Call for Papers

The proliferation of smart devices, mobile applications, and IoT systems in our daily lives has created significant opportunities for a more efficient, productive, healthy, and sustainable society centered on short and long-term human needs. To translate those opportunities into reality, we have seen increasing research attention from a number of disciplines. As human activity, behavior, and user experience become important factors in smart services and mobile applications, the research will bring a new focus on human-centered sensing, networking, and intelligent systems. We also focus on the development and practical application of novel sensing technologies within human-centric multi-device systems, incorporating both mobile and fixed infrastructure. Our attention includes mobile devices, including smartphones and wearable technology such as smartwatches, earbuds, and rings, as well as a combination of stationary infrastructure like cameras, WiFi, RFID readers, lighting systems, and base stations. The workshop explores the challenges and opportunities in a variety of sensing techniques ranging from sensing using wireless signals to sensor-based technologies (temperature sensors, accelerometers, PPG, EEG, pH sensors) or a combination thereof, discussing their roles in applications such as health monitoring, human behaviour analytics, precise localization, and UI/UX for multi-device systems.

The HumanSys workshop is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners in related fields from academia, industry, and service providers, to share ideas and experiences related to human-centered technologies and applications. Both visionary and working-in-progress papers are encouraged. To that end, papers are solicited from all related areas involving human-centered sensing, networking, and intelligent systems, including, but not limited to the following topics:

  • Health, activity, gesture, and behavior monitoring and/or data analytics
  • Human-centered AI models
  • Hardware/software for human-centered applications, e.g., computer vision, VR/AR, wearables, mobile platforms, vibration/acoustics, radio-frequency sensing
  • Human-environment, human-sensor, human-AI interactions
  • Trustworthy AI and intelligent systems for user needs (e.g., privacy and security issues)
  • Human-centered design, e.g., user interface for mobile and embedded systems
  • Urban mobility and transportation systems
  • Location-based services and systems, e.g. localization, navigation, and tracking
  • Predictive control in human-intense mobile systems
  • Performance evaluation and deployment experience of human-centered systems
  • Communications and networking among multiple devices and sensors for human-centric applications
  • Data management and processing in multi-device sensing systems
  • Coordination and collaboration in multi-device systems
  • Embedded AI and tiny machine learning solutions in multi-device sensing systems
  • AI-driven sensing and computing in multi-device sensing systems
  • Techniques and algorithms for deriving insights from existing sensors Novel UI, UX, and human-centric applications of multi-device sensing systems

Submission

Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication.

We will solicit papers in four categories:

  1. Full Papers (up to 6 pages including references) should report reasonably mature work in human-centered sensing, networking, or multi-device systems. These papers are expected to demonstrate concrete and reproducible results, even if the scale may be limited.
  2. Experience Papers (up to 4 pages including references) should present experiences with the implementation, deployment, and operation of novel sensing or networking technologies and systems for human-centered applications. Desirable papers are expected to include real data and descriptions of practical lessons learned.
  3. Short Papers (up to 2 pages including references) are encouraged to report novel and creative ideas that have yet to produce concrete research results but are at a stage where community feedback would be useful.
  4. Short Papers(up to 2 pages including references) of papers that have been presented at SenSys are welcome to obtain feedback from the dedicated human sensing community. These should be entitled “Excerpt of SENSYS PAPER TITLE"

All papers will be at most 6 single-spaced 8.5” x 11” pages with 10-pt font size in two-column format, including figures, tables, and references. All submissions must use the LaTeX (preferred) or Word styles found here. LaTeX submissions should use the acmart.cls template (sigconf option), with the 10-pt font. All of the accepted papers (regardless of category) will be included in the ACM Digital Library. All papers will be digitally available through the workshop website, and the ACM Sensys 2024 Adjunct Proceedings. We will offer a "Best Paper" award, sponsored by Nokia Bell Labs, to one of the accepted papers.

Please submit your papers via this link - https://humansys24.hotcrp.com/

Important dates

  • Paper submission due: September 4th, 2024, 23:59 AOE September 26th, 2024, 23:59 AOE (Final Extension)
  • Workshop paper notification: October 2nd, 2024, 23:59 AOE
  • Camera-ready: October 7th, 2024, 23:59 AOE
  • Workshop date: November 4th, 2024 (full day)

Organization

General Chairs

  • Yiwen Dong (ywdong@stanford.edu, Stanford University, USA)
  • Zhi Wang (zjuwangzhi@zju.edu.cn, Zhejiang University, China)
  • Alessandro Montanari (alessandro.montanari@nokia-bell-labs.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Danny Hughes (danny.hughes@kuleuven.be, KU Leuven, Belgium)

Program Chairs

  • Yang Liu (yang.16.liu@nokia.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Ashok Samraj Thangarajan (ashok.thangarajan@nokia-bell-labs.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Sara Khalifa (sara.khalifa@qut.edu.au, Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
  • Jingping Nie (jn2551@columbia.edu, Columbia University)

Publication Chair

  • Jingxiao Liu (jingxiao@mit.edu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Publicity and Social Media Chair

  • Harshvardhan Takawale (htakawal@umd.edu, University of Maryland College Park, USA)

Venue

HumanSys 2024 will be held as a joint workshop in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2024 in Hangzhou, China.

For further information on accommodation, VISA, and travel arrangements, please find more details on the SenSys websites at https://sensys.acm.org/2024/

Registration

HumanSys 2024 will be held as a joint workshop in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2024 in Hangzhou, China.

Please visit https://sensys.acm.org/2024/ for more information.