Workshop

The 1st Workshop on Sensing and Computing for Smart and Connected Health (SCH)

In conjunction with IEEE/ACM CHASE 2025, Manhattan, New York City, USA.

Overview:

Integration of sensing and computing technologies can augment, enhance, and automate human capabilities, paving the way for more effective and accessible healthcare delivery. Serving as a unique interdisciplinary forum, the Workshop on Sensing and Computing for Smart and Connected Health brings together innovations in sensing and computing technologies, approaches, and applications to shape the future of smart and connected health. We invite researchers and healthcare practitioners to submit their latest findings on topics that include, but are not limited to:
  • SCH Technologies and Approaches
    • Wearable/earable/implantable for healthcare
    • Battery-less mobile health monitoring system
    • Multi-modal sensor fusion
    • Ambient and passive sensing
    • Formal methods/control theory for real-time mobile health system
    • Design and implementation of portable healthcare devices and smartphone accessories
    • On-device and resource-aware AI
    • Health-related digital twin/cousin
    • Foundation models for medical data processing
    • Federated learning and privacy-preserving AI
    • Privacy protection, access control, and auditing in mobile health systems
    • Integrated systems and platforms for data acquisition/processing/analytics
    • Telehealth and telemedicine technologies for remote diagnosis and monitoring
    • Sensors for point-of-care diagnosis
    • Devices for in-home monitoring
    • Mobile, portable diagnostic and therapeutic systems
    • Light-weight computing on low-end smartphones
    • Devices which integrate diagnosis and treatment
    • Diagnostics or treatments that do not require special training
    • Devices that can operate in low-resource environments
    • Non-invasive technologies for diagnosis and treatment
    • Integrated, automated system to assess or monitor a specific condition
    • Robotic devices for performing specialized skills or enhancing usability
    • Low-cost biomaterial interfaces to increase medical device and component affordability
  • SCH Applications
    • Assessment of physical/cognitive/sensational functions
    • Smart intervention for prevention of diseases
    • Voice assistant and guidance
    • Communication and social connectivity
    • Remote health monitoring and adaptive interventions
    • AI-assisted aging in place
    • Evolutionary and longitudinal health data modeling and analytics
    • Health companion diagnostic and efficient digital phenotyping on mobile devices
    • Healthcare or therapy app design on smartphones, web, and VR/XR
High Quality papers will be selected for special issue publication in smart health journal.

Important Dates of SCH Workshop:

  • Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025.
  • Workshop Paper Acceptance: March 3, 2025.
  • Workshop Camera-Ready Paper: March 10, 2025.

Workshop Organizers

  • Dr. Chenhan Xu
    Department of Computer Science
    North Carolina State University, USA
  • Dr. Huining Li
    Department of Computer Science
    North Carolina State University, USA
  • Dr. Zongxing Xie
    Department of Computer Science
    Kennesaw State University, USA