Monday – September 28, 2015
9:00 – Session 1.1 - Opening Remarks (Prof. Eryk Dutkiewicz, Macquarie University, Australia)
Keynote Speech 1
Kevin Crowe, Cochlear
Keynote Speech: Cochlear Implants in a Wireless World
Keynote Speech 2
Prof. Branko Celler, UNSW & CSIRO, Australia
Keynote Speech: Monitoring of vital signs at home for the management of chronic disease
10:30 Morning Tea
11:00 - Session 1.2 - Chaired by: Ren Ping Liu, CSIRO, Australia / Wearable Computing
- AcuGlass: Quantifying Acupuncture Therapy using Google Glass
Haotian Jiang, James Starkman and Ming-Chun Huang
- WISEglass: Smart eyeglasses recognising context
Florian Wahl, Martin Freund and Oliver Amft
- Correlations between Inertial Body Sensor Measures and Clinical Measures in Multiple Sclerosis
Jiaqi Gong, Matthew Engelhard, Myla Goldman and John Lach
- The Speckled Cellist : Classification of Cello Bowing Styles using the Orient Specks
Debadri Mukherjee and D K Arvind
- A smart phone based gait monitor system
Dong Qin and Ming-Chun Huang
12:30pm - Lunch break
2:00pm - Session 1.3 - Chaired by: Mehmet Yuce, Monash University, Australia / Embedded Devices and Medical Applications
- Ear-Lead Multiple Smart Bio Sensor System in M-health
Numan Celik, Wamadeva Balachandran and Nadarajah Manivannan
- Body-IMU autocalibration for inertial hip and knee joint tracking
Sarvenaz Salehi, Gabriele Bleser, Attila Reiss and Didier Stricker
- Muscle Strength Testing using Wearable Wireless Sensors
Debadri Mukherjee and D K Arvind
- WE-Harvest: A Wearable Piezoelectric-Electromagnetic Energy Harvester
Mehmet Yuce, Rawnak Hamid and Ali Mohammadi
- Miniaturized Implantable DS-PIFA Antenna for Biomedical Applications
Farhad Gozasht and Ananda Sanagavarapu Mohan
3:30 Afternoon Tea
4:00pm - Session 1.4 - Chaired by: Raffaele Gravina (University of Calabria, Italy), Prof. Junichi Suzuki (University of Massachusetts Boston) / ST6: Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks (CBAN)
- Personalized neuroscience: User modeling of cognitive function and brain activity in the cloud
Teresa Nick, Laura Berman and Arye Barnehama
- Using Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks to Track People Physical Activity in Mobility
Giancarlo Fortino, Raffaele Gravina, Wenfeng Li and Congcong Ma
- Cloud based Software Defined Wireless Body Area Networks Architecture for Virtual Hospital
Md Al Shayokh, Abebe Abeshu and Soo Young Shin
- Mauka-Mauka : Measuring and Predicting Opportunities for Webcam-based Heart Rate Sensing in Workplace Environment
Mridula Singh, Abhishek Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Himanshu Madhu and Tridib Mukherjee
- Energy Efficient Duty Cycle Design based on Quantum Immune Clonal Evolutionary Algorithm in Body Area Networks Jie Zhou, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Ren Ping Liu, Gengfa Fang and Yuanan Liu
Tuesday – September 29, 2015
9:00am - Session 2.1 - Chaired by: Matti Hämäläinen, Oulu University, Finland / Ultra Wideband for Body Area Networking (UWBAN-2015)
Keynote: Robust Wideband Printed Antennas for Body-Centric Communications
Roy B. V. B. Simorangkir, Syed Muzahir Abbas and Karu P. Esselle
- Energy Efficiency Evaluation of ECC Scheme Utilizing Decomposable Codes in IEEE Std 802.15.6 Based WBANs
Kento Takabayashi, Heikki Karvonen, Tuomas Paso, Hirokazu Tanaka, Chika Sugimoto and Ryuji Kohno
- Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4-2011 IR-UWB System with Enhanced Modulation Scheme
Tuomas Paso, Ville Niemelä, Jussi Haapola, Matti Hämäläinen and Jari Iinatti
- Impact of On-Body Channel models on positioning success rate with UWB Wirelss Body Area Networks
Arturo Guizar, Claire Goursaud and Bernard Uguen
10:30am - Morning Tea
11:00am - Session 2.2 - Chaired by: Ildiko Peter (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Ladislau
Matekovits (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)j / Body Area NanoNETworks: Electromagnetic, Materials and Communications (BANN-EMC):
- Sub-threshold Energy Harvesters Circuits for Biomedical Implants Applications
Meriam Gay Bautista, Eryk Dutkiewicz and Michael Heimlich
- Design and Simulation of a Low-Actuation-Voltage MEMS Switch
Yasser Mafinejad, Abbas Kouzani and Ladislau Matekovits
uploads/Physical channel modeling by calcium signaling in molecular communication based nanonetwork.pdf / Dr Amitava Mukherjee, Sushovan Das, Soumallya Chatterjee, Biresh Kumar Joardar, Mrinal K. Naskar
Design and Analysis of a Wireless Nanosensor Network for Monitoring Human Lung Cells
Eisa Zarepour, Najmul Hassan, Mahbub Hassan, Chun Tung Chou and Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani
- Modeling and Experimental Analysis of an In-body Area Nanonetwork
Valeria Loscrí, Ladislau Matekovits, Ildiko Peter and Anna Maria Vegni
- Bio-compatibility of metallic alloys for body-area communication systems Ildiko Peter and Mario Rosso
12:30 - Lunch break
2:00pm - Session 2.3 - Chaired by: Angelo Maria Sabatini (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy), Rezaul Begg (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia) / Sensors and Algorithms for Human Motion Analysis and Classification (SAHM)
Gait Parameters Change Prior to Freezing in Parkinson's Disease: A Data-Driven Study with Wearable Inertial Units Maria Laura Ferster, Sinziana Mazilu and Gerhard Tröster
A smartphone-centered wearable sensor network for fall risk assessment in the elderly
Andrea Mannini and Angelo Maria Sabatini
- Support Vector Machines for Young and Older Gait Classification using Inertial Sensor Kinematics at Minimum Toe Clearance
Braveena K. Santhiranayagam, Daniel T. H. Lai and Rezaul K. Begg
- Estimating Calorie Expenditure from Output Voltage of Piezoelectric Energy Harvester - an Experimental Feasibility Study
Guohao Lan, Sara Khalifa, Mahbub Hassan and Wen Hu
- mBeacon: Accurate, robust proximity detection with smart phones and smart watches using low frequency modulated magnetic fields
Gerald Pirkl, Peter Hevesi, Jingyuan Cheng and Paul Lukowicz
- Simultaneous estimation of WCE moving distance and heading direction based on RSSI-based localization
Takahiro Ito, Daisuke Anzai and Jianqing Wang
3:30pm – Afternoon Tea
4:00pm - Session 2.4 - Chaired by: Syed Muzahir Abbas, Macquarie University, Australia / Poster Session
- Securing the Timestamping of Sensor Data from Wearable Healthcare Devices
Muhammad Siddiqi, Gerard Hager, Vijay Sivaraman and Sanjay Jha
- Feasibility of a low-cost platform for physiological recording in affective computing applications
Hamed Monkaresi and Rafael A. Calvo
Diagnosing Bipolar Disorders in a Wearable Device Chao Gui and Jie Zhu
Multilayered Phantom for Input Impedance Evaluation of Human Body Communication Electrodes Dairoku Muramatsu, Fukuro Koshiji, Kohji Koshiji and Ken Sasaki
Posture Sensor: Cross Leg Detection at Knee Level Siva Leela Krishna Chand Gudi, Nadea Nabilla Putri and Soo Young Shin
7:00pm – Gala Dinner
Wednesday – September 30, 2015
9:00am - Session 3.1 - Chaired by: Yuichi Kado, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan / Human Body Communications (HBCM):
- Driver’s ECG Signal Detection and Transmission by Impulse-Radio-Based Human Body Communication Technology
Jianqing Wang, Taku Kato and Daisuke Anzai
An Empirical Measurement of Signal Attenuation and BER of IEEE 802.15.6 HBC using a phantom solution Kim Taylor and Daniel Lai
Maximization of Received Signal Power by Impedance Matching in Human Body Communication Receiver Naruto Arai, Dairoku Muramatsu and Ken Sasaki
Signal Interference Analysis Model In Near-Field Coupling Communication Shin Hasegawa, Ibuki Yokota, Masaki Ishida, Hitoshi Shimasaki, Yuichi Kado and Mitsuru Shinagawa
Noise measurement via human body for intra-body communication Yuki Hayashida, Mari Hasegawa, Akito Suzuki, Mitsuru Shinagawa, Yuichi Kado and Nozomi Haga
10:30am - Morning Tea
11:00am - Session 3.2 - Chaired by Wei Ni, CSIRO, Australia / Communications and Networking
Low Energy Clustering in BAN Based on Fuzzy Simulated Evolutionary Computation Jie Zhou, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Ren Ping Liu, Gengfa Fang and Yuanan Liu
Transmission Policies for Energy Harvesting Sensors Based on Markov Chain Energy Supply Wenxiang Zhu, Pingping Xu and Maozong Zheng
Analysis of Indoor Rowing Motion using Wearable Inertial Sensors Stephan Bosch, Muhammad Shoaib, Stephen Geerlings, Lennart Buit, Nirvana Meratnia and Paul Havinga
A Dual-channel Routing Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks Sobia Omer, Rein Vesilo, Eryk Dutkiewicz and Qi Zhang
Energy Harvested IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Body Area Network Thien D. Nguyen, Jamil Y. Khan and Duy T. Ngo
Foot Motion Measurement for Home based Rehabilitation Using Distributed Wearable Sensor Sen Qiu and Zhelong Wang
12:30pm – Lunch Break
2:00pm - Session 3.3 - Chaired by: Eryk Dutkiewicz, Macquarie University, Australia / Systems and Applications- Ambient Intelligence
Towards Implantable Body Sensor Networks - Performance of MICS Band Radio Communication in Animal Tissue Vignesh Raja Karuppiah Ramachandran, Kui Zhang, Nirvana Meratnia and Paul J M Havinga
Low-threshold CMOS Rectifier Design for Energy Harvesting in biomedical sensors Ali Mohammadi, Mehmet Yuce and Jean-Michel Redoute
Frequency Modulation based Resistive Sensing for Wearable Galvanic Skin Response Md Shamsul Arefin, Jean-Michel Redoute and Mehmet Rasit Yuce
Toward Detection and Monitoring of Gait Pathology using Inertial Sensors under Rotation, Scale, and Offset Invariant Dynamic Time Warping Matthew Engelhard, Sriram Dandu, John Lach, Myla Goldman and Stephen Patek
Estimation and Tracking of Knee Angle Trajectory using Inertial Sensors and a Smartphone Application Jaskaran Grover and Venkat Natarajan
Exploring the Dominant-Hand Effect Using a Multi-Scale SEMG Model Chi-Yu Wu, Ching-Fen Jiang and Nan-Ying Yu
3:30pm - Afternoon Tea
4:00pm - Session 3.4 - Chaired by: Sanjay Jha (University of New South Wales, Australia) / ST5+ST3: Unconventional Intrabody Communication (UNIC) & Privacy, Security and Trust in Body Area Networks (PSTB)
Metallic Plasmonic Nano-antenna for Wireless Optical Communication in Intra-body Nanonetworks Mona Nafari and Josep Miquel Jornet
Mobility Independent Secret Key Generation for Wearable Health-care Devices Girish Revadigar, Chitra Javali, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen and Sanjay Jha
Secret Key Generation by Virtual Link Estimation Chitra Javali, Girish Revadigar, Ming Ding and Sanjay Jha
Stretchable and Highly Conductive Carbon Nanotube-Graphene Hybrid Yarns for Wearable Systems Syed Muzahir Abbas, Jawad Foroughi, Yogesh Ranga, Ladislau Matekovits, Karu Esselle, Stuart Hay, Michael Heimlich and Farzad Safaei
