BSN 2006: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Clinical Applications

• Rana El Kaliouby, Alea Teeters, Rosalind W. Picard:
  Invited Talk: An Exploratory Social-Emotional Prosthetic for Autism Spectrum Disorders. 3-4
  
• Todd Hester, Richard Hughes, Delsey M. Sherrill, Bethany Knorr, Metin Akay, Joel Stein, Paolo Bonato:
  Using Wearable Sensors to Measure Motor Abilities following Stroke. 5-8
  
• Toni Giorgino, Silvana Quaglini, Federico Lorussi, Danilo De Rossi:
  Experiments in the Detection of Upper Limb Posture through Kinestetic Strain Sensor. 9-12
  
• Omer Aziz, Benny P. L. Lo, Guang-Zhong Yang, Rachel King, Ara Darzi:
  Pervasive Body Sensor Network: An Approach to Monitoring the Post-operative Surgical Patient. 13-18
  

Wearable Sensors

• Ingo Stark:
  Invited Talk: Thermal Energy Harvesting with Thermo Life. 19-22
  
• Torsten Linz, Christine Kallmayer, Rolf Aschenbrenner, Herbert Reichl:
  Fully Integrated EKG Shirt based on Embroidered Electrical Interconnections with Conductive Yarn and Miniaturized Flexible Electronics. 23-26
  
• Eric Wade, H. Harry Asada:
  DC Behavior of Conductive Fabric Networks with Application to Wearable Sensor Nodes. 27-30
  
• Sarah Brady, Dermot Diamond, Brian Carson, Donal O'Gorman, Niall Moyna:
  Combining wireless with wearable technology for the development of on-body networks. 31-36
  

Power Issues and RF Communication

• Rahul Sarpeshkar:
  Invited Talk: Ultra Low Power Electronics for Medicine. 37
  
• Elizabeth K. Reilly, Eric Carleton, Paul K. Wright:
  Thin Film Piezoelectric Energy Scavenging Systems for Long Term Medical Monitoring. 38-41
  
• Eric M. Yeatman:
  Rotating and Gyroscopic MEMS Energy Scavenging. 42-45
  
• Bert Lenaerts, Robert Puers:
  An Omnidirectional Transcutaneous Power Link for Capsule Endoscopy. 46-49
  
• Laurens Roelens, Wout Joseph, Luc Martens:
  Characterization of the Path Loss near Flat and Layered Biological Tissue for Narrowband Wireless Body Area Networks. 50-56
  

Sensor Network Platforms

• Thomas Falck, Javier Espina, Jean-Pierre Ebert, Daniel Dietterle:
  BASUMA - The Sixth Sense for Chronically Ill Patients. 57-60
  
• Nuria Oliver, Fernando Flores-Mangas:
  HealthGear: A Real-time Wearable System for Monitoring and Analyzing Physiological Signals. 61-64
  
• Ryan Aylward, S. Daniel Lovell, Joseph A. Paradiso:
  A Compact, Wireless, Wearable Sensor Network for Interactive Dance Ensembles. 65-70
  

Information Processing & Security

• Peter van der Stok:
  Invited Talk: Configurable Sensor Nodes. 71
  
• Wen Dong, Alex Pentland:
  Multi-sensor Data Fusion Using the Influence Model. 72-75
  
• Jean Luprano, J. Sola, S. Dasen, Jean Mark Koller, O. Chetelat:
  Combination of Body Sensor Networks and On-Body Signal Processing Algorithms: the practical case of MyHeart project. 76-79
  
• Oscar García Morchon, Heribert Baldus, David Sánchez Sánchez:
  Resource-Efficient Security for Medical Body Sensor Networks. 80-83
  
• Shu-Di Bao, Yuan-Ting Zhang, Lian-Feng Shen:
  A Design Proposal of Security Architecture for Medical Body Sensor Networks. 84-90
  

Implantable Sensors

• John Donoghue:
  Invited Talk: A Direct Brain Interface To Restore Function In Humans With Spinal Cord Injury. 91
  
• Joseph H. Schulman:
  Stimulating and Sensing Network Inside the Human Body. 92-95
  
• Costas A. Anastassiou, Bhavik A. Patel, Kim H. Parker, Danny O'Hare:
  Electrochemical Methods for Monitoring Neurotransmitter Dynamics in vitro: From Theory to Experiments. 96-99
  
• J. Van Ham, M. De Cooman, W. Claes, R. Puers, Ignace Naert, Carl Van Lierde, J. L. Beckers:
  An Autonomous Smart Dental Prosthesis for Fast Rehabilitation. 100-106
  

Clinical Applications

• John Wyatt:
  Invited Talk: Steps Toward the Development of a Chronic Retinal Implant. 107
  
• David E. Krebs, James I. Huddleston, Dov Goldvasser, Donna M. Scarborough, William H. Harris, Henrik Malchau:
  Biomotion Community-Wearable Human Activity Monitor: Total Knee Replacement and Healthy Control Subjects. 109-112
  
• Uwe Maurer, Asim Smailagic, Daniel P. Siewiorek, Michael Deisher:
  Activity Recognition and Monitoring Using Multiple Sensors on Different Body Positions. 113-116
  
• A. A. Reeves, J. W. P. Ng, S. J. Brown, N. M. Barnes:
  Remotely Supporting Care Provision for Older Adults. 117-122
  

Poster Session

• Shyamal Patel, Delsey M. Sherrill, Richard Hughes, Todd Hester, Theresa Lie-Nemeth, Paolo Bonato, David Standaert, Nancy Huggins:
  Analysis of the Severity of Dyskinesia in Patients with Parkinson's Disease via Wearable Sensors. 123-126
  
• Todd Hester, Delsey M. Sherrill, Paolo Bonato, Mathieu Hamel, Karine Perreault, Patrick Boissy:
  Using Wearable Sensors to Analyze the Quality of Use of Mobility Assistive Devices. 127-130
  
• Joshua Edmison, David I. Lehn, Mark T. Jones, Thomas Martin:
  E-Textile Based Automatic Activity Diary for Medical Annotation and Analysis. 131-134
  
• Carsten Linti, Hansjürgen Horter, Peter Osterreicher, Heinrich Planck:
  Sensory baby vest for the monitoring of infants. 135-137
  
• Oliver Amft, Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz, Corina Schuster:
  Sensing Muscle Activities with Body-Worn Sensors. 138-141
  
• Uwe Maurer, Anthony Rowe, Asim Smailagic, Daniel P. Siewiorek:
  eWatch: A Wearable Sensor and Notification Platform. 142-145
  
• Lynette A. Jones, Nikhila Deo, Brett Lockyer:
  Wireless Physiological Sensor System for Ambulatory Use. 146-149
  
• Elena Villalba, María Teresa Arredondo, Eva del Hoyo-Barbolla, Sergio Guillén:
  A new solution for a Heart Failure Monitoring system based on Wearable and Information Technologies. 150-153
  
• Liliana Grajales, Ion V. Nicolaescu:
  Wearable Multisensor Heart Rate Monitor. 154-157
  
• Yuan-ting Zhang, X. Y. Xiang, Carmen C. Y. Poon:
  The Evaluation of Nodes of Body Sensor Networks: Wearable Blood Pressure Measuring Devices. 158-161
  
• Chulsung Park, Pai H. Chou:
  Eco: Ultra-Wearable and Expandable Wireless Sensor Platform. 162-165
  
• Martin Ouwerkerk, Frank J. Pasveer, Nur Engin:
  SAND: a modular application development platform for miniature wireless sensors. 166-170
  
• Kristof Van Laerhoven, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Yanni G. Malliaris:
  Long-Term Activity Monitoring with a Wearable Sensor Node. 171-174
  
• Gaetano Borriello, Waylon Brunette, Jonathan Lester, Polly Powledge, Adam D. Rea:
  An Ecosystem of Platforms to Support Sensors for Personal Fitness. 175-178
  
• Lin Zhong, Mike Sinclair, Ray Bittner:
  A Phone-Centered Body Sensor Network Platform: Cost, Energy Efficiency & User Interface. 179-182
  
• Sam Baird, Dan Myung, Steve Moulton, Mark Gaynor, Matt Welsh, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty:
  Communicating Data from Wireless Sensor Networks Using the HL7v3 Standard. 183-186
  
• Bo Morgan, Push Singh:
  Elaborating Sensor Data using Temporal and Spatial Commonsense Reasoning. 187-190
  
• Surapa Thiemjarus, Benny P. L. Lo, Guang-Zhong Yang:
  A Spatio-Temporal Architecture for Context Aware Sensing. 191-194
  
• Julien Pansiot, Danail Stoyanov, Benny P. L. Lo, Guang-Zhong Yang:
  Towards Image-Based Modeling for Ambient Sensing. 195-198
  
• Benny P. L. Lo, Fani Deligianni, Guang-Zhong Yang:
  Source Recovery for Body Sensor Network. 199-202
  
• Joseph D. Gong, Gary Jensen, Ashwin Bhirde, Xin Yu, Bernard Munge, Voymesh Patel, J. Silvio Gutkind, James F. Rusling, SangNyon Kim, Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos:
  Single-Walled Carbon-Nanotube Forest Immunosensor for Amplified Detection of Cancer Biomarkers. 203-207
  
• Ileana Manunza, Alessandra Sulis, Annalisa Bonfiglio:
  Organic Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors for Unconventional Applications: Flexible Sensors and Wearable Devices. 208-211
  
• Paolo Bonato, Danilo De Rossi, André Dittmar, Sundaresan Jayaraman, Ilkka Korhonen, Andreas Lymberis, Eric McAdams, Yuan-Ting Zhang:
  IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Wearable Biomedical Sensors & Systems: Position Paper. 212-214