The Second International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC); October 19-20, 1998

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DESCRIPTION

The International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) is the second annual conference on wearable computing. The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. 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.

You are invited to attend ISWC and to submit proposals for paper presentations, posters, exhibitions, and demonstrations. The IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the papers and poster summaries in a conference proceedings; all papers, poster summaries, and exhibition summaries will also be published on the World Wide Web.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

• 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
• Ergonomics
• Future of wearable computing
• Hardware, including head-mounted display technologies, batteries, power management, heat dissipation techniques, industrial design techniques, and manufacturing & packaging issues
• Human interface issues, including hands-free user speech recognition, mobility-challenged users, user modeling, user evaluations, and health issues
• Networks, including wireless networks, on-body networks, the World Wide Web, and networked vs. standalone computers
• Operating system issues
• Social implications
• Software architectures
• Training, including performance support systems

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