WristSense 2020 - 6th WristSense Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications Using Wrist Worn Smart Devices

6th WristSense Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications Using Wrist Worn Smart Devices.
- Co-located with IEEE PerCom at Austin Tx, March 23-27, 2020
- Apple sponsored smartwatch for the best paper at WristSense’20. Additional ONE registration scholarship will be given to a WristSense’20 student presenter.
- 3rd year of NIH/NSF/ESF Panel to discuss establishing gold standard measures using wrist-worn sensors
https://sites.google.com/view/wristsense2020
Call for Papers:
Wrist-worn devices is a growing market. Google just spent $40 million for Fossil’s secret smartwatch tech. Many large corporations such as Apple and Samsung already have a commodity smartwatch and many other companies such as FitBit, Nike, Jawbone have wristbands geared towards fitness tracking. Smart-watches and bands are equipped with many sensors, (for example, latest Samsung Gear devices have heart rate, accelerometer, gyroscope, infrared sensors, etc.) a processor, communication radios (for example, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi) and a small size display. It is, therefore, possible to capture information about the device user, perform computation and communication using these devices to infer various activities/contexts of the user. Further, these wrist-worn devices also represent a perfect platform to conduct research on human activity, behavior, and related areas, given the capabilities described above. Moreover, the sensor data from the wrist-worn devices can be augmented with data from alternate personal sensing modalities (for example, smartphones, smartglasses, etc.) or infrastructure sensing devices (for example, security cameras, BLE beacons, etc.) to obtain richer contextual information about the individual as well as the environment around the individual.
In this workshop, we will focus on two key areas:
- Wellness and Digital Health
- Industrial and Factory Applications
We are looking for submissions that include exploration of wrist/hand-based sensing, as part of broader sensor-based applications, that may include additional wearable devices or IoT platforms. We invite paper submissions in the following areas:
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of systems using wrist-based smart devices.
- Design and implementation of a wrist-worn device based pervasive applications that may include data from other wearable and IoT devices.
- Description of experiences in data collection and deployments using wrist-worn devices and/or alternate sensing modalities.
- Feedback, notifications, and alerts using wrist-worn smart devices.
- User behavior analysis on data collected from a wrist-worn device and/or additional personal sensing devices.
- User activity and context recognition using wrist-worn smart devices.
- Achieving energy efficiency and extending the battery life of wearable devices.
- Efficient communication between wearable devices and smartphones or other wearable and infrastructure sensing devices.
- Privacy aspects related to data collection from wearable wrist-worn devices.
- Establishing wrist-worn based gold standard measures for health-related constructs.
3rd NIH/NSF Panelists Join the Discussion Regarding How to Establish Objective Gold Standard Measurements for Health Constructs:
Due to participants' increased willingness to wear wrist-worn sensors, the wrist remains a major contender for tackling problems related to health and medicine. Currently, physical and sedentary activity are the only constructs with acceptable gold standard passive sensing measures (e.g. Actigraph measuring MVPA and Actipal measuring types of sedentary activity). We aim to continue the discussion to change that. WristSense 2018 comprised of panelists Dr. Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy), Dr. Adam Haim (NIMH - USA), and Dr. Andreas Lymberis (European Commission - Belgium). Similarly, the panel in 2019 comprised of panelists Dr. Koji Yatani (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Dr. Sozo Inoue (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan), Avik Ghose (TCS Innovation & Research, India). Due to the interest in the topic, we plan to continue the panel in 2020. We are putting together a unique panel discussion comprising of key individuals across academia, industry, and agencies such as National Institutes for Health / National Science Foundation in the U.S. and European Research Council / European Science Foundation in Europe surrounding "Defining Objective Gold Standard Measures for Health Outcomes”. Our goal is to engage the research community in this important discussion, and perhaps identify a vision moving forward for technologist, behaviorist, engineers, and mHealth specialist.
Important Dates:
Workshop paper submissions: November 11, 2019
Paper notification date: December 20, 2019
Camera ready: January 31, 2020
Author registration: TBD
Workshop date: March 23rd, 2020
Submission Guidelines:
Submitted papers must be original contributions that are unpublished and are not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers should be no more than 6 pages in length and must adhere to IEEE PerCom workshop format (2-column, 10pt font), including references, figures, and tables.
Apple Best Paper Award & 1 Registration Scholarships:
The Apple award will be given to the best paper presented at the workshop to acknowledge and encourage excellence in research. The awardee will be presented with a certificate and an Apple watch at the workshop. In addition, Apple gives registration scholarships to 1 student participants.
Organizers / Chairs:
Archan Misra, Singapore Management University, SG.
Abhishek Mukherji, Cisco Inc., US.
Nabil Alshurafa, Northwestern University IL, US.
Web & Publicity Chair:
Sougata Sen, Northwestern University, US.
Technical Program Committee:
Yutaka Arakawa, Kyushu University, JP.
Avik Ghose, TCS Research & Innovation, IN.
Josiah Hester, Northwestern University, US.
Vassilis Kostakos, University of Melbourne, AUS.
Kristof Van Laerhoven, University of Siegen, DE.
Akhil Mathur, Nokia Bell Labs, UK.
Bobak Mortazavi, Texas A&M University, US.
Travis Peters, Montana State University, US.
Temiloluwa Prioleau, Dartmouth College, US.
Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), US.