SCOPE:

Recent advances in mobile and sensing technologies have facilitated the rapid development of smart wearable devices and Internet of Things (IoT). With the increasing interests from the industries, growing number of new devices have been introduced in the consumer electronics market, particular for fitness, sports and home automation applications. In addition, extensive research has been focused on developing pervasive sensing devices and technologies for health and wellbeing.

This conference addresses the technical issues and latest developments in smart wearable devices and IoT technologies for health and wellbeing applications.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of Smart Cities, ICT and e-Health and will be co-located with the Smart City 360 Summit.

• Participation in this event will give attendees the unique opportunity to be exposed to all technical scientific aspects of Smart City related topic areas at co-located conferences, as well as be able to have full access to the Smart City market place and business aspects in practice at the Smart City 360 Summit.

• All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world’s largest scientific libraries. Best papers will be invited to publish also in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology.

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:

• Wearable sensor development
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Ergonomics, biocompatibility and design
• Wireless Communication and Networking
• Sensor fusion
• Big data analytics
• Mobile Apps
• Signal Processing and Machine Learning
• Behavior profiling and context awareness
• Medical and healthcare applications

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy’ system at Confy, and have to comply with the format (see Author’s kit section).

Detailed instructions for manuscript preparation and submission are available on the conference website.

All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages and must strictly adhere to the IEEE conference publication format (e.g., 10pt font, single spacing, double column) in US Letter size with all fonts embedded.

Call for Posters

Authors who wish to present their work as posters are required to submit a one-page PDF with a title and an abstract of their work (not the poster itself). Submissions should preferably represent early work that is not yet ready for submission to a refereed conference or journal, or describe a technical (non-marketing) innovation. Authors of accepted posters are expected to prepare and present their posters.

Call for Demos

Technology demos are encouraged. Authors who wish to present a technology prototype are required to submit a one-page PDF with a title and a description of their work. Submissions should preferably represent technological innovations in the making. Submitters of accepted demos are expected to present the demo at the conference.

Publications

Accepted papers will be published in the SWIT-Health 2015 Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines.

The proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Important dates

• Full Paper Due:                  31 May 2015
• Acceptance Notification:        15 July 2015
• Camera-ready Due:                15 August 2015

Steering Committee Chair:

Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, EAI

General Chair:

Benny Lo, Imperial College, London

Organizing committee

Program Chair:

Min Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Program Co-chair:

Ilangko Balasingham, University of Oslo

Web Chair:

Harshvardhan Vathsangam, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Publicity and Social Media Chair:

Gaetano Valenza, University of Pisa and Harvard Medical School

Conference Manager:

Lucia Mrazova, EAI

SWIT-Health will be co-located with

Smart City 360 Summit