Important Dates:

Early Registration Deadline : September 21
Conference: Sept 28
- Oct 1









 

ISWC 2008 Advance Program:

  Sunday September 28, 2008

12:30pm Registration Opens
1:00-
5:00
Doctoral Colloquium

  Monday September 29, 2008

8:00am Registration Opens

9:30-
10:00

Opening Ceremony
10:00-
11:00
Keynote 1: Marcel Just, Carnegie Mellon University
11:00-
11:30
Break
11:30-
12:30pm
Session 1: Location Mapping
12:30-
2:00
Lunch
2:00-
3:30
Session 2: Mobile Phones and Human Interfaces
3:30-
4:00
Break
4:00-
5:00
Session 3: Activity Recognition
6:00-
8:00
Reception and Demos (at CMU Entertainment Technology Center)

  Tuesday September 30, 2008

8:00am Registration Opens

9:00-
10:00

Keynote 2: Rory Cooper, University of Pittsburgh
10:00-
10:30
Break
10:30-
11:30
Session 4: Activity Support
11:30-
12:30pm
Panel
12:30-
2:00
Lunch
2:00-
2:30
Gadget Show and One Minute Madness
2:30-
4:00
Posters, Demos, and Juried Exhibition
3:30-
4:00
Break
4:00-
4:40
Session 5: Power and System Integration
4:40-
5:00
Best Paper and Juried Exhibition Awards and Closing (ISWC'09)
5:00-
6:00
Business Meeting
5:30-
7:00
Tour of BodyMedia, Inc

  Wednesday October 1, 2008

8:00am Registration Opens
8:30-
12:00pm
Workshops/Tutorials
12:00-
1:30
Lunch
1:30-
5:00
Workshops/Tutorials

 

 

  Monday, Sept 29th 11:30-12:30am Session 1: Location Mapping

  HeadSLAM - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Head-Mounted Inertial and Laser Range Sensors
      - Burcu Cinaz, Holger Kenn

  Localization and 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes Using GPS
      - Kihwan Kim, Jay Summet, Thad Starner, Daniel Ashbrook, Mrunal Kapade, Irfan Essa

  Video-rate Localization in Multiple Maps for Wearable Augmented Reality
      - Robert Castle, Georg Klein, David Murray

 

  Monday, Sept 29th 2:00-3:20pm Session 2: Mobile Phones and Human Interfaces

  Using Mobile Phones to Determine Transportation Mode
      - Sasank Reddy, Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin, Mark Hansen, Mani Srivastava

  Discovering Human Routines from Cell Phone Data with Topic Models
     - Katayoun Farrahi, Daniel  Gatica-Perez

  A new Approach to Enable Gesture Recognition in Continuous Data Streams
     - Andreas Zinnen, Bernt Schiele

  PianoTouch: A Wearable Haptic Piano Instruction System For Passive Learning of Piano Skills
     - Kevin Huang, Ellen Do, Thad Starner 

 


  Monday, Sept 29th 4:00-5:00pm Session 3: Activity Recognition

  Adapting Magnetic Resonant Coupling Based Relative Positioning Technology for Wearable Activity   Recogniton
     - Gerald Pirkl, Karl Stockinger, Kai Kunze, Paul Lukowicz

  Using a complex Multi-modal On-body Sensor System for Activity Spotting
    - Georg Ogris, Thomas Stiefmeier, Paul Lukowicz, Gerhard Troster

  Using Rhythm Awareness in Long-Term Activity Recognition
     - Kristof Van Laerhoven, David Kilian and Bernt Schiele 

 


  Tuesday, Sept 30th 10:30-11:30am Session 4: Activity Support

  Sustained Logging and Discrimination of Sleep Postures with Low-Level, Wrist-Worn Sensor
     - Kristof Van Laerhoven, Marko Borazio, David Kilian and Bernt Schiele

  Towards a Virtual Coach for manual wheelchair users
    - Brian French, Divya Tyamagundlu, Daniel Siewiorek, Asim Smailagic, Dan Ding

  Exploring Semi-Supervised and Active Learning for Activity Recognition
    - Maja Stikic, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Bernt Schiele 

 

 

  Tuesday, Sept 30th 2:30-4:00pm Poster Session

  Lightweight Hand and Arm Tracking for Mobile Augmented Reality
    - Ross Smith, Benjamin Avery, Bruce Thomas

  Wearable Experience Capture for People with Episodic Memory Impairment
    - Matthew Lee, Anind Dey

   Rapid Prototyping for Wearable Computing
    - Daniel Spelmezan, Adalbert Schanowski, Jan Borchers

  Scheming Textiles: End-user Programming for Wearables
    - Nwanua Elumeze, Michael Eisenberg

   AstroWheelie: A wheelchair based exercise game
    - Stephen Cuzzort, Thad Starner

   Stop Burdening Your Eyes:  A Wearable Electro-Tactile Display
    - Seungyon Lee, Thad Starner

   Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk
    - Hélène Day-Fraser, Sidney Fels, Robert  Pritchard

   Wearable Context-Aware Calorie Estimation for Nutrition Monitoring
    - Geeta Shroff, Asim Smailagic, Daniel Siewiorek

   Suggestion for Optimal Location of Textile-based ECG Electrodes on an Elastic Shirts Considering Clothing    Pressure of the Shirt
    - Moonsoo Sung, Keesam Jeong, Gilsso Cho

 

 


  Tuesday, Sept 30th 3:30-4:30pm Session 5: Power and System Integration

  PowerPACK: A Wireless Power Distribution System for Wearable Devices
     - Travis Deyle, Matthew Reynolds

  SwitchR: Reducing System Power Consumption in a Multi-Client Multi-Radio Environment
     - Yuvraj Agarwal, Trevor Pering, Roy Want, Rajesh Gupta

 

 


  Tuesday, Sept 30th 5:30-7:00pm Tour of BodyMedia

 From BodyMedia, Inc:

Over 50,000 people have worn a Bodymedia armband, a continuous sensor and metabolic monitor. We have amassed over 10,000 years worth of data.
 
BodyMedia is a world leader in the design and development of wearable body monitoring products and services. Our products provide accurate and actionable information about the health and behaviors of people outside of the traditional clinical setting. Currently available products include: a wearable sensor system and research software giving access to sensor data (skin temperature, GSR, heat flux, accelerometory,  bodymedia.com), a clinical and weight management system including nutrition tracking, sleep tracking, and calorie balance (sensewear.com), and a health and fitness system (GoWearFit.com). The system is the basis of the popular bodybugg system from 24Hour Fitness as seen in "The Biggest Looser" on NBC (bodybugg.com). A wrist watch display gives immediate feedback of calorie burn.
 
BodyMedia is based in downtown Pittsburgh, a half mile walk from the ISWC conference hotel. Our manufacturing facility is an hour away, otherwise all aspects of our business are here: an electronics and product development lab, exercise lab with wearable indirect calorimetry, algorithm development, software development, sales, research, marketing, and customer support.