Scope and Topics

The rise of wearable/embodied technologies and personal/body area networks has successfully bridged our personal physical and cyber worlds in recent years. Internet of People (IoP) represents the mapping of social individuals and their interactions with smart devices to the Internet. It focuses on data collection, modelling, and ubiquitous intelligence for a wide range of applications of crowd sourced, Internet-based personal information. Likewise, the emerging social and sentiment analysis computing, behaviour modelling and novel human/environment interaction mechanisms, e.g. brain, audible or augmented reality computing, will allow further incorporation of the social and mental worlds into the so-called Hyper World. Due to the pervasiveness of IoP and its impacts on human activity, it has quickly emerged as an important interdisciplinary field which encompasses IoT, HCI, bio-inspired algorithms with behavioural and social sciences. In essence, a Smart World is only possible if there is a better and smarter collaboration between devices and people, where technology is applied from a human-centric and driven standpoint, i.e. following the Internet of People paradigm. 

The topics include, but are not limited to:

– Social Computing and Social Internet of Things
– Social Networks and Behavior Analysis
– Behaviour Change Analysis
– Internet of Sensing, Thinking and Creation
– Gamification and user-engagement approaches
– Human-Centric Computing and Cyber-Physical-SocialSystems
– Crowd Sensing and Human Intelligence
– Biometric Sensors and Activity Recognition
– Brain Information Sensing and Processing
– Brain-Computer Interface/Brain-Machine Interface
– Novel ubiquitous interaction mechanisms
– Wearable Computing and Implant Technology
– Personal Big Data Analytics
– Sentiment Analysis and Affective Computing
– AI-powered Smart Devices
– Personal and Social Robotics
– Personal Internet-based Healthcare, Wellbeing and Wellness
– IoP Big Data Processing and Urban Computing
– IoP Systems Modeling, Simulation and Optimization
– IoP Security, Privacy, Trust, Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Laws
 
Submission Guidelines

Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Please click the "submission" link in the left index column for submitting your papers in PDF file
 
Publications

Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals.