BodyNets 2015 aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines to plan, analyse, design, build, deploy and experiment with/on body area networks (BANs).

TOPICS

We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following topics (but not limited to):

1. Wearable Computing

Chaired by Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria)

Pervasive user interface
Context and situation awareness
Augmented reality
Sensory augmentation
Motion detection and activity recognition
User modeling and personalization

2. Embedded Devices and Medical Applications

Chaired by Gang Zhou (College of William and Mary)

High-confidence medical devices
Integration of medical devices with healthcare systems
Medical device plug-and-play
Assistive technologies for independent aging
Pervasive health care and patient monitoring
New medical diagnostics and treatments
Ambient assisted living
Virtual hospitals

3. Communications and Networking

Chaired by Ming Li (Utah State University)

Various types of BANs, e.g. in-body, on-body and around-body networks
Signal/information processing and communication models in BANs
BAN architectures and protocols
Power-efficient communications
Wireless energy transfer
Delay-tolerance, fault-tolerance and reliability in BANs
Cloud computing and BANs
Cognitive networks for medical bands

4. Systems and Applications - Ambient Intelligence

Chaired by Qi Zhang (Aarhus University)

Sensing and actuation in BANs
Software engineering and systems engineering for BANs
Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments
Design and performance issues
Tools, testbeds and deployment issues
Wireless-to-bio interface/transduction
Standardization