Technical Report

Issue 54 : March, 2016

SMC Technical Committee on:

“Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices”

Interactive devices refer to any physical and tangible entity with which both human users and other

devices or machines can interact. This new SMC Technical Committee (TC) focuses on those

devices that human users can wear, such as smart watches, health monitoring electronics, smart

glasses, head mounted stereo display, exoskeletons, body worn sensors, etc. An interactive and

wearable device (IWD) usually provides multimodal interfacing, sensory, and/or even

actuating/motoring capabilities in addition to wearability, smartness, data input, communication and

data recording and analysis. There are many potential applications, particularly in healthcare,

wellness, consumer electronics, entertainment, Smart-* (home, buildings, factory, port, city) and

military. With the recent availability of products on the market, such as Google Glasses, Apple

iWatch, Shimmer wearable sensors, and many other more, IWD continues to attract the interest of

both research communities and industry sectors and is expected to grow rapidly on the horizon.

IWD coupled with computing and systems is very multi-disciplinary and the research frontiers

include user interface, multimodal interaction, smart sensors and actuators, body area networks,

mobile computing, ambient intelligence, communications, user safety, security, minimization, and

others. These research fields and applications fall well within the scope of the SMC Society and

there is a large population of researchers working in these areas. The SMC society did not have a

technical committee focusing on this emerging, but important area. There are in fact no other

existing technical committees that are dedicated or closely relevant to the interactive and wearable

computing and devices. So, there is indeed no overlap with other existing TCs. Thus, the

establishment of this new TC will provide a new platform for the researchers and industry sectors

in interactive and wearable computing and devices to get together, collaborate and exchange their

research ideas, results and applications, advancing the research and prompting the application,

and in the meantime, attracting more researchers in the relevant fields to join the TC and SMC

society.

Our vision is to foster the international collaboration, advancing the state-of-the-art and prompting

the research, development, and innovative applications of interactive and wearable computing and

devices. The mission is to bring together researchers and designers and provide a venue for the

TC members and the communities-at-large in the areas of interactive and wearable computing and

devices to exchange ideas and results, to identify new research fields and technology trends, and

to explore opportunities for research collaboration and/or partnerships.

The TC currently includes more than 80 members from 20 different countries. The first meeting of

the new TC will be held during IEEE SMC 2015 in Hong Kong in October. In this meeting, we will

discuss about several initiatives to promote the TC. First of all, we intend to launch the foundation

of an annual international conference on "Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices

(IWCD)", which will be the main TC conference where all the TC members and interested people

can meet and present their work. Moreover, the TC will foster the organization of special issues in

top-level journals, special sessions in IEEE conference (specifically IEEE SMC), industry

workshops to facilitate academic and industry knowledge transfer, and the participation to

standardization bodies related to IWCD.

The web page of the TC is at: http://www.ieeesmc.org/technical-activities/human-machine-

systems/interactive-and-wearable-computing-and-devices

Dr. Peter X. Liu (SMC Senior Member) received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees

from Northern (Beijing) Jiaotong University, China in 1992 and 1995, respectively,

and Ph.D. degree from the University of Alberta, Canada in 2002. He has been

with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University

since July 2002 and he is currently a Full Professor. He holds the Canada

Research Chair in Interactive Network Computing and Teleoperation. Dr. Liu has

published more than 250 research articles. He has served as an Associate

Editor for several journals including IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on

Cybernetics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on

Automation Science and Engineering and some others. He received a 2007

Carleton Research Achievement Award, a 2006 Province of Ontario Early

Researcher Award, a 2006 Carty Research Fellowship, the Best Conference

Paper Award of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and

Automation, and a 2003 Province of Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award. He

has served in the Organization Committees of numerous conferences including

being the General Chair of the 2011, 2010, 2008 IEEE International Workshop on

Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications, and the General Chair

of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation. Dr. Liu

is a licensed member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario (P.Eng), a senior

member of IEEE, and a fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC).

Dr. Giancarlo Fortino (SMC Senior Member) received the Laurea (B.S and M.S)

and Ph.D in computer engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1995

and 2000, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer

Engineering (since 2006) with the Department of Informatics, Modeling,

Electronics and Systems (DIMES), University of Calabria. He holds the Italian

scientific national habilitation for Full Professor. After he was nominated high-end

foreign expert in China, since 2015 Dr. Fortino is Adjunct Professor of Computer

Engineering at the Wuhan University of Technology (China). He is also Adjunct

Senior Research Fellow at Italian National Research Council. He authored more

than 250 publications in journals, conferences, and books. He has been awarded

with the 2014 Andrew P. Sage Best IEEE SMC Transactions. His research

interests include distributed computing, wireless sensor networks, body area

networks and wearable computing, agent-based computing, Internet of Things,

cloud computing, multimedia networks and computing. He is founding editor of

the Springer Book Series on “Internet of Things: Technology, Communications

and Computing” and currently serves as associate editor in the editorial board of

IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing, IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems,

Information Fusion, Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of

Network and Computer Applications. He guest edited more than 20 special

issues in int’l journals, chaired more than 40 int’l conference/workshops, and was

member of more than 300 IPCs of int’l conferences/workshops. He is co-

authoring the book “Wearable Systems and Body Sensor Networks: From

Modeling to Implementation” by Wiley. He is co-founder and CEO of Sensyscal

S.r.l., a spin-off of University of Calabria, engaged in advanced applied research

and development of sensor-based systems. Dr. Fortino is a licensed member of

the Professional Engineers of Cosenza (P.Eng) and a senior member of IEEE.

Dr. Mehmet Rasit Yuce (SMC Senior Member) received the M.S. degree in

Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville,

Florida in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering

from North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC in December 2004. He

was a post-doctoral researcher in the Electrical Engineering Department at the

University of California at Santa Cruz in 2005. He was a Senior Lecturer in the

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle,

New South Wales, Australia until Jul 2011. In July 2011, he joined the

Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash

University, Australia. His research interests include wireless implantable

telemetry, wearable sensor design, wireless body area network (WBAN), bio-

sensors, integrated circuit technology dealing with digital, analog and radio

frequency circuit designs for wireless, biomedical, and RF applications. Dr. Yuce

has published more than 100 technical articles in the above areas and received a

NASA group achievement award in 2007 for developing an SOI transceiver. He

received a best journal paper award in 2014 from the IEEE Microwave Theory and

Techniques Society (MTTS). He received a research excellence award in the

Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Newcastle in 2010.

He received the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship award

in 2013. He is an author of the books: Wireless Body Area Networks published in

2011 and Ultra-Wideband and 60 GHz Communications for Biomedical

Applications published in 2013. He is a senior member of IEEE. He is an

associate editor for IEEE Sensors Journal and a guest editor for IEEE Journal of

Biomedical and Health Informatics in 2014. He has been a technical committee

member of many IEEE conferences in the areas of medical sensors, wireless

wearable sensors and body area networks.

Dr. Dongyi Chen received his Ph.D. degree in from Chongqing University, China

in 1997. Since then, he has been with the University of Electronic Science and

Technology of China. He is now a Full Professor of Automation Engineering and

the Director of the Research Center for Mobile Computing. Dr. Chen was a

postdoctoral research fellow with University of Toronto, Canada from 1998 to

1999. From 2002 to 2005, he was a visiting professor at the GVU Center of

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Dr. Chen is a pioneering researcher in

wearable computing in China. He has led a number of very important national

research projects and initiatives in China, and his research results have been

widely covered by important Chinese media, such CCTV, People’s Daily, and

Science and Technology Daily. He was a Co-Chair of the first and second

editions of the China-Germany Wearable Computing Symposium. He was also

the General Chair of China Wearable Computing Conference (WEARABLE 2013

and 2014) and the Conference Chair of the 2015 China Wearable Computing

Conference/ 2015 Symposium on Wearables and Challenges in Medicine. Dr.

Chen’s research interests include mobile computing, wearable computing,

human-man interface, augmented virtual reality, wireless sensor networks, and

body sensor networks.

Peter X. Liu, Ph.D., P.Eng., FEIC
Professor and Canada Research Chair
Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6 CANADA
Phone: +1(613) 520-2600 ext. 1774
Fax: +1(613) 520-5727
Email: [email protected]

Giancarlo Fortino, Ph.D. P.Eng.
Professor of Computer Engineering
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Modellistica, Elettronica e Sistemistica (DIMES) Università della Calabria.
Via P. Bucci, cubo 41C, Rende (CS), ITALY
Phone:+39.0984.494063
Fax: +39.0984.494713
email: [email protected]

Mehmet Rasit Yuce, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University
Melbourne, 14 Alliance Lane, Clayton Campus, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 3 9905 3932
Fax: +61 3 9905 3454
Email: [email protected]

Dongyi Chen, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Research Center for Mobile Computing
School of Automation Engineering
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Phone: +86-28-61830313
Fax: +86-28-61830313
Email: [email protected]