1st International Conference on Smart Portable, Wearable, Implantable and Disability-oriented Devices and Systems (SPWID 2015)

Key Topics

• Mobile communication
  • Wearable sensor networks (wireless, on-body, near-body, Internet&hellip
  • Computer-operating I/O devices for persons with disabilities
  • Augmentative and alternative communication devices
  • Smartphones as personal wearable communication devices
  • Wearable applications designed for and delivered via smartphones
  • Interaction and cooperation via smartphones
  • Smartphones with sensing modalities
  • Smart communication technologies (e.g., Bluetooth)
  • Communication with smart-watches, smart-glasses
• Sensing devices
  • Implantable devices
  • Wearable devices
  • Wearable sensors, actuators, input/output devices
  • Brain-driven devices (brain signal capturing devices)
  • Eyewear mounted sensors and actuator systems
  • Smart textile technologies, textile sensing and feedback, e-textiles, smart fabrics
  • Smart watches
  • Wearable displays
  • Smart night-vision devices
  • Smart glasses
  • Smart accompanying robots
  • Smart audio drivers/amplifiers
  • Societal implications, health risk, environmental, privacy aspects
  • Manufacturing challenges
• System design
  • Ambient intelligence driven system requirements
  • Wearable systems design
  • Systems designs combining wearable features and ubiquity
  • Requirements for augmented context-awareness
  • Smartphone services design and service composition
  • Designing eyewear systems
  • User modeling, user evaluation, usability engineering, user experience design
  • Smartphone technologies and sensing specialized devices
  • Interfaces (explicit, implicit, hands-free, speech-based, haptics, context-aware &hellip
  • Cognitive networks for medical communities
  • Integration of medical assistive devices with healthcare systems
  • Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments
  • Human factors, perception, acceptance, ergonomics
  • Tools, testbeds and deployment challenges
• Assistive
  • Organ replacement devices (artificial organs)
  • Smart/intelligent prosthetics
  • Patient/citizen body-driven technology (self-adaptive devices to body`s conditions)
  • Accompanying robots
  • Designing large-scale grids and clouds of smartphones for assistive coordination
  • Devices for helping services for persons with sense disabilities (blind, not-mobile, etc.)
  • Neurological disabilities
  • Motion detection and activity recognition
  • Personalization, customization and lifelong learning in activity recognition
• Applications
  • Virtual hospitals
  • Design of smart clothing in medicine, wellness, healthcare, disabilities, elderly
  • Activity monitoring devices (walking, working, sleeping, exercising, &hellip
  • Ambient-assisted living
  • Pain control devices
  • Alert and hazard situations monitoring devices
  • Lifestyle improvement devices
  • Life-threatening cases assessments
  • Patient/citizen localization
  • Teaching and education
  • Studies based on large cell phone deployments
  • Case studies
  • Consumer markets and entertainment
  • Social impact and acceptance
  • Risks with medical devices