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
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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
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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)