iWOAR 2024
26. - 27. September 2024
Potsdam, Germany


Contact: iwoar2024[at]@hpi[dot].de
iWOAR 2024 - 9th international Workshop on Sensor-Based Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
26. - 27. September 2024, Potsdam
In the past years, the increasing acceptance of wearable sensors has opened new possibilities of applications aiming to better understand the human body, including (but not limited to) human activity recognition, emotion and stress recognition, pain recognition, sleep analysis, nutrition medicine. Due to their ability to collect large amounts of data in unobtrusive ways, wearable devices have attracted the interest of various actors in both the academic and industrial fields, and given them an incentive to develop solutions for the continuous monitoring of the human state in a daily life, workplace or medical context. For these reasons, wearable computing has become an active field of research, with on-going investigations to propose user-friendly and unobtrusive systems that provide high performing services.

The iWOAR is a conference-like workshop organized by the Hasso Plattner Institute. It offers scientists, interested parties, and users in the area of human activity recognition - and on a more general level wearable computing - the possibility of an exchange of experiences, a presentation of best-practice examples, as well as technical and scientific results. The workshop focuses on technologies and methods for human activity recognition using inertial sensors (accelerometers, gyroscopes, etc.), and other applications of wearable computing related to the understanding of the human body. Thereby, the following topics and fields of application will be addressed:

Human Activity Recognition
Affective Computing
Artificial intelligence for wearables
Real-time Activity Recognition
Synthetic Data Generation
Assistive Technologies
Privacy and Ethical Considerations in Activity Recognition
Pervasive & Wearable Computing
Personalized Diagnostics and Therapy
Quantified Self / Biofeedback
Applications for (Mental) Health, Therapy and Rehabilitation
Design and Conceptual Innovations in Sensor Networks
We invite for academic research papers and for best-practice industrial research approaches. Accepted submissions will be published in the iWOAR 2024 Proceedings online in the SpringerLink digital library.
This year there were 28 submissions. All submissions underwent a peer review process to assure high quality content. Each submission was reviewed by at least 2, maximum 3 and on the average 2.1, program committee members. The program committee chairs decided to accept 15 papers. This resulted in an overall acceptance rate of 68%. Submissions came from all other the globe including these countries: Austria, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, UAE, United States, and Vietnam. This year we invited two keynote talks by Prof. Dr. Thomas Plötz and Prof. Dr. Özlem Durmaz Incel. The Best Paper Award was awarded to Susanna Peretti, Chiara Contoli and Emanuele Lattanzi, for the paper entitled "An Experimental Study on the Energy Efficiency of Feature Selection for Human Activity Recognition with Wrist-worn Devices".

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Important Dates
Poster Submission Deadline
August 1, 2024 - 23.59 (CET)

Paper Submission Deadline
June 15, 2024 - 23.59 (CET)
July 7, 2024 - 23.59 (CET)

Author‘s Notification
July 31, 2024 - 23.59 (CET)

Author Registration Deadline
Sept. 20, 2024 - 23.59 (CET)

Begin of Event
Sept. 26, 2024 - 9.00 (CET)

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