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  Tuesday, March 12 Wednesday, March 13 Thursday, March 14
8:30 ‑ 8:45 am O1: Conference Opening    
8:45 ‑ 9:45 am K1: Keynote-1 K2: Keynote-2 P1: PerCom Panel
9:45 ‑ 10:10 am      
10:10 ‑ 10:15 am     S6: Localisation and Context Detection
10:15 ‑ 10:20 am   S4: Best Paper Candidates
10:20 ‑ 11:45 am S1: Pervasive Sensing and Data Collection
11:45 ‑ 11:50 am  
11:50 am ‑ 12:10 pm    
12:10 ‑ 1:15 pm      
1:15 ‑ 1:20 pm   S5: Activity Recognition and Applied Machine Learning  
1:20 ‑ 1:30 pm   S7: Edge Computing and Offloading
1:30 ‑ 3:15 pm S2: Trust, Security, Privacy
3:15 ‑ 3:20 pm  
3:20 ‑ 3:30 pm    
3:30 ‑ 3:45 pm      
3:45 ‑ 4:00 pm     S8: Pervasive and Augmented User Interfaces
4:00 ‑ 5:00 pm S3: Concise Contributions  
5:00 ‑ 5:45 pm    

Tuesday, March 12

Tuesday, March 12 8:30 - 8:45

O1: Conference Openinggo to top

Chairs: Behrooz Shirazi (Washington State University, USA), Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Tuesday, March 12 8:45 - 9:45

K1: Keynote-1go to top

Networked Robot Swarms-Ready or Not?
Kevin Fall (ACM, USA)
Chair: Behrooz Shirazi (Washington State University, USA)
Networked Robot Swarms-Ready or Not?
Kevin Fall (ACM, USA)
pg. 1

Tuesday, March 12 10:20 - 11:50

S1: Pervasive Sensing and Data Collectiongo to top

Chair: Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
WiWear: Wearable Sensing via Directional WiFi Energy Harvesting
Vu Tran and Archan Misra (Singapore Management University, Singapore); Jie Xiong (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA); Rajesh K Balan (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
pp. 2-11
bioSmartSense: A Bio-inspired Data Collection Framework for Energy-efficient, QoI-aware Smart City Applications
Satyaki Roy (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA); Nirnay Ghosh (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore); Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
pp. 12-21
Improving Experience Sampling with Multi-view User-driven Annotation Prediction
Jonathan Liono and Flora D Salim (RMIT University, Australia); Niels van Berkel and Vassilis Kostakos (The University of Melbourne, Australia); Alex Kai Qin (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
pp. 22-32

Tuesday, March 12 1:30 - 3:30

S2: Trust, Security, Privacygo to top

Chair: Sergio Mascetti (Università degli Studi di Milano & EveryWare Technologies, Italy)
On The Performance Bound of Structured Key-Based RFID Authentication
Kazuya Sakai (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan); Min-Te Sun (National Central University, Taiwan); Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn University, USA); Ten-Hwang Lai (Ohio State university, USA)
pp. 33-42
Aggregating Crowd Wisdom via Blockchain: A Private, Correct, and Robust Realization
Huayi Duan, Yifeng Zheng and Yuefeng Du (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Zhou Anxin (City of University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Man Ho Au (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
pp. 43-52
Do You See What I See? Detecting Hidden Streaming Cameras Through Similarity of Simultaneous Observation
Kevin Wu (University of Washington, USA); Brent Lagesse (University of Washington Bothell, USA)
pp. 53-62
DoubleEcho: Mitigating Context-Manipulation Attacks in Copresence Verification
Hien Thi Thu Truong (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany); Juhani Toivonen (University of Helsinki, Finland); Thien Duc Nguyen (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Claudio Soriente (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany); Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland); N. Asokan (Aalto University & University of Helsinki, Finland)
pp. 63-71

Tuesday, March 12 4:00 - 5:00

S3: Concise Contributionsgo to top

Chair: Ali Hurson (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
Autoencoders for QoS Prediction at the Edge
Gary White (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Andrei Palade (Distributed Systems Group, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Christian Cabrera and Siobhán Clarke (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
pp. 72-80
Representation Learning for Minority and Subtle Activities in a Smart Home Environment
Andrea Rosales Sanabria, Tom Kelsey and Juan Ye (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
pp. 81-87
Hot or Not? Robust and Accurate Continuous Thermal Imaging on FLIR cameras
Titti Malmivirta, Jonatan Hamberg, Eemil Lagerspetz and Xin Li (University of Helsinki, Finland); Ella Peltonen (University of Oulu, Finland); Huber Flores (Unversity of Helsinki, Finland); Petteri Nurmi (University of Helsinki, Finland & Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
pp. 88-96
Robust Audio Sensing with Multi-Sound Classification
Peter M Haubrick and Juan Ye (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
pp. 97-103

Wednesday, March 13

Wednesday, March 13 8:45 - 9:45

K2: Keynote-2go to top

Chair: Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Studies on Interactive Robots
Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University, Japan)
pg. 104

Wednesday, March 13 10:15 - 11:45

S4: Best Paper Candidatesgo to top

Chair: Gregor Schiele (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Quantifying the Breakability of Voice Assistants
Maliheh Shirvanian (Visa Research, USA); Summer Vo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Nitesh Saxena (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
pp. 105-115
Always-On Quick Charging for Mobile Devices
Daeyong Kim, Seunghyeok Jeon and Sukjun Lee (Yonsei University, Korea); Hojung Cha (Yonsei University, S. Korea, Korea)
pp. 116-125
Securely Storing and Sharing Memory Cues in Memory Augmentation Systems: A Practical Approach
Agon Bexheti, Marc Langheinrich and Ivan Elhart (Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland); Nigel Davies (Lancaster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
pp. 126-135

Wednesday, March 13 1:15 - 3:15

S5: Activity Recognition and Applied Machine Learninggo to top

Chair: Flora D Salim (RMIT University, Australia)
Passive Capacitive based Approach for Full Body Gym Workout Recognition and Counting
Sizhen Bian (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany); Vitor F Rey (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz & University of Kaiserslautern, Germany); Peter Hevesi (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany); Paul Lukowicz (DFKI and University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
pp. 136-145
Super Low Resolution RF Powered Accelerometers for Alerting on Hospitalized Patient Bed Exits
Michael Chesser and Asangi Jayatilaka (The University of Adelaide, Australia); Renuka Visvanathan (The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Australia); Christophe Fumeaux (The University of Adelaide & School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Australia); Alanson Sample (University of Michigan, USA); Damith C. Ranasinghe (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
pp. 146-155
Avoiding Stress Driving: Online Trip Recommendation from Driving Behavior Prediction
Rohit Verma (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India); Bivas Mitra and Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
pp. 156-165
Automatic Detection of Urban Features from Wheelchair Users' Movements
Gabriele Civitarese (University of Milan, Italy); Sergio Mascetti (Università degli Studi di Milano & EveryWare Technologies, Italy); Alberto Butifar (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy)
pp. 166-175

Thursday, March 14

Thursday, March 14 8:45 - 9:45

P1: PerCom Panelgo to top

Chair: Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy)

Thursday, March 14 10:10 - 12:10

S6: Localisation and Context Detectiongo to top

Chair: Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg & Faculty Information Systems and Applied Computer Science, Germany)
EHAAS: Energy Harvesters As A Sensor for Place Recognition on Wearables
Yoshinori Umetsu and Yugo Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Yutaka Arakawa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology & NAIST, Japan); Manato Fujimoto and Hirohiko Suwa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
pp. 222-231
WiDeep:WiFi-based Accurate and Robust Indoor Localization System using Deep Learning
Moustafa Abbas (Alexandria University, Egypt); Moustafa Elhamshary (Egypt-Japan University for Science and Technology & School of Communication and Computer Science, Egypt); Hamada Rizk (EJUST, Egypt); Marwan Torki and Moustafa Youssef (Alexandria University, Egypt)
pp. 232-241
Automatic Detection of Everyday Social Behaviours and Environments from Verbatim Transcripts of Daily Conversations
Kristina Yordanova (University of Rostock, Germany); Burcu Demiray (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Matthias R. Mehl (University of Arizona, USA); Mike Martin (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
pp. 242-251
HCFContext: Smartphone Context Inference via Sequential History-based Collaborative Filtering
Vidyasagar Sadhu and Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA); Vincent Sritapan (DHS, USA); Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA)
pp. 252-261

Thursday, March 14 1:20 - 3:20

S7: Edge Computing and Offloadinggo to top

Chair: Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Low-latency distributed computation offloading for pervasive environments
Claudio Cicconetti, Marco Conti and Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy)
pp. 262-271
Context-Aware Data and Task Placement in Edge Computing Environments
Martin Breitbach, Dominik Schäfer and Janick Edinger (University of Mannheim, Germany); Christian Becker (Universität Mannheim, Germany)
pp. 272-281
POET: Privacy on the Edge with Bidirectional Data Transformations
Nianyu Li (Peking University, P.R. China); Christos Tsigkanos (TU Wien, Austria); Zhi Jin (Peking University, P.R. China); Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
pp. 282-291
Extreme SDN Framework for IoT and Mobile Applications Flexible Privacy at the Edge
Mostafa Uddin (Bell Labs (Nokia), USA); Tamer Nadeem and Santosh Kumar Nukavarapu (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
pp. 292-302

Thursday, March 14 3:45 - 5:45

S8: Pervasive and Augmented User Interfacesgo to top

Chair: Kristina Yordanova (University of Rostock, Germany)
HIBEY: Hide the Keyboard in Augmented Reality
Lik Hang Lee, Kit Yung Lam, Yui Pan Yau and Tristan Braud (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & University of Helsinki, Hong Kong)
pp. 303-312
AcouDigits: Enabling Users to Input Digits in the Air
Yongpan Zou, Qiang Yang, Yetong Han and Dan Wang (Shenzhen University, P.R. China); Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong); Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen University, P.R. China)
pp. 313-321
M2A: A Framework for Visualizing Information from Mobile Web to Mobile Augmented Reality
Kit Yung Lam, Lik Hang Lee and Tristan Braud (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & University of Helsinki, Hong Kong)
pp. 322-331
Sonification of Rotation Instructions to Support Navigation of People with Visual Impairment
Dragan Ahmetovic (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy); Federico Avanzini (University of Milano, Italy); Adriano Baratè, Cristian Bernareggi and Gabriele Galimberti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy); Luca Ludovico (Università degli Studi di Milano & LIM, Italy); Sergio Mascetti (Università degli Studi di Milano & EveryWare Technologies, Italy); Giorgio Presti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
pp. 332-341