Ogawa Speedy: A fall detector in a wristwatch T. Degen, H. Jaeckel, M. Rufer, and S. Wyss Break and Vendor Exhibits Towards a design framework for wearable electronic textiles T. Martin, M. Jones, J. Edmison, and R. Shenoy Resistive Fibre-Meshed Transducers R. Wijesiriwardana, T.Dias, and S. Mukhopadhyay Technology Development for Building Flexible Silicon Functional Fibres T. Healy, J. Donnelly, B. O'Neill, J. Alderman, A. Mathewson, F. Clemens, J. Heiber, T. Graule, A. Ullsperger, W. Hartmann, C. Papadas, and N. Venios Break and Vendor Exhibits Sensing and Modeling Human Networks using the Sociometer T. Choudhury and A. Pentland ContextAware Notification for Wearable Computing N. Kern and B. Schiele Shoes as a Platform for Vision P. Fitzpatrick and C. Kemp Continuous Sensing of Gesture for Control of Audio-Visual Media X. Sha, G. Iachello, S. Dow, Y. Serita, T. St. Julien, and J. Fistre An Extended Menu Navigation Interface Using Multiple Pressure-Sensitive Strips G. Blasko and S. Feiner KeyMenu: A Keyboard Based Hierarchical Menu K. Lyons, N. Patel and T. Starner Nice2CU: Managing a Person's Augmented Memory T. Kawamura, Y. Kono, and M. Kidode PadNET: Wearable Physical Activity Detection Network H. Junker, P. Lukowicz, and G. Troester Peer-To-Peer Policy Management System for Wearable Mobile Devices M. Massimi and U. Wolz SenSay: A Context-Aware Mobile Phone D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, J. Furukawa, A. Krause, N. Moraveji, K. Reiger, J. Shaffer, and F. Wong Teaching Agents for Wearable Augmented Reality Systems T. Sephton Using Gravity to Estimate Accelerometer Orientation D. Mizell Wearable Alertness Monitoring for Industrial Applications G. Kaefer, G. Prochart, and R. Weiss Wearables in the Workplace: Sensing Interactions at the Office N. Eagle and A. Pentland Network Obsession M. Dahlstroem Closing Remarks Planning for ISWC 2004