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  Tuesday, March 24 Wednesday, March 25 Thursday, March 26
8:30 ‑ 8:40 am Conference Opening Conference Announcements Conference Announcements
8:40 ‑ 9:00 am Keynote Keynote
9:00 ‑ 10:00 am Keynote
10:00 ‑ 10:20 am Coffee Break Coffee Break
10:20 ‑ 10:30 am Coffee Break
10:30 ‑ 10:50 am S4: Best Paper Candidates S7: Security
10:50 am ‑ 12:00 pm S1: Wearables Systems and Mobility
12:00 ‑ 12:10 pm Lunch Lunch
12:10 ‑ 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 ‑ 1:40 pm S5: Industry Track Session S8: Crowdsensing and Collaboration
1:40 ‑ 3:00 pm S2: Activity Recognition and Healthcare
3:00 ‑ 3:15 pm Coffee Break Coffee Break
3:15 ‑ 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 ‑ 3:45 pm S3: User Interaction and Authentication S9: Computing and Communication
3:45 ‑ 4:30 pm S6: Positioning and Middleware
4:30 ‑ 5:00 pm WiP Best Contribution Session Town Hall
5:00 ‑ 5:30 pm One-Minute Madness  
5:30 ‑ 6:30 pm Reception (Demo, WiP, and PhD Forum Posters)    
6:30 ‑ 8:00 pm Banquet  
8:00 ‑ 9:00 pm    

Tuesday, March 24

Tuesday, March 24 8:30 - 9:00

Conference Openinggo to top

Room: Mulva Auditorium
Chair: Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Tuesday, March 24 9:00 - 10:20

Keynotego to top

A.J. Brush
Room: Mulva Auditorium
Chair: Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
My Journey from Research to Product
Aj B Brush (Microsoft Research, USA)
pg. 1

Tuesday, March 24 10:20 - 10:50

Coffee Breakgo to top

Room: Mulva Foyer

Tuesday, March 24 10:50 - 12:10

S1: Wearables Systems and Mobilitygo to top

Room: Mulva Auditorium
Chair: Max Muehlhaeuser (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
Towards Energy Positive Sensing using Kinetic Energy Harvesters
Muhammad Moid Sandhu (The University of Queensland & Data61 - CSIRO, Australia); Kai Geissdoerfer (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Sara Khalifa (Data61, CSIRO, Australia); Raja Jurdak (Queensland University of Technology & CSIRO, Australia); Marius Portmann (University of Queensland, Australia); Branislav Kusy (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) ICT Centre, Australia)
pp. 2-11
SilentSign: Device-free Handwritten Signature Verification through Acoustic Sensing
Mengqi Chen, Jiawei Lin, Yongpan Zou, Rukhsana Ruby and Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen University, China)
pp. 12-21
Detecting Mobility Context over Smartphones using Typing and Smartphone Engagement Patterns
Soumyajit Chatterjee (IIT Kharagpur, India); Adrija Bhowmik (NIT, Durgapur, India); Arun Singh (IIT, Kharagpur, India); Surjya Ghosh (IIT Kharagpur, India); Bivas Mitra and Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
pp. 22-29

Tuesday, March 24 12:10 - 1:40

Lunchgo to top

Room: Etta Harbin Alumni Center

Tuesday, March 24 1:40 - 3:00

S2: Activity Recognition and Healthcarego to top

Room: Mulva Auditorium
Chair: Klaus David (University of Kassel, Germany)
W8-Scope: Fine-Grained, Practical Monitoring of Weight Stack-based Exercises
Meeralakshmi Radhakrishnan, Archan Misra and Rajesh K Balan (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
pp. 30-39
Activity Recommendation: Optimizing Life in the Long Term
Julian Ramos Rojas (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Johana Rosas (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Yilin Shen and Hongxia Jin (Samsung Research America, USA); Anind Dey (University of Washington, USA)
pp. 40-49
On Predicting Relapse in Schizophrenia using Mobile Sensing in a Randomized Control Trial
Rui Wang, Weichen Wang, Mikio Obuchi and Emily Scherer (Dartmouth College, USA); Rachel Brian and Dror Ben-Zeev (University of Washington, USA); Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell University, USA); John Kane, Martar Hauser and Megan Walsh (Northwell Health, USA); Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College, USA)
pp. 50-57

Tuesday, March 24 3:00 - 3:30

Coffee Breakgo to top

Room: Mulva Foyer

Tuesday, March 24 3:30 - 4:30

S3: User Interaction and Authenticationgo to top

Room: Mulva Auditorium
Chair: Ali Hurson (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
One-thumb Text Acquisition on Force-assisted Miniature Interfaces for Mobile Headsets
Lik-Hang Lee (The University of Oulu, Finland); Yiming Zhu (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Yui-Pan Yau and Tristan Braud (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Xiang Su (University of Helsinki & University of Oulu, Finland); Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & University of Helsinki, Hong Kong)
pp. 58-67
ThumbUp: Identification and Authentication by Smartwatch using Simple Hand Gestures
Xiaojing Yu, Zhijun Zhou, Mingxue Xu, Xuanke You and Xiang-Yang Li (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
pp. 68-77

Tuesday, March 24 4:30 - 5:00

WiP Best Contribution Sessiongo to top

Room: Mulva Auditorium
Chair: Xi Zheng (Macquarie University & School of Engineering, Australia)

Tuesday, March 24 5:00 - 5:30

One-Minute Madnessgo to top

Room: Mulva Auditorium

Tuesday, March 24 5:30 - 8:00

Reception (Demo, WiP, and PhD Forum Posters)go to top

Room: EER Commons

Wednesday, March 25

Wednesday, March 25 8:30 - 8:40

Conference Announcementsgo to top

Room: Mulva Auditorium
Chair: Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Wednesday, March 25 8:40 - 10:00

Keynotego to top

Digitally Mapping the Human Behaviorome
Diane Cook
Room: Mulva Auditorium
Chair: Mohan J Kumar (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Digitally mapping the human behaviorome
Diane J. Cook (Washington State University, USA)
pg. 78

Wednesday, March 25 10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Breakgo to top

Room: Mulva Foyer

Wednesday, March 25 10:30 - 12:00

S4: Best Paper Candidatesgo to top

Chair: Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg & Faculty Information Systems and Applied Computer Science, Germany)
OmniCells: Cross-Device Cellular-based Indoor Location Tracking Using Deep Neural Networks
Hamada Rizk (EJUST, Egypt); Moustafa Abbas and Moustafa Youssef (Alexandria University, Egypt)
pp. 79-88
EmgAuth: An EMG-based Smartphone Unlocking System Using Siamese Network
Boyu Fan and Xuefeng Liu (Beihang University, China); Xiang Su (University of Helsinki & University of Oulu, Finland); Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & University of Helsinki, Hong Kong); Jianwei Niu (Beihang University, China)
pp. 89-98
Helena: Real-time Contact-free Monitoring of Sleep Activities and Events around the Bed
Jose Clemente, Maria Valero and Fangyu Li (University of Georgia, USA); ChengLiang Wang (Chongqing University, China); WenZhan Song (University of Georgia, USA)
pp. 99-108

Wednesday, March 25 12:00 - 1:30

Lunchgo to top

Room: Etta Harbin Alumni Center

Wednesday, March 25 1:30 - 3:15

S5: Industry Track Sessiongo to top

Chairs: Nabil Alshurafa (Northwestern University, USA), Abhishek Mukherji (Accenture Inc. & Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
ERAIA - Enabling Intelligence Data Pipelines for IoT-based Application Systems
Aitor Hernandez, Bin Xiao and Valentin Tudor (Ericsson, Sweden)
pp. 109-117
Predicting Machine Errors based on Adaptive Sensor Data Drifts in a Real World Industrial Setup
Sebastian Soller (Almanara Research GmbH, Germany); Gerold Hölzl and Matthias Kranz (University of Passau, Germany)
pp. 118-126
Human Activity Recognition with Deep Reinforcement Learning using the Camera of a Mobile Robot
Teerawat Kumrai, Joseph Korpela and Takuya Maekawa (Osaka University, Japan); Yen Yu and Ryota Kanai (Araya Inc., Japan)
pp. 127-136
Parasitic Location Logging: Estimating Users' Location from Context of Passersby
Kota Tsubouchi, Teruhiko Teraoka and Hidehito Gomi (Yahoo Japan Corporation, Japan); Masamichi Shimosaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
pp. 137-146
ExhaleSense: Detecting High Fidelity Forced Exhalations to Estimate Lung Obstruction on Smartphones
Md Mahbubur Rahman (Samsung Research America, USA); Tousif Ahmed (Samsung Research America Inc., USA); Ebrahim Nemati, Viswam Nathan and Korosh Vatanparvar (Samsung Research America, USA); Erin Blackstock (Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA); Jilong Kuang (Samsung Research America, USA)
pp. 147-156
Rethinking Authorization Management of Web-APIs
Bojan Suzic (European Patent Office, The Netherlands); Milan Latinovic (Technical University Graz, Austria, EU, Austria)
pp. 157-166
Towards Passive Assessment of Pulmonary Function from Natural Speech Recorded Using a Mobile Phone
Keum San Chun (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Ebrahim Nemati and Md Mahbubur Rahman (Samsung Research America, USA); Erin Blackstock (Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA); Jilong Kuang (Samsung Research America, USA)
pp. 167-176

Wednesday, March 25 3:15 - 3:45

Coffee Breakgo to top

Room: Mulva Foyer

Wednesday, March 25 3:45 - 5:30

S6: Positioning and Middlewarego to top

Chair: Christian Becker (Universität Mannheim, Germany)
WiNar: RTT-based Sub-meter Indoor Localization using Commercial Devices
Omar Hashem and Moustafa Youssef (Alexandria University, Egypt); Khaled A. Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
pp. 177-186
Beamsteering for Training-free Counting of Multiple Humans Performing Distinct Activities
Sameera Palipana, Nicolas Malm and Stephan Sigg (Aalto University, Finland)
pp. 187-196
Speaker Counting Model based on Transfer Learning from SincNet Bottleneck Layer
Wei Wang (Unisversity of Twente, The Netherlands); Fatjon Seraj, Nirvana Meratnia and Paul Havinga (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
pp. 197-204
An Urban-driven Service Request Management Model
Christian Cabrera (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Andrei Palade (Distributed Systems Group, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Gary White and Siobhán Clarke (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
pp. 205-211

Wednesday, March 25 6:30 - 9:00

Banquetgo to top

Room: Stubb's Barbecue

Thursday, March 26

Thursday, March 26 8:30 - 8:40

Conference Announcementsgo to top

Room: Mulva Auditorium
Artifact Abstract: Deployment of APIs on Android Mobile Devices and Microcontrollers
Sergio Laso Mangas, Marino Linaje, José García-Alonso, Juan Manuel Murillo Rodriguez and Javier Berrocal (University of Extremadura, Spain)
pp. 212-213
Artifact Abstract: Kitchen Task Assessment Dataset for Measuring Errors due to Cognitive Impairments
Kristina Yordanova, Albert Hein and Thomas Kirste (University of Rostock, Germany)
pp. 214-215
Artifact Abstract: An Urban-driven Service Request Management Model
Christian Cabrera (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Andrei Palade (Distributed Systems Group, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Gary White and Siobhán Clarke (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
pp. 216-217
Artifact Abstract: MBP: Not just an IoT platform
Ana Cristina Franco da Silva, Jan Schneider and Pascal Hirmer (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
pp. 218-219
Artifact Abstract: CNNs for Heart Rate Estimation and Human Activity Recognition in Wrist Worn Sensing Applications
Eoin Brophy (Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University & Infant Research Centre, Ireland); Willie Muehlhausen (Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University, Ireland); Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, Ireland); Tomas Ward (Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University, Ireland)
pg. 220

Thursday, March 26 8:40 - 10:00

Keynotego to top

Kamau Bobb
Room: Mulva Auditorium
Chair: Jamie Payton (Temple University, USA)
Considering Technology and Modern Citizenship
Kamau Bobb (Google, USA)
pg. 221

Thursday, March 26 10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Breakgo to top

Room: Mulva Foyer

Thursday, March 26 10:30 - 12:00

S7: Securitygo to top

Chair: Delphine Reinhardt (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Accurate and Robust Rogue Access Point Detection with Client-Agnostic Wireless Fingerprinting
Yuxiang Lin, Yi Gao, Bingji Li and Wei Dong (Zhejiang University, China)
pp. 222-231
LightDefender: Protecting PIN Input using Ambient Light Sensor
Jiacheng Shang and Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)
pp. 232-241
An Analysis of Adversarial Attacks and Defenses on Autonomous Driving Models
Yao Deng (Macquarie University, Australia); Xi Zheng (Macquarie University & School of Engineering, Australia); Tianyi Zhang (Harvard University, USA); Chen Chen (University of Sydney, Australia); Guannan Lou (Macquarie University, Australia); Miryung Kim (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
pp. 242-251

Thursday, March 26 12:00 - 1:30

Lunchgo to top

Room: Etta Harbin Alumni Center

Thursday, March 26 1:30 - 3:00

S8: Crowdsensing and Collaborationgo to top

Chair: Brent Lagesse (University of Washington Bothell, USA)
Let Opportunistic Crowdsensors Work Together for Resource-efficient, Quality-aware Observations
Yifan Du (INRIA, France); Françoise Sailhan (CNAM, France); Valerie Issarny (INRIA, France)
pp. 252-261
COSINE: Collaborator Selector for Cooperative Multi-Device Sensing and Computing
Huber Flores (University of Tartu, Estonia & University of Helsinki, Finland); Agustin Zuniga (University of Helsinki, Finland); Farbod Faghihi (Reaktor, Finland); Xin Li (University of Helsinki, Finland); Samuli Hemminki (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland); Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland); Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & University of Helsinki, Hong Kong); Petteri Nurmi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
pp. 262-271
Participants Selection for From-Scratch Mobile Crowdsensing Via Reinforcement Learning
Yunfan Hu (Currently none, China); Jiangtao Wang (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Bo Wu (Columbia University, USA); Sumi Helal (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
pp. 272-281

Thursday, March 26 3:00 - 3:30

Coffee Breakgo to top

Room: Mulva Foyer

Thursday, March 26 3:30 - 4:30

S9: Computing and Communicationgo to top

Chair: Amy L Murphy (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Cross-Technology Communication through Symbol-Level Energy Modulation for Commercial Wireless Networks
Junmei Yao (Shenzhen University, China); Xiaolong Zheng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jun Xu and Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen University, China)
pp. 282-291
Multipath Computation Offloading for Mobile Augmented Reality
Tristan Braud (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Pengyuan Zhou and Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki, Finland); Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & University of Helsinki, Hong Kong)
pp. 292-301

Thursday, March 26 4:30 - 5:00

Town Hallgo to top

Room: Mulva Auditorium
Chair: Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)