-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICST - Call for Papers BodyNets 2008 Datum: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:54:25 -0400 Von: info@icstconferences.org Antwort an: info@icst.org An: wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS 2008)

March 13-17, 2008 Tempe, Arizona, USA

In Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI Technical Sponsorship: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems Co-sponsors: Create-Net and ICST

http://impact.asu.edu/bodynets or http://www.bodynets.org/

PAPER REGISTRATION: SEPTEMBER 24, 2007 (11:59 PDT) MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: OCTOBER 1, 2007 (11:59 PDT) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SCOPE:

Recent advances in the field of wireless sensor networks have moved them beyond their traditional areas of application in monitoring of remote and mobile environments. Sensor networks are increasingly being deployed within and at the surface of the human body to form Body Area Networks (BodyNets). BodyNets allow for unidirectional (monitoring) and even bidirectional (effector) interactions. They can be utilized in diverse applications such as physiological monitoring, human computer interactions, education and entertainment through interactive games. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying BodyNets. In this regard, the conference aims to establish a forum to bring together research professionals from diverse fields including computer science, biomedical engineering and medicine in both academia and industry to address the technical, social, systems and application issues related to BodyNets.

BodyNets 2008 invites submissions that describe original, research work not published and are not currently under review elsewhere. The topics of interest include (but not limited to): * BodyNets Systems and Technology - Novel communication techniques and protocols - In-vivo, on-body, near-body networks - Performance modeling - System design issues + Powering + Reliability and fault-tolerance + Security and privacy, including HIPAA for medical applications * HCI/Wearable Computing - Social impacts - Usability - Brain Computer Interactions - Wearable system design issues - Entertainment - Assistive technologies (for aging and disabled) * Medical Applications - Pervasive health care and patient monitoring + within hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings + in residential and other non healthcare delivery settings - BodyNets for prosthetics - Novel medical applications of BodyNets

Extended version of technically superior papers will be invited for IEEE JSAC special issue on Body Area Networks: Technology and Applications (see: http://impact.asu.edu/BodyAreaNetworksCFP.pdf) and meritorious papers related to multimedia issues will be invited for IEEE Multimedia.

----------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------------- Paper Registration: Sept 24, 2007 (11:59 PDT) Paper Submission Deadline: Oct 1, 2007 (11:59 PDT) Notification of Acceptance: Dec 10, 2007 Camera Ready Deadline: Jan 21, 2008 Conference Dates: March 13-17, 2008

-------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: -------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit PDF versions of full papers of up to 8 pages, short papers of up to 4 pages, and poster papers of up to 2 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it). Please check conference web-site for detailed instructions.

------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL CHAIR: Sethuraman Panchanathan, ASU, USA

TPC CHAIR: Sandeep K. S. Gupta, ASU, USA,

TPC Co-Chairs: HCI/Wearable Computing: Daniel Siewiorek, CMU, USA

Medical Applications: Timothy Buchman, WUSTL, USA

Wireless Networking: Loren Schwiebert, WSU, USA

INDUSTRY TRACK CO-CHAIRS: Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research Mary-Murphy Hoye, Intel Corp.

CONFERENCE CO-ORDINATOR: Zita Rozsa, ICST Europe

PUBLICITY CHAIR and WEBMASTER: Krishna Venkatasubramanian, ASU, USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Georgios Varsamopoulos, ASU, USA

PUBLICATION CHAIR: Leif Hanlen, NICTA, AU

SPONSORSHIP CHAIR: Gianni Giorgetti, ASU, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy

GENERAL VICE CHAIR: David Tacconi, Create-Net, Italy

--------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: --------------------------------------------------------- See http://impact.asu.edu/bodynets

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