[ecoop-info] Last Mile: SPWID 2016 || May 22 - 26, 2016 - Valencia, Spain

[Sandra Sendra]

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- SPWID 2016, The Second International Conference on Smart Portable, Wearable, Implantable and Disability-oriented Devices and Systems

The submission deadline of January 26, 2016 is approaching.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== SPWID 2016 | Call for Papers ===============


CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


SPWID 2016, The Second International Conference on Smart Portable, Wearable, Implantable and Disability-oriented Devices and Systems

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/SPWID16.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/SubmitSPWID16.html


Events schedule: May 22 - 26, 2016 - Valencia, Spain Contributions:

- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters:  slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]

- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]


Proposals for:

- mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html

- workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

- tutorials:  [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

- panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]


Submission deadline: January 26, 2016


Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


SPWID 2016 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/CfPSPWID16.html

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SENSING DEVICES

Wearable devices; Implantable devices; Brain-driven devices (brain signal capturing devices); Wearable sensors, actuators, input/output devices; Smart textile technologies, textile sensing and feedback, e-textiles, smart fabrics; Eyewear mounted sensors and actuator systems; Wearable displays; Smart watches; Smart glasses; Smart night-vision devices; Smart audio drivers/amplifiers; Smart accompanying robots; Manufacturing challenges; Societal implications, health risk, environmental, privacy aspects

MOBILE COMMUNICATION

Wearable sensor networks (wireless, on-body, near-body, Internet?); Augmentative and alternative communication devices; Computer-operating I/O devices for persons with disabilities; Wearable applications designed for and delivered via smartphones; Smartphones as personal wearable communication devices; Smartphones with sensing modalities; Interaction and cooperation via smartphones; Communication with smart-watches, smart-glasses; Smart communication technologies (e.g., Bluetooth)

ASSISTIVE

Smart/intelligent prosthetics; Organ replacement devices (artificial organs); Accompanying robots; Patient/citizen body-driven technology (self-adaptive devices to body's conditions); Devices for helping services for persons with sense disabilities (blind, not-mobile, etc.); Designing large-scale grids and clouds of smartphones for assistive coordination; Motion detection and activity recognition; Neurological disabilities; Personalization, customization and lifelong learning in activity recognition

SYSTEM DESIGN

Wearable systems design; Ambient intelligence driven system requirements; Requirements for augmented context-awareness; Systems designs combining wearable features and ubiquity; Designing eyewear systems; Smartphone services design and service composition; Smartphone technologies and sensing specialized devices; User modeling, user evaluation, usability engineering, user experience design; Cognitive networks for medical communities; Interfaces (explicit, implicit, hands-free, speech-based, haptics, context-aware ?); Integration of medical assistive devices with healthcare systems; Human factors, perception, acceptance, ergonomics; Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments; Tools, testbeds and deployment challenges

APPLICATIONS

Design of smart clothing in medicine, wellness, healthcare, disabilities, elderly; Virtual hospitals; Ambient-assisted living; Activity monitoring devices (walking, working, sleeping, exercising, ?); Pain control devices; Lifestyle improvement devices; Alert and hazard situations monitoring devices; Patient/citizen localization; Life-threatening cases assessments; Studies based on large cell phone deployments; Teaching and education; Consumer markets and entertainment; Case studies; Risks with medical devices; Social impact and acceptance ------------------------

SPWID 2016 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/ComSPWID16.html