Everyday Wearable for Personalized Health and Well-Being
A one‑day workshop bringing together researchers, designers, engineers, and clinicians to chart the future of affordable, scalable, and truly personalized healthcare wearables in HCI.
Venue: [Conference Name], [Date], [Location] | Submissions due: Feb 13, 2025 (AoE)
Introduction
Healthcare is becoming more personalized, adaptive, and scalable. Technologies are moving onto the body in portable, wearable forms—shifting care from clinics into daily life (e.g., from bulky clinical monitors to consumer wearables, from lab‑based measurements to at‑home monitoring, and from one‑size‑fits‑all rehabilitation to adaptive therapies).
Unlike conventional interactive devices, healthcare wearables must generalize across populations while adapting to individual needs, body shapes, biosignal profiles, and perceptions of comfort, usability, and trust. Advances in computational design, digital fabrication, and AI now make such systems practical at scale. Our workshop convenes the HCI community to explore these directions and chart a path forward.
Opportunities, Themes, & Research Questions
Personalized & Low‑Cost Fabrication
- Affordability at scale without losing personalization.
- Methods: digital knitting, 3D printing, embroidery, printable electronics.
Personalized Behavior Modeling
- Multimodal sensing + AI for individual differences in movement and recovery.
- Balancing generalization with sensitivity to personal patterns.
Patients & Caregivers
- Patient needs (comfort, usability, clinical relevance) vs. therapist needs (interpretability, actionability).
- Interfaces for shared decision‑making.
Hardware–Software Co‑Optimization
- Co‑design for robustness, adaptability, efficiency.
- Trade‑offs: energy, fidelity, comfort.
System Adaptation & Long‑Term Personalization
- Adapting as needs and abilities evolve.
- Strategies for long‑term personalization at scale.
Objectives & Outcomes
- Online collection of systems and interfaces for personalized healthcare.
- Shared vocabulary around experience, agency, and control.
- Open research questions for 5‑ and 50‑year horizons.
- Methodological grounding across disciplines; criteria of success.
- Community building across fabrication, healthcare, and HCI.
Workshop Schedule (Two Sessions)
Session 1 — Community & Shared Context
Session 2 — Deepening & Vision Setting
Organizers
Yiyue Luo
Assistant Professor, UW ECE. Leads the Wearable Intelligence Lab. Ph.D. MIT EECS. Interdisciplinary work on wearable technology and AI for healthcare, robotics, and HCI.
Qiuyue “Shirley” Xue
Assistant Professor, Purdue CSE. [Add bio]
Junyi Zhu
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan EECS. [Add bio]
Xuhai “Orson” Xu
Assistant Professor, Columbia DBMI; Visiting Faculty Researcher, Google. [Add bio]
Liang He
Assistant Professor, UT Dallas CS. [Add bio]
Call for Participation
We invite 2–4 page position papers (ACM Extended Abstracts format) describing technologies, prototypes, case studies, or perspectives on low‑cost and personalized healthcare wearables. Include 1–2 discussion points aligned with our themes. Submissions are non‑anonymized PDFs.
Feb 13, 2025 (AoE)
Mar 10, 2025
Up to 20 attendees (diverse backgrounds & career stages)
Accessibility
We are committed to accessibility and inclusion, following ACM SIGCHI guidelines. Materials (website, slides, CfP) will be provided in accessible formats; we will support captioning where possible and encourage clear visuals with alt text. Please contact the organizers with specific accessibility needs.