WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
Tuesday, 14 June
0800-0900 Registration and Continental Breakfast
Conference Room Foyer – 2nd floor
0900-1200 Morning Sessions
Hack-a-thon (0900+ continues all day)
Benny Lo/Imperial College and Intel
Conference Rooms 1&4 – 2nd floor
Ice House Challenge set up (by invitation only; three final teams);
Note: contestants begin at 0800 h, Wednesday 15 June
U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Coast Guard and MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Amna Greaves (MIT LL), chair
Fisher Banquet Room – 1st floor
1200-1330 Lunch (provided onsite)
Conference Room Foyer – 2nd floor
1300-1700 Afternoon Session
Conference Room 3 – 2nd floor
4th Annual Workshop on Automated Sensor Based Mobility Analysis for Disease
Prevention and Treatment
Bjoern Eskofier and Jochen Klucken (FAU/Erlangen)
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Wednesday, 15 June
0730-0830 Registration and Continental Breakfast
Robertson Auditorium Foyer – 2nd floor
ALL POSTER BOARDS AND EXHIBITOR TABLES ARE TO BE SETUP BY THIS TIME
0830-0845
Welcome (Technical Chair, Mark Buller)
Robertson Auditorium I – 2nd floor
0845-0930 (Introduction: Karl Friedl)
Keynote Speaker: Bjoern Eskofier, Ph.D, Digital Sports Group of the Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany
Smart shoes reach the clinic: wearable sensor-based instrumented gait analysis in Parkinson’s Disease
0930-1030 (Session Chair: Karl Friedl)
Session 1. Novel SENSOR applications
| 1 | Sensor systems for monitoring fluid intake indirectly and directly | JF Kreutzer, J Deist, CM Hein, TC Leuth |
| 2 | Diet eyeglasses: Recognising food chewing using EMG and smart eyeglasses | R Zhang, S Bernhart, O Amft |
| 3 | Gait Tracker Shoe for Accurate Step-by-step Determination of Gait Parameters | Y Zhuang, J Gong, DC Kerrigan, BC Bennett, J Lach |
1030-1100 AM COFFEE BREAK – Robertson Auditorium Foyer – 2nd floor
POSTERS – Robertson Auditorium 2 & 3 – 2nd floor
(Presenters are asked to stand by their posters at this time)
1100-1145 (Session Chair: TBD)
Session 2. NON-HUMAN BIOMONITORING AND PROTECTION
| 1 | Using Collar-worn Sensors to Forecast Thermal Strain in Military Working Dogs | JR Williamson, AR Hess, CJ Smalt, DM Sherrill, TF Quatieri, C O’Brien |
| 2 | Real-time Monitoring of the Horse-Rider Dyad Using Body Sensor Network Technology | D Piette, T Norton, V Exadaktylos, D Berckmans |
| 3 | Towards a wearable system for continuous monitoring of sniffing and panting in dogs | R Brugarolas, T Agcayazi, S Yuschak, DL Roberts, BL Sherman, A Bozkurt |
1145-1230 (Introduction: Mark Buller)
Keynote Speaker: Doug Barton, MBA
IBM Analytics for Performance Management, Madison, Wisconsin
What can we learn from the toughest endurance bike race on earth?
1230-1330 LUNCH (provided onsite)
Robertson Auditorium Foyer – 2nd floor
1330-1500 (Session co-chairs: Mark Buller and Hilde Teien)
Session 3. Wearable sensor applications in extreme environments
| 1 | Physiological monitoring in cold weather operations | H Teien |
| 2 | Tracking body core temperature in military thermal environments: an extended Kalman filter approach | K-Y Seng, Y Chen, KMA Chai, T Wang, DCY Fun, YS Teo, PMS Tan, WH Ang, JKW Lee |
| 3 | On single sensor-based inertial navigation | N Strozzi, F Parisi, G Ferrari |
| 4 | Inclined walking energetics: body mass, loaded mass, and predictability | LW Ludlow, PG Weyand |
| 5 | Monitoring thermal strain during recruit training | T Wyss, B Veenstra, S Delves, M Buller |
1500-1530 PM COFFEE BREAK – Robertson Auditorium Foyer – 2nd floor
POSTERS – Robertson Auditorium 2 & 3 – 2nd floor
(Presenters are asked to stand by their posters at this time)
1530-1615 (Introduction: John Hixson)
Keynote Speaker: Rosalind Picard, Sc.D
Affective Computing Research Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Connecting emotions, brain and behavior with wearables
1615-1800 (Session Chair: John Hixson)
Session 4. Body sensor-based monitoring in chronic disease applications
| 1 | An integrated wearable robot for tremor suppression with context aware sensing | D Huen, J Liu, B Lo |
| 2 | Active Implantable Sensor Powered by Ultrasounds With Application in Monitoring of Physiological Parameters for Soft Tissues | BM Gil-Rosa, GZ Yang
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| 3 | On the use of wearable sensors to enhance motion intention detection for a contra laterally controlled FES system | AF Ruiz-Olaya
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| 4 | Instantaneous P- and T-wave detection: assessment of three ECG fiducial points detection algorithms | H Leutheuser, S Gradl, L Anneken, M Arnold, N Lang, S Achenback, BM Eskofier |
| 5 | Accurate gait analysis in post-stroke patients using a single inertial measurement unit | F Parisi, G Ferrari, A Baricich, M D’Innocenzo, C Cisari, A Mauro |
1800-2000 SYMPOSIUM NETWORKING RECEPTION
Fisher Auditorium – 1st floor
End of Day 1, Technical Program
TECHNICAL PROGRAM (continued)
Thursday, 16 June
0730-0830 Registration and Continental Breakfast
Robertson Auditorium Foyer – 2nd floor
0830-0900 (Introduction: Peter Weyand)
Keynote Speaker: Jim Glasheen, Ph.D
Technology Partners, Mill Valley, California
Wearables: the bridge between the consumer and healthcare industries?
Robertson Auditorium I – 2nd floor
0900-1000 (Session Chair: Peter Weyand)
Session 5. INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS PANEL
Applications of commercially available wearable systems will be highlighted in presentations by three researchers and industry developers
Panel Presenters: Anmol Sood (Equivital), Roozbeh Ghaffari (MC10), Jiang Li (VivaLnk)
1000-1030 AM COFFEE BREAK – Robertson Auditorium Foyer – 2nd floor
POSTERS – Robertson Auditorium 2 & 3 – 2nd floor
(Poster Presenters stand by their posters at this time)
1030-1115 (Introduction: Eric Yeatman)
Keynote Speaker: Veena Misra, Ph.D
NSF Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Body-powered sensors: the next generation of wearables
1115-1200 (Session Chair: Eric Yeatman)
Session 6. DATA QUALITY ISSUES FOR WEARABLES
| 1 | An energy-efficient and QoS-effective resource allocation scheme in WBANs | Z Liu, B Liu, C Chen, CW Chen |
| 2 | Accurate personal ultraviolet dose estimation with multiple wearable sensors | J Li, Y Liu, H Li, R Hua, CJ Xue, HG Lee, H Yang |
| 3 | Wearable alcohol monitoring device with auto-calibration ability for high chemical specificity | Y Umasankar, AH Jalal, PJ Gonzalez, M Chowdhury, A Alfonso, S Bhansali |
1200-1300 LUNCH (provided onsite)
Robertson Auditorium Foyer – 2nd floor
1300-1415 (Introduction: Kong Chen)
Keynote Speaker: David Klonoff, MD
Mills-Peninsula Health Services, Burlingame, California
Wearable sensors as game changers in chronic disease management: achieving physiological homeostasis in diabetes
Robertson Auditorium I – 2nd floor
1415-1530 (Session Chair and Introductory Presentation: Kong Chen)
Session 7. WEARABLE BIOMECHANICS
| 1 | Learning approach for classification of GENEActiv accelerometer data for unique activity identification | A Dutta, O Ma, MP Buman, DW Bliss |
| 2 | A double-layer automatic orientation correction method for human activity recognition | X Wu, X Xu, W Kaiser, G Pottie |
| 3 | Impact forces during running: loaded questions, sensible outcomes | AB Udofa, LJ Ryan, PG Weyand |
| 4 | A novel flexible wearable sensor for estimating joint-angles | SI Lee, J-F Daneault, L Weydert, P Bonato |
1530-1600 PM COFFEE BREAK – Robertson Auditorium Foyer – 2nd floor
POSTERS – Robertson Auditorium 2 & 3 – 2nd floor
(Presenters are asked to stand by their posters at this time)
1600-1715 (Session Chair: TBD)
Session 8. NOVEL NETWORKING AND PLATFORM SOLUTIONS
| 1 | HACMAC: A reliable Human ACtivity-based Medium Access Control for implantable body sensor networks | VRK Ramachandran, PJM Havinga, N Meratnia |
| 2 | Towards a comprehensive power consumption model for wireless sensor nodes | M Hesse, M Adams, T Hormann, U Ruckert |
| 3 | Towards an open data framework for body sensor networks supporting bluetooth low energy | NK Singh, DO Ricke |
| 4 | Profiling, modeling, and predicting energy harvesting for self-powered body sensor platforms | D Fan, LL Ruiz, J Gong, J Lach |
1715-1800 Results of competitions & awards (Hack-a-thon, Ice House Challenge, Best papers)
End of Day 2/End of Technical Program
WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
Friday, 17 June
0800-0900 Continental Breakfast and Coffee
Robertson Auditorium Foyer – 2nd floor
0900-1200 Morning Sessions
Conference Rooms – 2nd floor
- Workshop: Integrating Body Sensing Modalities with Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality Environments, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Conference Room 3
- Workshop: BSN Student Colloquium
Presentations of BSN student posters and award session
Conference Room 1
- Tutorial: “Patch Development for capturing body derived data: features explored, lessons learned and optimizing the balance between the technical performance and wear comfort,”
Holst Centre (Frank Everaerts)
Conference Room 2
- Tutorial: “Energy-efficient design methodologies for wireless body area sensor network in healthcare applications,” University of Cincinnati/University of West Florida (Suryadip Chakraborty)
Conference Room 4
1200 End of conference