Overview

With the rapid progression of urbanization and the increasing emphasis on enhancing human well-being, there is a growing demand for intelligent systems that prioritize human-centric design and functionality. Meeting this demand involves addressing key challenges, such as developing advanced sensing technologies to monitor various aspects of human life, including health indicators, behavioral patterns, and people's interactions with the built environment. Moreover, it requires developing advanced AI models for human-in-the-loop applications, such as predictive tools for personalized healthcare, adaptive systems for long-term monitoring, and optimization algorithms to enhance daily activities and decision-making processes. Additionally, integrating user requirements into system architectures—encompassing intuitive interfaces, wearable and ambient devices, and context-aware functionalities—remains a critical priority. These advancements are pivotal for a wide range of human-centered applications, including healthcare systems that enable early diagnostics and proactive interventions, smart living environments that streamline and optimize daily routines, personalized learning platforms tailored to individual preferences, and advanced technologies that enhance accessibility and mobility across diverse populations in our community.

Keynotes

Dr. Wei Gao, Professor at Caltech

Dr. Wei Gao

Professor of Medical Engineering

Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar

Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator

California Institute of Technology

www.gao.caltech.edu

Skin-Interfaced Wearable Biosensors

The growing interest in personalized medicine is set to transform conventional healthcare, offering new avenues for predictive analytics and tailored treatment approaches. In this talk, I will present our advancements in developing wearable biosensors for non-invasive molecular analysis. These wearables autonomously access and sample body fluids, such as sweat, wound exudate, and exhaled breath condensate, continuously monitoring a wide array of analytes—including metabolites, nutrients, hormones, proteins, and drugs—during various daily activities.

To enable large-scale, cost-effective manufacturing of these high-performance nanomaterial-based sensors, we leverage techniques such as laser engraving, inkjet printing, and 3D printing. Our wearable systems' clinical applications are evaluated through human trials in areas like human performance monitoring, stress response and mental health assessment, precision nutrition, chronic disease management, and drug personalization.

Furthermore, I will explore our efforts in energy harvesting from both the human body and the environment, paving the way for battery-free, wireless biosensing devices. This integration of wearable technologies has the potential to revolutionize personalized healthcare, spanning diagnostics, real-time monitoring, and therapeutic innovations.

Biography

Wei Gao is a Professor of Medical Engineering, Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar, and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator at the California Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2014, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley from 2014 to 2017.

He is serving as an Associate Editor for Science Advances, npj Flexible Electronics, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, and Sensors & Diagnostics. His achievements have garnered a number of awards and honors, such as NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, IAMBE Early Career Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, Pittcon Achievement Award, IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2023 in Engineering and Technology, Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Finalist, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, ACS DIC Young Investigator Award, and Materials Today Rising Star Award.

He is also recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Scientist, a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science), a member of the Global Young Academy, and an elected AIMBE Fellow. His research interests encompass a wide range of areas including wearable sensors, bioelectronics, flexible electronics, and micro/nanorobotics.

Program

Oral Presentations: 8min presentation + 2min Q&A

9:00 - 9:10

Opening + Welcome

9:10 - 10:00

Keynote

Dr. Wei Gao, Caltech

10:00 - 10:30

Technical Session 1 (3 full papers, oral)

Wireless and RF-based Vital Sign and Physiological Monitoring

  • MobiVital: Self-supervised Quality Estimation for UWB-based Contactless Respiration Monitoring
    Ziqi Wang (Qualcomm), Derek Hua (University of California, Los Angeles), Wenjun Jiang (Samsung Research America), Tianwei Xing (Meta), Xun Chen (Independent Researcher), Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles & Amazon AWS AI Labs)
  • Through-dressing Wound Monitoring Based on the mmWave Sensor
    Xiaoyu Zhang (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Zhengxiong Li (University of Colorado Denver), Yanda Cheng (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Chenhan Xu (North Carolina State University), Chuqin Huang (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Emma Zhang (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Ye Zhan (Linde Inc), Wei Bo (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Jun Xia (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Wenyao Xu (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
  • Fine-grained Heartbeat Waveform Monitoring with RFID: A Latent Diffusion Model
    Yiting Wang (Florida International University), Tianya Zhao (Florida International University), Xuyu Wang (Florida International University)
10:30 - 11:00

BREAK

11:00 - 12:00

Technical Session 2 (6 full papers, oral)

Human Activity Recognition and Gait Assessment

  • Activity Recognition using RF and IMU Sensor Data Fusion
    Maansa Krovvidi (Carnegie Mellon University), Zhiyi Shi (Carnegie Mellon University), Sushanta Rakshit (Bosch Research), Anagha Ravi Shankara (Carnegie Mellon University), Vivek Jain (Bosch Research), Quinn Jacobson (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Adaptive Hybrid Autoencoder Clustering for Human Activity Recognition
    Weisi Yang (Northwestern University), Yueyuan Sui (Northwestern University), Yiting Zhang (Northwestern University), Stephen Xia (Northwestern University)
  • Human-Centered Gait Balance Estimation Using Footstep-Induced Floor Vibrations
    Jiaxin Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Yiwen Dong (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Wireless Sensing of Gait for Neurodegenerative Disease Assessment: A Scoping Review
    Patrick Wu (Kennesaw State University), Yiwen Dong (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Chenhan Xu (North Carolina State University), Mark Geil (Kennesaw State University), Modupe Akintomide (Kennesaw State University), Xinyue Zhang (Kennesaw State University), Zongxing Xie (Kennesaw State University)
  • Mitigating Sensor Data Bias from User Operational Variability via Causal Intervention
    Zhizhang Hu (University of California, Merced), Shubham Rohal (University of California, Merced), Shijia Pan (University of California Merced)
  • Touchless Restroom Monitoring: A Privacy-Preserving System for Patient Care
    Jingye Xu (the University of Texas at San Antonio), Yuntong Zhang (Prairie View A&M University), Wei Wang (the University of Texas at San Antonio), Mimi Xie (the University of Texas at San Antonio), Dakai Zhu (the University of Texas at San Antonio)
12:00 - 12:30

Panel

Topic: TBD

Panel Speakers: TBD

12:30 - 2:00

LUNCH BREAK

2:00 - 2:50

Keynote

Dr. Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang, Columbia University

2:50 - 3:30

Technical Session 3 (6 experience papers + 1 short paper, posters)

Poster Session for Human-Centered Intelligent Systems for Health, Safety, and Interactive Living

  • A Human-Centered Perspective on Optimizing Ambient Assisted Living Sensing Systems for Aging in Place
    Andrea Green (Stanford University), Andrea Cuadra (Olin College of Engineering), Sarah L. Billington (Stanford University), Yiwen Dong (Stanford University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Towards Secure User Interaction in WebXR
    Chandrika Mukherjee (Purdue University), Arjun Arunasalam (Purdue University), Habiba Farrukh (University of California, Irvine), Reham Mohamed Aburas (American University of Sharjah), Z. Berkay Celik (Purdue University)
  • Towards a Lightweight Platform for Human-Robot Interaction in Federated Edge and IoT Environments
    Simon Zhang (California State University Long Beach), Zhengxiong Li (University of Colorado Denver), Xin Qin (California State University Long Beach), Hailu Xu (California State University Long Beach)
  • Vision: Preventing Tech-related Physiological Health Issues using Commodity Wearables
    Bhawana Chhaglani (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Sarmistha Sarna Gomasta (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Bhawana Chhaglani (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • mmHvital: A Study on Head-Mounted mmWave Radar for Vital Sign Monitoring
    Yang Liu (Nokia Bell Labs), Fahim Kawsar (Nokia Bell Labs), Alessandro Montanari (Nokia Bell Labs)
  • ExplainGen: a Human-Centered LLM Assistant for Combating Misinformation
    Zhicheng Yang (Southern Illinois University), Xinle Jia (Southern Illinois University), Xiaopeng Jiang (Southern Illinois University)
  • Towards Human-Centric Smart Homes: Modeling Sensor-Actuator Interactions with Deep Learning
    Md Abdur Rahman Fahad (Missouri State University), Razib Iqbal (Missouri State University)
3:30 - 4:00

BREAK

4:00 - 5:00

Technical Session 4 (6 full papers, oral)

Novel Techniques in Simulation, Data Processing, Modeling, and Visualization for Human Sensing

  • A Semi-automated Mesh Editing Pipeline for HRTF Simulation
    Bodee Quansah (McMaster University), Navid H. Zandi (McMaster University), Rong Zheng (McMaster University)
  • MoCoMR: A Collaborative MR Simulator with Individual Behavior Modeling
    Diana Romero (University of California, Irvine), Fatima Anwar (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Salma Elmalaki (University of California Irvine USA)
  • DUal-NET: A Transformer-Based U-Net Model for Denoising Bone Conduction Speech
    Yueyuan Sui (Northwestern University), Minghui Zhao (Columbia University), Junxi Xia (Northwestern University), Yiting Zhang (Northwestern University), Xiaofan Jiang (Columbia University), Stephen Xia (Northwestern University)
  • Quantitative Assessment of mmWave Point Cloud for Target Detection
    Boyu Jiang (McMaster University), Rong Zheng (McMaster University)
  • PluralLLM: Pluralistic Alignment in LLMs via Federated Learning
    Mahmoud Srewa (University of California Irvine USA), Tianyu Zhao (University of California Irvine USA), Salma Elmalaki (University of California Irvine USA)
  • Good, but Not That Good: An Honestly-Noisy Visualization of Low-Fidelity Data Streams
    Alvin Tan (University of California, Berkeley), Prabal Dutta (University of California, Berkeley)
5:00 - 5:30

Technical Session 5 (3 full papers, oral)

Smart Sensing Systems for Physical Spaces

  • DomAIn: Towards Programless Smart Homes
    Yueyuan Sui (Northwestern University), Yiting Zhang (Northwestern University), Yanchen Liu (Columbia University), Minghui Zhao (Columbia University), Kaiyuan Hou (Columbia University), Jingping Nie (Columbia University), Xiaofan Jiang (Columbia University), Stephen Xia (Northwestern University)
  • Urban Sensing for Human-Centered Systems: A Modular Edge Framework for Real-Time Interaction
    Navid Salami Pargoo (Rutgers University), Mahshid Ghasemi (Columbia University), Shuren Xia (Rutgers University), Mehmet Kerem Turkcan (Columbia University), Taqiya Ehsan (Rutgers University), Chengbo Zang (Columbia University), Yuan Sun (Rutgers University), Javad Ghaderi (Columbia University), Gil Zussman (Columbia University), Zoran Kostic (Columbia University), Jorge Ortiz (Rutgers University)
  • Human-Centric Wearable Platform for Work Safety Monitoring: Navigating Between Protection and Privacy
    Annabel Jünke (TU Braunschweig), Susanne Robra-Bissantz (TU Braunschweig), Jan Schlichter (TU Braunschweig), Lars Wolf (TU Braunschweig), Leonard Zurek (TU Braunschweig)
5:30 - 5:40

Closing + Best Paper Award

Call for Papers

This workshop aims to foster collaboration among researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and service sectors, providing a platform to share ideas and experiences in developing human-centered systems.

Topics of Interest

We welcome contributions that emphasize human-centric sensing technologies, novel models for human-centered systems, and applications in areas including, but not limited to:

Human-Centered Sensing and Data Acquisition

  • Novel sensing approaches for health, activity, gesture, behavior monitoring of individuals or groups (e.g., camera, VR/AR, wearables, mobile platforms, vibration, acoustics, IMU, mmWave/WiFi, etc.)
  • Data management transmission methodologies (e.g., communication and networking)

Human-Centered Static and AI Driven Models

  • Statistical models for representing and analyzing human behavior, preferences, and environmental interactions include methods (e.g., regression analysis, Bayesian networks, clustering algorithms, matrix factorization techniques, etc.) that capture relationships within human-centered data.
  • Advanced AI models and techniques involving data collected from humans (e.g., large language models, convolutional neural networks, transformers, graph neural networks, time series models, statistical learning models, etc.).
  • System models or frameworks for human-in-the-loop applications.
  • Data interpretation and metric prediction in human-centered cyber-physical systems.

Human-Centered System Design and Implementation

  • Integration of human needs and preferences in the design of cyber-physical systems (e.g., privacy considerations, UI/UX design, integration of LLM agents, etc.)
  • Prototyping and iterative system design to refine and validate human-centered solutions.

Applications and Real-World Studies

  • Real-world deployment experience with human participants
  • Evaluation methodologies and insights of cyber-physical systems with human in the loop

Submission

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

We will solicit papers in three 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.

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.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy. https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

HumanSys'25 follows a single-blind review process.

Please submit your papers via this link - https://humansys25.hotcrp.com/

Camera-ready Manuscript Details

Please note that the page limit is 6 pages (including references) in the ACM format ("sigconf") with a 9pt font.

Important Dates

  • Paper Registration Deadline: 3 Mar, 2025 → 10 Mar, 2025, 23:59 AOE
  • Submission Deadline: 10 Mar, 2025, 23:59 AOE
  • Notification of Acceptance: 24 Mar, 2025
  • Camera Ready: 31 Mar, 2025
  • Workshop Date: 6 May, 2025

Organization

General Chairs

  • Yiwen Dong (yiwen@illinois.edu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Sijie Ji (sijieji@caltech.edu, California Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Yang Liu (yang.16.liu@nokia-bell-labs.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)

Program Chairs

  • Jingping Nie (jn2551@columbia.edu, Columbia University, USA)
  • Huining Li (hli83@ncsu.edu, North Carolina State University, USA)

Publicity Chair

  • Stephen Xia (stephen.xia@northwestern.edu, Northwestern University, USA)

Social Media Chairs

  • Ziyi Xuan (zix222@lehigh.edu, Lehigh University, USA)
  • Yuang Fan (yf2676@columbia.edu, Columbia University, USA)

Web Chair

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

Steering Committee Members

  • Alessandro Montanari (Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Fred Xiaofan Jiang (Columbia University, USA)
  • Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Pei Zhang (University of Michigan, USA)

Technical Program Committee

  • Dong Li (dli@umbc.edu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
  • Yu Yang (yuyang@lehigh.edu, Lehigh University, USA)
  • Ashok Samraj Thangarajan (ashok.thangarajan@nokia-bell-labs.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Ying Chen (ychen62@kennesaw.edu, Kennesaw State University, USA)
  • Yang Liu (yl868@cam.ac.uk, University of Cambridge, UK)
  • Hanqing Guo (guohanqi@hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA)
  • Zhenyu Yan (zyyan@ie.cuhk.edu.hk, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
  • VP Nguyen (vp.nguyen@cs.umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
  • Qiang Yang (qy258@cam.ac.uk, University of Cambridge, UK)
  • Marios Constantinides (marios.constantinides@cyens.org.cy, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus)
  • Zongxing Xie (zxie1@kennesaw.edu, Kennesaw State University)
  • Andrea Ferlini (andrea.ferlini@nokia-bell-labs.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Ting Dang (ting.dang@unimelb.edu.au, The University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Khaldoon Al-Naimi (khaldoon.al-naimi@nokia-bell-labs.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Dong Ma (dongma@smu.edu.sg, Singapore Management University, Singapore)
  • Ananta Narayanan Balaji (ananta.balaji@nokia.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Longfei Shangguan (longfei@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh, USA)
  • SiYoung Jang (siyoung.jang@nokia-bell-labs.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Tao Chen (tac194@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh, USA)
  • Soumyajit Chatterjee (soumyajit.chatterjee@nokia-bell-labs.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Shirui Cao (shiruicao@cs.umass.edu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
  • Sangwon Choi (sangwon.choi@nokia-bell-labs.com, Nokia Bell Labs, UK)
  • Chenhang Li (chenhang.li@duke.edu, Duke University, USA)
  • Jingwei Sun (jingwei.sun@duke.edu, Duke University, USA)
  • Amod Agrawal (amoagraw@amazon.com, Amazon, USA)

Venue

HumanSys 2025 will be held as a joint workshop in conjunction with CPS-IoT Week 2025 in Irvine, California, from May 6 to 9, 2025.

For further information on accommodation, VISA, and travel arrangements, please find more details on the CPS-IoT Week website at https://cps-iot-week2025.ics.uci.edu/venue.php#main

Registration

HumanSys 2025 will be held as a joint workshop in conjunction with CPS-IoT Week 2025 in Irvine, California.

Please visit https://cps-iot-week2025.ics.uci.edu/calls.php#main for more information.