Wearables Collective, Weaving Innovation into Stages of Life

Call for Papers

Track 1 - Soft Systems Applications:
  • Embodied, tactile and sensory e-textiles 

  • New smart material explorations including biomaterials

  • Craft for e-textiles and other soft systems

  • Textiles and other material forms crossing over with technology for sensing, actuating, communication and computing  

Track 2 - Wearable Product/Technology Applications:
  • Wearable tangible interfaces

  • Novel smart clothing and other forms of wearable product applications with embodied sensing and actuating capabilities for new-born, babies, childhood and teen, adults including medical; wellbeing; rehabilitation; workwear health and safety; fitness; competitive sports; mental health; long-term medical care; palliative care; disability & reduced cognitive skills.

  • Novel design processes and methods for wearable product/technology/smart clothing applications.

  • Commercialization of wearable product/technology/smart clothing: prototype to production, achieving scale; testing, current and anticipated future regulations; market Trends, identifying and planning for 2028.

  • Industrial and manufacturing applications for wearables

Track 3 - Tangible Human-Computer/Robot Interface Applications:
  • Novel tangible interfaces for robotic applications 

  • Tangible interfaces in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)

  • AI for tangible human-computer/robot interface applications

  • Tangible human-computer/robot interfaces for accessibility

  • Ethical and Privacy Considerations

Full Paper

Please submit full papers (4000-6000 words) no later than January 26th 2023. The accepted full papers will be published online and available via Open Access through University of California eScholarship Repository. A select number of accepted papers will be invited to contribute to a special issue of “The Design Journal”

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Short Paper

Please submit short papers (no more than 2000 words). The accepted short papers will be published online and available via Open Access through University of California eScholarship Repository. 

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Key Dates
  • Deadline for submission of full and short papers – Extended to January 26th 2024

  • Notification of acceptance – February 10th 2024

  • Camera-ready deadline – March 1st 2024

Paper Submission

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=wc2024