The Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2004, DoubleTree Crystal City Arlington, VA (Near Washington, D.C.) The advance program and registration are now available at http://www.iswc.net/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society In cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE ISWC 2004, the eighth 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 200 attendees from industry, military, government, and academia. The advance program is below. Advance registration ends on Oct. 1 at 5 p.m. EST, and hotel rooms are being held until Oct. 9 at 5 p.m. EST. Please join us for an exciting conference! Highlights for ISWC 2004: o Keynote speaker: Bill Buxton, "Appropriate Dress Required: Wearable Computing and Context" o Four tutorials: Wearable Computers for Persons with Disabilities Making Sense: Sensing Technology and the Human Body Wearable and Mobile Human Computer Interaction Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless Communications o CREST workshop on Advanced Computing and Communication Techniques for Wearable Information Playing o Student and Newbie Colloquium o Co-located with the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) with joint sessions on Wednesday, Nov. 3. o And as always, exhibits, research demonstrations and the Gadget Show! 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. * Formal evaluation of wearable computer technologies for example performance of wearable computer technologies or comparisons of existing technologies. * Wearable sensors or networks of sensors for context-awareness * 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 Sunday, Oct. 31 Morning Tutorials (in parallel) * Wearable Computers for Persons with Disabilities Maribeth Gandy * Making Sense: Sensing Technology and the Human Body Chris Kasabach Afternoon Tutorials/CREST Workshop (in parallel) * Wearable and Mobile Human Computer Interaction Thad Starner * Ad Hoc Networking and Wireless Communications David Maltz * CREST workshop on Advanced Computing and Communication Techniques for Wearable Information Playing, organized by Yasuyuki Kono Evening: Design Contest Monday, Nov. 1 Keynote: Bill Buxton, "Appropriate Dress Required: Wearable Computing and Context" Session 1: Wellness * Less Contact: Heart-Rate Detection Without Even Touching the User Florian Michahelles, Ramon Wicki, Bernt Schiele * Wearable Sensors for Auto-Event-Recording on Medical Nursing - User Study of Ergonomic Design Haruo Noma, Aki Ohmura, Noriaki Kuwahara, Kiyoshi Kogure Break Session 2: Gesture * FreeDigiter: A Contact-Free Device for Gesture Control Christian Metzger, Matt Anderson, Thad Starner * A Robust Hand Tracking for Gesture-Based Interaction of Wearable Computer Yang Liu, Yunde Jia * Improving Scalability of Sign Language Recognition Systems: A Hybrid Approach Van Culver Lunch Session 3: Textiles * Intelligent Life Clothing - FICC (Floatable Intelligent and Communicative Clothing) Project Vladan Koncar, Bohwon Kim, Emmanuel Bilala Nebor, Xavier Joppin * Fibre-Meshed Transducers Based a Real Time Wearable Physiological Information Monitoring System Ravindra Wijesiriwardana * E-Textiles for Autonomous Location Awareness Madhup Chandra, Mark T. Jones, Thomas L. Martin * The Design and Deployment of a Wearable Vibrotactile Feedback System Robert Lindeman, John Sibert, Corinna Lathan, Jack Vice Break Session 4: System * Remote Collaboration using a Shoulder-Worn Active Camera/Laser Takeshi Kurata, Nobuchika Sakata, Masakatsu Kourogi, Hideki Kuzuoka, Mark Billinghurst * An Event-driven Wearable System for Supporting Motorbike Races Masakazu Miyamae, Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Keisuke Hiraoka, Takahito Fukuda, Shojiro Nishio * Tracking of User Position and Orientation by Stereo Measurement of Infrared Markers and Orientation Sensing Masaki Maeda, Takefumi Ogawa, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Haruo Takemura * Personal Mobile Hub Dirk Husemann, Chandra Narayanaswami, Michael Nidd Monday evening: Reception, with posters and demos Tuesday, Nov. 2 Session 1: HCI1 * Expert Chording Text Entry on the Twiddler One-Handed Keyboard Kent Lyons, Daniel Plaisted, Thad Starner * Analysis of Wearable Interface Factors for Appropriate Information Notification Vlaho Kostov, Jun Ozawa, Satoshi Matsuura * A Comparative Investigation into Two Pointing Systems for use with Wearable Computers While Mobile Alan Chamberlain, Roy Kalawsky Break Session 2: HCI2 * An Interaction System for Watch Computers Using Tactile Guidance and Bidirectional Segmented Strokes Gabor Blasko, Steven Feiner * Evaluating Techniques for Interaction at a Distance Jason Wither, Tobias Höllerer * Visual Memory Augmentation: Using Eye Gaze as an Attention Filter Deb Roy, Yair Ghitza, Jeff Bartelma, Charlie Kehoe * My Own Private Kiosk: Privacy-Preserving Public Displays Marc Eaddy, Gabor Blasko, Jason Babcock, Steven Feiner Lunch Session 3: Context * Implementation and Evaluation of a Low-Power Sound-Based User Activity Recognition System Mathias Staeger, Paul Lukowicz, Gerhard Troester * Pine versus Porcupine: a Study in Distributed Wearable Activity Recognition Kristof Van Laerhoven, Hans-Werner Gellersen * Methods for Interrupting a Wearable Computer User Mikael Drugge, Marcus Nilsson, Urban Liljedahl, Kåre Synnes, Peter Parnes * A Model for Human Interruptability: Experimental Evaluation and Automatic Estimation from Wearable Sensors Nicky Kern, Stavros Antifakos, Bernt Schiele, Adrian Schwaninger Break Gadget Show Business Meeting Tuesday evening: Student Colloquium Wednesday, Nov. 3: Joint sessions with ISMAR Joint keynote Break Panel session: "Opportunities in Wearable Computing and Augmented Reality," organized by Thad Starner Lunch ======================================================================== Organizing Committee Chairs: General: Tom Martin, Virginia Tech (tlmartin [at] vt.edu) Program: Mark Smith, HP Labs (msmith [at] hpl.hp.lab) Bruce H. Thomas, U. of South Australia (bruce.thomas [at] unisa.edu.au) Finance: Asim Smailagic, Carnegie Mellon University (asim [at] cs.cmu.edu) Local Arrangements: Zary Segall, University of Maryland (zary [at] umbc.edu Publicity: Aaron Toney, U. of South Australia, (joeboy [at] hhhh.org) Daniel Ashbrook, Georgia Tech (anjiro [at] cc.gatech.edu) Tutorials: Francine Gemperle, Carnegie Mellon University (fg24 [at] andrew.cmu.edu) Research Demonstrations: Cliff Randell, U. of Bristol (cliff [at] compsci.bristol.ac.uk). Publications: Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University (kiyo [at] ime.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp) Exhibits: Jennifer Healey, HP Labs (jennifer.healey [at] hp.com)