SPWID 2022, The International Conference on Smart Wearable, Implantable and Disability-oriented Devices and Systems, is an inaugural event bridging the concepts and the communities dealing with specialized implantable, wearable, near-body or mobile devices, including artificial organs, body-driven technologies, and assistive services.

Mobile communications played by the proliferation of smartphones and practical aspects of designing such systems and developing specific applications raise particular challenges for a successful acceptance and deployment.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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 topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

SPWID 2022 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