Call for Papers
The 11th BodySys workshop comes at a critical time–juncture where body centric computing based research that includes sensing, communication and computing based systems, have become prominent in the mobile computing space. Body centric computing has become more prominent than ever today with advancements in implantable computing, interest in through-body and intra-body communication and involving humans in the loop kind of systems. The use of smart sensing and diagnostic tools are becoming more common for monitoring animal pets and livestock (in smart agriculture).
BodySys will provide a venue for presenting current research and technology trends, and debating future research agendas of body-centric computing technology. It will provide a forum for discussing innovative and/or ideas that have potential for significant impact. We solicit papers of six or fewer pages that present preliminary research in broad areas of body-centric computing, with efforts inclusive of prototyping a system, experience in designing a novel technology, or survey of useful tools for designing inter-disciplinary systems and applications. We also encourage position papers that propose new directions for research or advocate disruptive design ideas and project applications. We also encourage submissions that can help bootstrap exploration of the body-centric computing space by the broader mobile systems community.
The focus areas include, but not limited to:
Workshop papers will be included with the UbiComp proceedings and posted in the ACM Digital Library. The workshop will run as a hybrid event in the time zone of the conference’s original venue. We will present a Best Paper Award to recognize outstanding contributions.
BodySys will provide a venue for presenting current research and technology trends, and debating future research agendas of body-centric computing technology. It will provide a forum for discussing innovative and/or ideas that have potential for significant impact. We solicit papers of six or fewer pages that present preliminary research in broad areas of body-centric computing, with efforts inclusive of prototyping a system, experience in designing a novel technology, or survey of useful tools for designing inter-disciplinary systems and applications. We also encourage position papers that propose new directions for research or advocate disruptive design ideas and project applications. We also encourage submissions that can help bootstrap exploration of the body-centric computing space by the broader mobile systems community.
The focus areas include, but not limited to:
- Human-in the loop systems
- Ubiquitous sensing systems
- Wearable in health, care, and well-being
- Large Language Models (LLMs) for humans
- Physical rehabilitation systems
- Human computer interaction (HCI) systems
- Sensing and Computing for Animals or Pets
- XR wearables, wearable imaging, projection and low-power displays
- Capacitive sensing and On-body communication
- Wearable health and wellness including activity monitoring, physiological sensing
- Novel energy management solutions (eg. swappable batteries, solar harvesting)
- Context sensitive notification delivery
- Wearable biometrics for payment and authentication
- Haptics and cognitive prosthetics
- Body energy harnessing
- Brain-interfaces
- Electromyography (EMG) interfaces
- Wearable fashion (eg. smart jackets, bodysuits, amulets), smart fabrics, smart patches
- AI on wearables: on-device ML/DL for wearable computing
- Novel combinations of 3D printing and Wearables (eg. integration with custom 3D printed sensors/encl.)
- Wearable infrastructure and toolkits (hardware/software, custom/open source)
- Wearable in ergonomics
- On-Body, Body-to-Body and Off-Body
Workshop papers will be included with the UbiComp proceedings and posted in the ACM Digital Library. The workshop will run as a hybrid event in the time zone of the conference’s original venue. We will present a Best Paper Award to recognize outstanding contributions.
Location
Aalto University
Espoo, Finland
Espoo, Finland
iMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline:
July 04, 2025 (AoE)
July 11, 2025 (AoE)
July 11, 2025 (AoE)
Notification of acceptance:
July 12, 2025 (AoE)
July 21, 2025 (AoE)
July 21, 2025 (AoE)
Camera-ready deadline:
July 26, 2025 (AoE)
July 26, 2025 (AoE)
Workshop date:
October 12 or 13, 2025
October 12 or 13, 2025
Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs
Qiang Yang
University of Cambridge
Thivya Kandappu
Singapore Management University
Steering Committee
- Jie Liu (Harbin Inst. of Technology., China)
- Suman Banerjee (Univ. Wisconsin Madison, USA)
- Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA)
- Mi Zhang (Michigan State University, USA)
- Ashwin Ashok (Georgia State University, USA)
Technical Program Committee
Technical Program Chair
TPC members
- Yang Liu (University of Cambridge, UK)
TPC members
- Zhenlin An (University of Georgia, USA)
- Tao Chen (Samsung Research America, USA)
- Kaiyan Cui(Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
- Ningning Hou (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Sijie Ji (California Institute of Technology, USA)
- Yang Liu (Nokia Bell Lab, UK)
- Dong Ma (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
- Xiaomin Ouyang (HKUST, Hong Kong)
- Meera Radhakrishnan (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
- Sougata Sen (BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa campus, India)
- Qijia Shao (HKUST, Hong Kong)
- Vigneshvaran Subbaraju (IHPC, A*STAR, Singapore)
- Yanwen Wang (Hunan University, China)
- Stephen Xia (Northwestern University, USA)
- Huanqi Yang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
- Zhimeng Yin (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Website/Publicity Chair
Yu Yvonne Wu (University of Cambridge, UK)
Submission Instructions
We invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication. All submissions must be provided in PDF format, and follow the formatting guidelines of Ubicomp 2025. Full papers must be no longer than 6 pages (including references and figures), and position papers are limited to 4 pages including references. BodySys follows a single-blinded review process.
Submission Site:
Please submit your work via https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi and select the BodySys track under UbiComp/ISWC 2025.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Qiang Yang via [email protected]
Program
Keynote Talk
Title: To be confirmed
Speaker: Prof. Daqing Zhang
Title: To be confirmed
Speaker: Prof. Daqing Zhang
Abstract: To be confirmed
Bio: Daqing Zhang is a Professor with Telecom SudParis, IP Paris, France. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, big data analytics and AIoT. He has published more than 400 technical papers in leading conferences and journals, with a citation of over 28200 and H-index of 86, where his work on OWL-based context model and Fresnel Zone-based wireless sensing theory are widely accepted by pervasive computing, mobile computing and service computing communities. He was the winner of the Ten Years CoMoRea Impact Paper Award at IEEE PerCom 2013 and Ten Years Most Influential Paper Award at IEEE UIC 2019 and FCS 2023, the Best Paper Award Runner-up at ACM MobiCom 2022, the Distinguished Paper Award of IMWUT (UbiComp 2021), etc.. He served as the general or program chair for more than a dozen of international conferences, and in the advisory board of Proceeding of ACM IMWUT. Daqing Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE and Member of Academy of Europe.
Bio: Daqing Zhang is a Professor with Telecom SudParis, IP Paris, France. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, big data analytics and AIoT. He has published more than 400 technical papers in leading conferences and journals, with a citation of over 28200 and H-index of 86, where his work on OWL-based context model and Fresnel Zone-based wireless sensing theory are widely accepted by pervasive computing, mobile computing and service computing communities. He was the winner of the Ten Years CoMoRea Impact Paper Award at IEEE PerCom 2013 and Ten Years Most Influential Paper Award at IEEE UIC 2019 and FCS 2023, the Best Paper Award Runner-up at ACM MobiCom 2022, the Distinguished Paper Award of IMWUT (UbiComp 2021), etc.. He served as the general or program chair for more than a dozen of international conferences, and in the advisory board of Proceeding of ACM IMWUT. Daqing Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE and Member of Academy of Europe.
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