ISWC 2018: Towards Smarter Wearable Technologies That Blend With Our Bodies

Abstract

& WEARABLES ARE OFTEN associated with smart watches or clunky accessories. Yet the vision of wearable computing is to create computational systems that tightly couple with our bodies. To discuss the newest trends in this field, wearable computing researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts met at the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) in Singapore in October 2018. Following long-standing tradition, the conference was colocated with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. This year, we received 108 submissions (62 long papers, 29 short papers, and 17 briefs) with an acceptance rate of 27% for the long paper track.