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International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks
April 4-5, 2006
MIT Media Lab, Boston
United States
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Session 1: Clinical Applications
chair: Stephen Wong (
Harvard
University
)
§ Invited Talk An Exploratory Social-Emotional Prosthetic for Autism Spectrum Disorders
R. el Kaliouby, A. Teeters and R. Picard (MIT Media Laboratory)
§ Using Wearable Sensors to Measure Motor Abilities Following Stroke
T. Hester, R. Hughes, D. Sherrill (Harvard Med. Sch.), B. Knorr (Dartmouth College), M. Akay (Arizona State U.), J. Stein (Harvard Med. Sch.) and P. Bonato (Harvard-MIT Divison of HST)
§ Biomotion Community-Wearable Human Activity Monitor: Total Knee Replacement and Healthy Control Subjects
D. E. Krebs, J. I. Huddleston, D. Goldvasser, D. M. Scarborough, W. H. Harris, H. Malchau (MIT, Mass. General Hospital.and Harvard Med. Sch.)
§ Pervasive Body Sensor Network: An Approach to Monitoring the Post-operative Surgical Patient
O. Aziz, B. Lo, R. King, A. Darzi and G. Yang (
Imperial
College
)
Session 2: Wearable Sensors
chair: Paul Lukowicz (UMIT-University for Health Sciences,
Austria
)
§ Invited Talk Thermal Energy Harvesting with Thermo Life
I. Stark (Thermo Life Energy Corp.)
§ Fully Integrated EKG Shirt based on Embroidered Electrical Interconnections with Conductive Yarn and Miniaturized Flexible Electronics
T. Linz, C. Kallmayer, R. Aschenbrenner and H. Reichl (Fraunhofer IZM)
§ DC Behavior of Conductive Fabric Networks with Application to Wearable Sensor Nodes
E. Wade and H. H. Asada (MIT)
§ Combining Wireless with Wearable Technology for the Development of On-Body Networks
S. Brady, B. Carson, D. O Շorman, N. Moyna and D. Diamond (
Dublin
City
U.
)
Session 3: Power Issues and RF Communication
chair: Alison Burdett (Toumaz Technology Ltd.)
§ Invited Talk Ultra Low Power Electronics for Medicine
R. Sarpeshkar (MIT)
§ Thin Film Piezoelectric Energy Scavenging Systems for Long Term Medical Monitoring
E. K. Reilly, E. Carleton and P. K. Wright (U of
California
,
Berkeley
)
§ Rotating and Gyroscopic MEMS Energy Scavenging
E. M. Yeatman (
Imperial
College
)
§ An Omnidirectional Transcutaneous Power Link for Capsule Endoscopy
B. Lenaerts and R. Puers (
Katholieke
U.
Leuven
)
§ Characterization of the Path Loss near Flat and Layered Biological Tissue for Narrowband Wireless Body Area Networks
L. Roelens, W. Joseph and L. Martens (
Ghent
U.
)
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Session 4: Sensor Network Platforms
chair: Torsten Linz (
Fraunhofer IZM
,
Berlin
)
§ Invited Talk Imperceptible Wearable Sensors for Continuous Health Monitoring
Prof. Harry Asada (MIT)
§ BASUMA – The Sixth Sense for Chronically Ill Patients
T. Falck, J. Espina (Philips Research Laboratories), J. Ebert and D. Dietterle (IHP GmbH – Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics)
§ HealthGear: A Real-time Wearable System for Monitoring and Analyzing Physiological Signals
O. Nuria and F. Flores-Mangas (Microsoft Research)
§ A Compact, Wireless, Wearable Sensor Network for Interactive Dance Ensembles
R. Aylward, S. D. Lovell and J. Paradiso (MIT Media Laboratory)
Session 5: Information Processing & Security
chair: Alex (
Sandy
) Pentland (MIT Media Lab)
§ Invited Talk Configurable Sensor Nodes
P. van der Stok (Philips Research Laboratories)
§ Multi-sensor Data Fusion Using the Influence Model
W. Dong, and A. Pentland (MIT Media Laboratory)
§ Combination of Body Sensor Networks and On-Body Signal Processing Algorithms: the practical case of MyHeart project
J. Luprano, J. Sola, S. Dasen, J.M. Koller and O. Chetelat (Centre Suisse d'electronique et de Microtechnique SA)
§ Resource-Efficient Security for Medical Body Sensor Networks
O Garcia Morchin, H. Baldus (Philips Research Laboratories) and D. Sanchez Sanchez (U. Pompeu Fabra)
§ A Design Proposal of Security Architecture for Body Sensor Networks with Medical Care Applications
S. Bao (Chinese U. of Hong Kong, Southeast U.), Y. Zhan (Chinese U. of Hong Kong) and L. Shen (Southeast U.)
Session 6: Implantable Sensors
chair: Jon Cooper (
University
of
Glasgow
)
§ Invited Talk A Direct Brain Interface To Restore Function In Humans With Spinal Cord Injury
§ Stimulating and Sensing Network Inside the Human Body
J. H. Schulman (Alfred Mann Foundation)
§ Electrochemical Methods for Monitoring Neurotransmitter Dynamics in vitro: From Theory to Experiments
C. A. Anastassiou, B. A. Patel, K. H. Parker and D. O Ոare (
Imperial
College
)
§ An Autonomous Smart Dental Prosthesis for Fast Rehabilitation
J. Van Ham, M. De Cooman, W. Claes, R. Puers, I. Naert, (
Katholieke
U.
Leuven
) C Van Lierde (Materialise) and J.L. Beckers (Uni-Dent N.V.)
Session 7: Clinical Applications
chair: Terry Dishongh (Intel Research)
§ Invited Talk Steps Toward the Development of a Chronic Retinal Implant
J. Wyatt (MIT)
§ Experiments in the Detection of Upper Limb Posture through Kinestetic Strain Sensors T.
Giorgino, S. Quaglini ( U. of Pavia), F. Lorussi and D. De Rossi ( U. of Pisa)
§ Activity Recognition and Monitoring Using Multiple Sensors on Different Body Positions
U. Maurer (
Technische
U.
Munchen), A. Smailagic, D. P. Siewiorek (Carnegie Mellon U.) and M. Deisher (Intel)
§ Remotely Supporting Care Provision for Older Adults
A. A. Reeves, J.W.P.Ng, S.J.Brown and N.M. Barnes (Pervasive ICT Research Centre, BT)
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