Preliminary Program of iWOAR 2026
(Papers are temporary available until the proceedings are released with Springer!)
Thursday, September 10
| 9:00 - 9:20 |
Registration (Location: Building L - Lecture Hall L0.13.) |
| 9:20 - 9:30 |
Opening (General Chairs & Host Institution Representatives) |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
Keynote (Speaker Prof. Dr. Kristof Van Laerhoven) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Session #1: The Evolution and the Future of Human Activity Recognition(Chair: Kristina Kirsten)
The Evolution in Human Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence – A Decade of iWOAR
(Ruben Schlonsak, Marco Gabrecht and Denys J.C. Matthies)
Where to Sense Before What to Classify: A Full-Body Tracking Pilot Study on Real-Time HAR(Ruben Schlonsak, Marco Gabrecht, Jierui Li and Denys J.C. Matthies)
Inertial Pose-Based Human Activity Recognition From Sparse On-Body IMUs(Ricarda Link and Heiner Stuckenschmidt)
FootSense: A Foot-Centric Dataset and Framework for Energy-Efficient HAR and Terrain Recognition(Dominique Nshimyimana, Vitor Fortes Rey, Bo Zhou and Paul Lukowicz)
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Session #2: Advancing Activity Recognition: Sampling, Fusion, and Model Efficiency(Chair: Biying Fu) Integrating Adaptive Sampling into Deep Learning-Based Human Activity Recognition(Pavankumar Chandankar, Marius Bock, Juergen Gall, Michael Moeller and Kristof Van Laerhoven)
A Comparison of Fusion Techniques for Multi-Modal Human Activity Recognition on the HARMES Dataset(Ahmed Mohamady, Robin Burchard and Kristof Van Laerhoven)
PACE-HAR: Partitioned Adapter-Based Capacity Extension for Interference-Free Cross-Dataset Wearable Models(Vishal Banwari, Daniel Geissler, Bo Zhou and Paul Lukowicz)
Dual-Stage Pruning for Human Activity Recognition on Microcontrollers(Quang Thong Phan and Kristof Van Laerhoven)
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| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 14:30 - 15:30 |
Session #3: Wearable User Experience: Placement, Form Factor, and Interaction(Chair: Noel D’Avis)
Beyond the Pocket: A Large-Scale Survey on User Preferences of Bodily Placements of Wearable Technology
(Joanna Sorysz, Lars Krupp, Dominique Nshimyimana, Meagan B. Loerakker, Bo Zhou, Paul Lukowicz and Jakob Karolus)
I-Measure-Ur-♥! A Comprehensive Evaluation of Multi-Position Wearable SCG(Arina Borzistaia, Ruichao Cheng and Denys J.C. Matthies)
Forget the Dashboard? Ask the Shop Floor: Wearable Multi-Turn Voice Assistance for Smart Factories(Mathias Pelka)
JITAI-Wizard: An Open-Source Android and Wear OS Tool for Wearable Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions in Wizard-of-Oz Studies(Robin Burchard, Sebastian Jens Koschorreck, Jason Alexander Klaas and Kristof Van Laerhoven)
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| 15:30 - 15:40 |
Poster 1-min-Lightning-Talks (show accepted Short Papers) |
| 15:40 - 16:30 |
Poster Session & Plenary Discussion |
| 17:45 - 18:00 |
Transition to the Boat(Busses are provided) |
| 18:15 - 22:15 |
Best Paper Banquet & Dinner(Location: Wiesbaden-Biebrich - Primus Line) |
Friday, September 11
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Morning Gathering with Coffee |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Keynote (Speaker Dr. Andreas Braun) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Session #4: Trust, Privacy, and AI for Good(Chair: Denys J.C. Matthies)
Privacy Firewall for Older Adults: A Semantic Gateway for Trustworthy Ambient Assisted Living
(Tim Markwardt, Gerald Bieber, Purbaditya Bhattacharya and Christian Peter)
Evaluation of General-Purpose AI for Mouse Grimace Scale Assessment and Implications for Animal Welfare Metrics(Goutham Ravinaidu, Emily Leitner, Lucia Schulz, Bennet Blumstock, Purbaditya Bhattacharya, Brigitte Vollmar, Dietmar Zechner, Uwe Freiherr von Lukas, and Gerald Bieber)
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Session #5: Health, Wellbeing, and Movement Monitoring(Chair: Silvia Faquiri)
Real-Time Edge Detection of Anxiety and Stress Related Activities Using Multi-Scale TCNs and Self-Attention
(Ugonna Oleh and Roman Obermaisser)
Understanding Emotional and Behavioural Responses Through Physiological Signal Analysis Recorded During Theatrical Performance(Aditi Site, Annariina Lohiranta and Tarmo Lipping)
Multimodal Dataset and Evaluation Benchmarks for Pathological Gait Classification with Consumer-Grade Devices(Benjamin Lins, Adrian Ulges and Biying Fu)
Device-Free Fall Detection from LiDAR Point Clouds Using a Three-Keypoint Skeleton: A Subject-Independent Comparison of Simple and Graph-Convolutional Classifiers(Noel D'Avis and Silvia Faquiri)
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| 14:00 - 14:15 |
Closing Remarks & Best Paper Award (General Chairs) |
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline
July 07, 2026 - 23.59 (CET)
Author‘s Notification
August 01, 2026 - 23.59 (CET)
Poster Submission Deadline
August 14, 2026 - 23.59 (CET)
Author Registration Deadline
Sept. 01, 2026 - 23.59 (CET)
Begin of Event
Sept. 10, 2026 - 9.00 (CET)
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