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From: Thad Starner <testarne@media.mit.edu>
To: wearables@media.mit.edu, technomads@media.mit.edu
Subject: Wearables conference submission date April 4 in 1 week!
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:40:02 -0500
Sorry for the repeats.
Thad
Call for Participation
First International Symposium on Wearable Computers
October 13 - 14, 1997
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
Initial Submissions Due by April 4, 1997
INVITATION
The International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) is the first
annual conference on wearable computing. The conference is being
sponsored (pending) by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers. The purpose of ISWC is to bring together researchers,
product vendors, research sponsors, and others to share information
and advances in wearable computing. The conference will include
presentations, exhibitions, and poster sessions.
We invite you to attend ISWC and to submit proposals for paper
presentations, exhibitions, and posters. The IEEE Computer
Society Press will publish the papers and poster summaries in a
conference proceedings. Selected papers will be included
in a special issue of the IEEE "Personal Technologies" journal. We
will also publish all papers, exhibition summaries,
and poster summaries on the World Wide Web.
LOCATION
On October 13th and 14th, the conference will be held at the
Marriott Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA. On the day
after the conference, Wednesday, October 15th, the Media
Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invites
attendees to participate in a gala event that will help introduce
the concept of wearable computing to a broader audience. The MIT
Media Laboratory is a short walk from the Marriott Hotel. The
conference sites are easy to reach by mass transit and are
convenient to hotels, restaurants, entertainment, and historic
sites in Cambridge and Boston. The colorful New England autumn
leaves should be at their most beautiful during the conference.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The topics for ISWC may include:
o Applications, including affective computing, augmented
reality, computer-supported collaborative work,
computer-supported cooperative living, ubiquitous
computing, personal imaging, consumer applications,
industrial applications, medical applications, military
applications, and software agents
o Ergonomics
o Future of wearable computing
o Hardware, including head-mounted display technologies,
batteries, power management, heat dissipation
techniques, industrial design techniques, and
manufacturing packaging issues
o Human interface issues, including hands-free user
speech recognition, mobility-challenged users, user
modeling, user evaluations, and health issues
o Networks, including wireless networks, on-body networks,
the World Wide Web, and networked vs. standalone
computers
o Operating system issues
o Social implications
o Software architectures
o Training, including performance support systems
PAPERS
We invite researchers to submit papers on the topics listed above or
other topics related to wearable computing. The authors of papers
that are selected for the conference will provide presentations
during the conference. To submit a paper, please do the
following:
o Write a paper that discusses the research, innovation,
or advance made by the author. Emphasize the unique
contribution of the work and how it will benefit
others. The paper should not exceed 4,000 words
(eight pages) in length. Include the author names,
affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers, and
electronic mail addresses. Also, identify the contact
person for the paper. A template for the paper is on
the World Wide Web at http://mime1.marc.gatech.edu/
wearcon/call/ISWC-Pubformat.w6.0.
o By April 4, 1997, send four paper copies of the paper
to:
Len Bass
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
To ask questions about papers, use the above address or:
Electronic mail: ljb@sei.cmu.edu
Office: (412) 268-6763
Fax: (412) 268-3399
If your paper is accepted, we will ask you to submit the final
paper in both HTML and print formats. This will allow us to
put the paper on the conference's World Wide Web page and to
publish it in the conference proceedings.
EXHIBITIONS
We invite you to exhibit your products, services, or research
projects during the conference. Exhibitions will be
available continuously in a room (or rooms) near the meeting
room. Exhibitors will show their products and distribute
promotional literature to interested conference attendees.
Exhibitors will pay a fee for their booths.
The number of exhibitors that are accepted for the conference
will be limited by available space. To apply to be an
exhibitor, please do the following:
o Write a summary of the product, service, or research
project that you hope to exhibit. Describe why it
will interest the conference attendees. The summary
should not exceed 500 words (one page) in length.
Be sure to include in the summary the exhibitor
names, affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers,
electronic mail addresses, and World Wide Web page
location. Also, identify the contact person for
the exhibition.
o By April 4, 1997, send four paper copies of the
exhibition summary to:
Steve Mann
Media Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room E15-389
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
To ask questions about exhibitions, use the above address or:
Electronic mail: steve@media.mit.edu
Office: (617) 253-9610
Fax: (617) 253-8874
If your exhibition is accepted, we will put the exhibition summary
on the conference's World Wide Web page.
POSTERS
We invite researchers, especially students, to submit summaries
for posters that describe current work related to wearable
computing. The number of posters that are accepted for the
conference will be limited by available space. To apply to
present a poster, please do the following:
o Write a summary of the research project that you
plan to describe in your poster. Please describe
the problem, your approach, and the significance of
your results. The summary should not exceed 1,000
words (two pages) in length. Be sure to include
the poster author names, affiliations, addresses,
telephone numbers, and electronic mail addresses.
Also, identify the contact person for the poster.
o By April 4, 1997, send four paper copies of the
poster summary to:
Len Bass
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
To ask questions about papers, use the above address or:
Electronic mail: ljb@sei.cmu.edu
Office: (412) 268-6763
Fax: (412) 268-3399
If your poster is accepted, we will put the poster summary on
the conference's World Wide Web page.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due: April 4, 1997
Submitters notified: June 15, 1997
Final versions of papers due: July 15, 1997
ISWC conference: October 13-14, 1997
MIT gala event: October 15, 1997
ISWC COMMITTEE CHAIRS
General chair: Dan Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon
University
Program co-chairs: Len Bass, Carnegie Mellon University
Alex Pentland, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Local arrangements chair: Thad Starner, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Publicity co-chairs: Chris Thompson, Georgia Institute of
Technology
Larry Najjar, Georgia Institute of
Technology
Publications chair: Steve Mann, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
For additional information, please contact:
Dan Siewiorek
Electronic mail: dps@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu
or
Office 4124, Wean Hall
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 USA
Telephone: (412) 268-2570
Fax: (412) 268-5576.
Our World Wide Web page is http://mime1.marc.gatech.edu/wearcon/.
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