WSNHC 2007
The 1st International Workshop on

Wireless Sensor Networks for Health Care

http://wsnhc.openwsn.com/

Held in conjunction with
INSS07
The 4th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems
http://www.inss-conf.org/

June 6, 2007
Braunschweig, Germany
Program Venue Committee Call for Papers

The first workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks for HealthCare takes place in Braunschweig, Germany in conjunction with INNS conference. The focus of the workshop is novel enabling technologies, wireless sensor devices, and wireless sensor systems that will aid health care in new ways.

WSNHC 2007 Program

Session I: 10:00 - 12:00
Body Networks and Wearable Sensors

(Invited) "Smart Attire - Bringing Technology to Your Wardrobe"
Raghu Kiran Ghanti
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Scalability Issues in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks for Remote Monitoring of Elderly People"
Sana Saadaoui, Lars Wolf
Institut für Betriebssysteme und Rechnerverbund, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Mühlenpfordtstrasse 23, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany

"Wireless Body Sensor Enhanced Tracking for Extended In-Home Care"
Ani Nahapetian, Sabah Chaudhry, Foad Dabiri, Tammara Massey, Hyduke Noshadi, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Computer Science Department, UCLA

"Recording Housekeeping Activities with Situated Tags and Wrist-Worn Sensors: Experiment Setup and Issues Encountered"
Maja Stikic and Kristof Van Laerhoven
Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany; Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Session II: 13:00 - 15:00
Wireless Sensor Systems

(Invited) "AlarmNet: Assisted-Living And Residential Monitoring Network - a wireless sensor network for smart healthcare"
Anthony Wood
University of Virginia

"Supporting Diabetes Treatment through Wearable Sensor Integration"
Friedel van Megen, Robert Sugar, Louis Latour, Matthias Neugebauer, Alain Gefflaut
European Microsoft Innovation Center, Aachen, Germany

"FluLog: An Automated Contact Tracing Tool For Mitigating Pandemic Spread"
Naved Tanveer Aziz, Fahad Khowaja, Anirudh Natarajan, Mehul Motani and Vikram Srinivasan
Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore

WSNHC 2007 Committee

Workshop chair:

  • Leo Selavo, University of Virginia, USA

Workshop technical program committee:

  • Henry Kautz (University of Rochester, USA)
  • Hiroshi Tanaka (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
  • Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Konrad Lorincz (Harvard University, USA)
  • Nuria Oliver (Microsoft Research, USA)
  • Oliver Amft (ETHZ, Switzerland)
  • Pai Chou (University of California, Irvine, USA)
  • Paul Lukowicz (Universitat Passau, Germany)
  • Majid Sarrafzadeh (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)