Technical Program

• Title: Body Sensor Networks for Health-care Monitoring: Premises, Challenges and Prospective
• Speaker: Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas

• Title: Energy-efficient Design for Mobile Phone-Centered Wireless Body Area Networks
• Speaker: Lin Zhong, Rice University

Welcome Address: Dr. Deirdre Meldrum, Dean, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University.

Opening Remarks: Dr. Sethuraman (Panch) Panchanathan, General Chair,
Dr. Sandeep K. S. Gupta, TPC Chair.

• Title: Artificial Intelligence on the Body, in the Home, and Beyond
• Speaker: Dr. Diane Cook, Washington State University

Center for Adaptive Neural Systems Best Paper Award Presentation
Dr. James Abbas and Dr. Ranu Jung, Co-Directors of Center for Adaptive Neural Systems, Arizona State University.

• The SmartCane System: An Assistive Device for Geriatrics (Short Paper)
  Winston Wu, Lawrence Au, Brett Jordan, Thanos Stathopoulos, Maxim Batalin, William Kaiser, Alireza Vahdatpour, Majid Sarrafzadeh, Meika Fang, Joshua Chodosh
• Preliminary Studies for the development of a Ubiquitous Computing and Health-monitoring System for Wheelchair Users (Work-in-Progress Paper)
  Jongbae Kim, Sangyeun Cho , Seung-Jae Kim
• A wireless platform for fall and mobility monitoring in health care (Short Paper)
  Pepijn W J Van de Ven, Alan Bourke, John Nelson, Gearaid O’Laighin
• Physiological Signal Monitoring in the Waiting Areas of an Emergency Room (Regular Paper)
  Dorothy Curtis, Jason Waterman, Jacob Bailey, Eugene Shih, Thomas Stair, John Guttag, Robert Greenes, Lucila Ohno-Machado

• Distributed Pervasive Services using Group Service communication supporting Body Area Networks (Regular Paper)
  Christopher Foley, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dimitri Botvich, William Donnelly, Stefan Michaelis, Jens Schmutzer, Thomas Stair
• Service Discovery and Composition in Body Area Networks (Short Paper)
  Matteo Coloberti, Clemens Lombriser , Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Troester, Renata Guarneri, Daniele Riboni
• A Framework for Creating Healthcare Monitoring Applications Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks (Work-in-Progress Paper)
  Sameer Iyengar , Filippo Tempia , Raffaele Gravina , Antonio Guerrieri , Giancarlo Fortino , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
• CareNet: An Integrated Wireless Sensor Networking Environment for Remote Healthcare (Work-in-Progress Paper)
  Yuan Xue , Stephen Wicker , Philip J Kuryloski , Shanshan Jiang , Roozbeh Jafari, Ruzena Bajcsy , Yanchuan Cao , Sameer Iyengar

Lunch, Welcome by General Chair
Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State University.

• Effect of quantization on beamforming in binaural hearing aids (Short Paper)
  Sriram Srinivasan , Ashish Pandharipande , Kees Janse
• Investigation of Wireless Data Transmission between Hearing Aids (Short Paper)
  Crista L. Malick, Steven J. Franke, Qi Xie, Jennifer T. Bernhard, Mitesh Parikh, Douglas L. Jones, and Francois Callias
• Body-Coupled Communication for Body Sensor Networks (Short Paper)
  Adam Barth, Stephen Wilson, Mark Hanson, Harry Powell , Dincer Unluer, John Lach
• Analysis of Body Sensor Network Using Human Body as the Channel (Short Paper)
  Jerald Yoo, Namjun Cho, Hoi-Jun Yoo

• Adapting Radio Transmit Power in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (Regular Paper)
  Shuo Xiao, Vijay Sivaraman, and Alison Burdett
• Approaches to Self-Powered Biochemical Sensors for In-Vivo Application (Work-in-Progress Paper)
  Eric M. Yeatman, Danny O’Hare, Cate Dobson, Eleni Bitziou
• Joint Encryption/Multiple Access for Body Area Sensor Networks (Work-in-Progress Paper)
  Walter D. Leon-Salas, Yugyung Lee, Deep Medh

• Venue: iStage/Digital Arts Ranch
• Organizer: Dr. Ellen Campana, Assistant Professor, Arts Media and Engineering, Arizona State University

• Title: On Innovation, Quality of Life and Technology of BodyNets
• Speaker: Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Topic: Context Aware Computing in Healthcare
• Organizer: Mary Murphy-Hoye (Intel Corp.)
• Participants:
  
  • Dan Siewiorek (CMU)
  • Pat Langley (ASU)
  • Atul Hatalkar (Intel Corp.)
  • Celeste Null (Intel Corp.)
  • Lam Nachman (Intel Corp.)

• ECG Segmentation in a Body Sensor Network Using Adaptive Hidden Markov Models (Regular Paper)
  Huaming Li, Jindong Tan
• Body Posture Identification using Hidden Markov Model with Wearable Sensor Networks (Regular Paper)
  Muhannad Quwaider, Subir Biswas
• Classifying Wheelchair Propulsion Patterns with a Wrist Mounted Accelerometer (Short Paper)
  Brian French, Asim Smailagic, Dan Siewiorek, Vishnu Ambur, Divya Tyamagundlu
• Analysis of human performance using physiological data streams (Short Paper)
  Gaurav Pradhan, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

• SMASH: A Distributed Sensing and Processing Garment for the Classification of Upper Body Postures (Regular Paper)
  Holger Harms, Oliver Amft, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Troester
• Modeling of EOG and Electrode Position Optimization for Human-Computer Interface (Short Paper)
  Niina Nojd, Jari Hyttinen
• An Architecture for Smart Textiles (Work-in-Progress)
  Mark T Jones, Thomas Martin, Braden Sawyer

• On the performance of Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.4 radios in a body area network (Regular Paper)
  Rahul C. Shah, Lama Nachman and Chieh-yih Wan
• IEEE Body Area Network And Medical Implant Communication (Short Paper)
  Bin Zhen, Huan-Bang Li, Ryuji Kohno
• Novel QoS Scheduling and Energy-saving MAC protocol for Body Sensor Networks Optimization (Short Paper)
  Begonya Otal, Luis Alonso, Christos Verikoukis

• The Speckled Golfer (Regular Paper)
  D K Arvind, Andrew Bates
• A Wearable Wireless RFID System for Accessible Shopping Environments (Regular Paper)
  Sreekar Krishna, Vineeth Balasubramanian , Narayanan Chatapuram Krishnan , Terri Hedgpeth
• SerPens -- A Tool for Semantically Enriched Location Information on Personal Devices (Work-in-Progress Paper)
  Sourav Bhattacharya, Joonas Kukkonen, Petteri Nurmi, Patrik Flore en