UbiComp / ISWC 2023
Award Winners

Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award

Finalists: Lakmal Meegahapola (EPFL and Idiap Research Institute), Rishiraj Adhikary (IIT), Zhongyi Zhou (University of Tokyo), Manasa Kalanadhabhatta (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Winner: Manasa Kalanadhabhatta (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

IMWUT Distinguished Paper Awards

IMWUT DPA #1

Aditya Ponnada, Jixin Li, Shirlene Wang, Wei-Lin Wang, Bridgette Do, Genevieve F. Dunton, and Stephen S. Intille. 2022. Contextual Biases in Microinteraction Ecological Momentary Assessment (μEMA) Non-response. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 1, Article 26 (March 2022), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517259

IMWUT DPA #2

Kunal Gupta, Sam W. T. Chan, Yun Suen Pai, Nicholas Strachan, John Su, Alexander Sumich, Suranga Nanayakkara, and Mark Billinghurst. 2022. Total VREcall: Using Biosignals to Recognize Emotional Autobiographical Memory in Virtual Reality. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 2, Article 55 (June 2022), 21 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3534615

IMWUT DPA #3

Jingwen Zhang, Dingwen Li, Ruixuan Dai, Heidy Cos, Gregory A. Williams, Lacey Raper, Chet W. Hammill, and Chenyang Lu. 2022. Predicting Post-Operative Complications with Wearables: A Case Study with Patients Undergoing Pancreatic Surgery. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 2, Article 87 (June 2022), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3534578

IMWUT DPA #4

James Devine, Michal Moskal, Peli de Halleux, Thomas Ball, Steve Hodges, Gabriele D’Amone, David Gakure, Joe Finney, Lorraine Underwood, Kobi Hartley, Paul Kos, and Matt Oppenheim. 2022. Plug-and-play Physical Computing with Jacdac. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 3, Article 110 (September 2022), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550317

IMWUT DPA #5

Haoran Wan, Lei Wang, Ting Zhao, Ke Sun, Shuyu Shi, Haipeng Dai, Guihai Chen, Haodong Liu, and Wei Wang. 2022. VECTOR: Velocity Based Temperature-field Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Devices. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 3, Article 144 (September 2022), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550336

IMWUT DPA #6

Ananta Narayanan Balaji, Clayton Kimber, David Li, Shengzhi Wu, Ruofei Du, and David Kim. 2023. RetroSphere: Self-Contained Passive 3D Controller Tracking for Augmented Reality. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 157 (December 2022), 36 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569479

IMWUT DPA #7

Lakmal Meegahapola, William Droz, Peter Kun, Amalia de Götzen, Chaitanya Nutakki, Shyam Diwakar, Salvador Ruiz Correa, Donglei Song, Hao Xu, Miriam Bidoglia, George Gaskell, Altangerel Chagnaa, Amarsanaa Ganbold, Tsolmon Zundui, Carlo Caprini, Daniele Miorandi, Alethia Hume, Jose Luis Zarza, Luca Cernuzzi, Ivano Bison, Marcelo Rodas Britez, Matteo Busso, Ronald Chenu-Abente, Can Günel, Fausto Giunchiglia, Laura Schelenz, and Daniel Gatica-Perez. 2023. Generalization and Personalization of Mobile Sensing-Based Mood Inference Models: An Analysis of College Students in Eight Countries. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 176 (December 2022), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569483

IMWUT DPA #8

Xuhai Xu, Xin Liu, Han Zhang, Weichen Wang, Subigya Nepal, Yasaman Sefidgar, Woosuk Seo, Kevin S. Kuehn, Jeremy F. Huckins, Margaret E. Morris, Paula S. Nurius, Eve A. Riskin, Shwetak Patel, Tim Althoff, Andrew Campbell, Anind K. Dey, and Jennifer Mankoff. 2023. GLOBEM: Cross-Dataset Generalization of Longitudinal Human Behavior Modeling. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 190 (December 2022), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569485

UbiComp 10-year Impact Award

Instant inkjet circuits: lab-based inkjet printing to support rapid prototyping of UbiComp devices,
By Yoshihiro Kawahara, Steve Hodges, Benjamin S. Cook, Cheng Zhang, and Gregory D. Abowd

MACH: My Automated Conversation coach  By Mohammed (Ehsan) Hoque, Matthieu Courgeon, Jean-Claude Martin, Bilge Mutlu, and Rosalind W. Picard

ISWC 20- and 10-year Impact Award

10 year award: FIDO – facilitating interactions for dogs with occupations: wearable dog-activated interfaces; Melody Moore Jackson, Clint Zeagler, Giancarlo Valentin, Alex Martin, Vincent Martin, Adil Delawalla, Wendy Blount, Sarah Eiring, Ryan Hollis, Yash Kshirsagar, Thad Starner

20 year award: Using multiple sensors for mobile sign language recognition; Helene Brashear, Thad Starner, Paul Lukowicz, and Holger Junker

ISWC Best Paper Award

Finalists:

1. HPSpeech: Silent Speech Interface for Commodity Headphones

2. TouchLog: Micro Finger Gesture Recognition Using Photo-Reflective Sensors

3. Selecting the Motion Ground Truth for Loose-fitting Wearables: Benchmarking Optical MoCap Methods

4. Wireless Sensor Collar for Automatic Recognition of Canine Agility Activities

5. Generating Virtual On-body Accelerometer Data from Virtual Textual Descriptions for Human Activity Recognition

6. Going Blank Comfortably: Positioning Monocular Head-Worn Displays When They are Inactive

Honourable Mention: 

1. HPSpeech: Silent Speech Interface for Commodity Headphones; Ruidong Zhang, Hao Chen, Devansh Agarwal, Richard Jin, Ke Li, François Guimbretière, and Cheng Zhang

2. Wireless Sensor Collar for Automatic Recognition of Canine Agility Activities; Charles Ramey, Arianna Mastali, Adithya Muralikrishna, Thad Starner, and Melody Moore Jackson

3. Generating Virtual On-body Accelerometer Data from Virtual Textual Descriptions for Human Activity Recognition; Zikang Leng, Hyeokhyen Kwon, Thomas Ploetz

Winner:  Selecting the Motion Ground Truth for Loose-fitting Wearables: Benchmarking Optical MoCap Methods, Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, Bo Zhou, Sungho Suh, and Paul Lukowicz

ISWC DX Award

Aesthetics Category: Social Prosthesis: Social Interaction Through 3D Dynamic Makeup. Morgan Chen, Jingwen Zhu, Cindy Kao.
Functional Category: Plug-and-Play Wearables: A Repositionable E-Textile Garment System to Support Custom Fit for Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Applications. Heidi Woelfle; Olaitan Adeleke; Niharikha Subash; Alireza Golgouneh; Brad Holschuh; Lucy E. Dunne
Fiber Arts Category: Kirigami Antennas. Zoe Kaputa, Afroditi Psarra

Best Poster Award

Towards Detecting Tonic Information Processing Activities with Physiological Data. Kaixin Ji, Damiano Spina, Danula Hettiachchi, Falk Scholer, Flora D. Salim

People’s Choice Award for Posters

Physiological Indices to Predict Driver Situation Awareness in VR. Gwangbin Kim, Jieun Lee, Dohyeon Yeo, Eunsol An, SeungJun Kim

Best Demo Award

Anticipatory Hand Glove: Understanding Human Actions for Enhanced Interaction. Jonas Schulz, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Giang T. Nguyen, Vu Nguyen, Patrick Seeling

People’s Choice Award for Demos

Demonstrating ProxiFit: Proximal Magnetic Sensing using a Single Commodity Mobile toward Holistic Weight Exercise Monitoring. Jiha Kim, Younho Nam, Jungeun Lee, Young-Joo Suh, Inseok Hwang

Best ASSET Poster Award

Toward Using Digital Phenotypes in Mobile Tactile Stimulation for Children with ASD. Luis Zamudio, Ivonne Monarca, Jesus Favela, Monica Tentori

People’s Choice Award for ASSET Posters

Social Battery: Toward the Design of a Wearable Device for Social Interactions. Ana Gabriela Gámez Elizalde, Luís Castro

Best Video Teaser Award

N-euro Predictor: A Neural Network Approach for Smoothing and Predicting Motion Trajectory. Qijia Shao, Jian Wang, Bing Zhou, Vu An Tran, Gurunandan Krishna, Shree Nayar.

Student Challenge Award

ZzzGPT: An Interactive GPT Approach to Enhance Sleep Quality

Yonchanok Khaokaew, Thuc Hanh Nguyen, Kaixin Ji, Hiruni Kegalle, and Marwah Alaofi

UbiComp / ISWC

Past Conferences

The ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) is the result of a merger of the two most renowned conferences in the field: Pervasive and UbiComp. While it retains the name of the latter in recognition of the visionary work of Mark Weiser, its long name reflects the dual history of the new event.

The ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC) discusses novel results in all aspects of wearable computing, and has been colocated with UbiComp and Pervasive since 2013.

A complete list of UbiComp, Pervasive, and ISWC past conferences is provided below.