ISSN: 2519-8440
ISBN: 978-1-61208-657-6

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• Free Access: in ThinkMind Digital Library

SPWID 2018 is colocated with the following events as part of DataSys 2018 Congress:

• AICT 2018, The Fourteenth Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications
• ICIW 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
• ICIMP 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection
• SMART 2018, The Seventh International Conference on Smart Cities, Systems, Devices and Technologies
• IMMM 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management
• INFOCOMP 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation
• MODOPT 2018, The International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization
• MOBILITY 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users
• SPWID 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Smart Portable, Wearable, Implantable and Disability-oriented Devices and Systems
• ACCSE 2018, The Third International Conference on Advances in Computation, Communications and Services

SPWID 2018 conference tracks:

Trends in mobile/wearable/implantable devices

Wearable visual markers; Wrist-worn Sensors; Integrated textile sensors; Piezo-electric sensors; Collar-sensed motion gestures; Touch sensitive fabrics; Forearm smart watches; Magnetic field sensing; Inertial sensing; Commodity WiFi devices; Visually and motor impaired supporting systems;  Devices for low vision people; Body orientation sensing; Sensing with smartphones and wearables; Phone-based behavioral patterns; Noninvasive blood screening cameras; Mobile commodity sensors; Skin reading haptic display; Touch-based vibrotactile interactions; Tactile vertical perception in 3D; Finger-worn devices; Skin-friendly materials; Wearables in healthcare and wellbeing; Smart eyeglasses; Swallowing sensing devices; Muscle virtual food texture; Multi-modal wearable ambient display; Fusing Smartphone and Smartwatch sensors; Underwater body sensors

Trends in mobile/wearable/implantable services and technologies

Mobile activity recognition; Smart watches through eye tracking; Wearable-oriented industrial projects; Context-aware personal health assistance services; Human respiration detection systems; Unsupervised recognition and interleaved activities; Smart device-based password manager; Traits perception systems in a smart homes; Intra-Body networks; Inter-Body networks;  Walking sensing systems; Urban sensing human mobility systems; Mobile crowd sensing systems; Passive sensing and detection of mental health systems; Hiding sensitive smartphone data; Environments for smart textiles; Wearable reducing anxiety systems; Ambient air pollution systems

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

Powering wearable devices

Energy harvesting techniques; Power management (design optimizations to balance sensor+processing+transmission vs. available+generated+received power); Power storage (battery, wireless transmission); Self-rechargeable wearable devices; Self-powering wearable devices.

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

Deadlines:

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).