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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
			      
              3rd International Conference on Body Area Networks 
                             (BODYNETS 2008)

                            March 13-15, 2008 
                          Tempe, Arizona, USA

                      In Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI
              Technical Sponsorship: IEEE Computer Society Technical
                    Committee on Wearable Information Systems
                    Co-sponsors: Create-Net and ICST

            http://impact.asu.edu/bodynets or http://www.bodynets.org/
              
            PAPER REGISTRATION: OCTOBER 22, 2007 (DUE: OCTOBER 29, 2007) (firm)            		
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SCOPE:

Recent advances in the field of wireless sensor networks have moved them beyond their traditional 
areas of application in monitoring of remote and mobile environments. Sensor networks are increasingly 
being deployed within and at the surface of the human body to form Body Area Networks (BodyNets). 
BodyNets allow for unidirectional (monitoring) and even bidirectional (effector) interactions. 
They can be utilized in diverse applications such as physiological monitoring, human computer interactions, 
education and entertainment through interactive games. This conference will explore and explain the scope 
and challenges of designing, building, and deploying BodyNets. In this regard, the conference aims to 
establish a forum to bring together research professionals from diverse fields including computer science, 
biomedical engineering and medicine in both academia and industry to address the technical, social, systems 
and application issues related to BodyNets.
 
BodyNets 2008 invites submissions that describe original, research work not published and are not currently
under review elsewhere. The topics of interest include (but not limited to):
*  BodyNets Systems and Technology
  - Novel communication techniques and protocols
  - In-vivo, on-body, near-body networks
  - Performance modeling
  - System design issues
  	+ Powering
  	+ Reliability and fault-tolerance
  	+ Security and privacy, including HIPAA for medical applications
* HCI/Wearable Computing
  - Social impacts
  - Usability
  - Brain Computer Interactions
  - Wearable system design issues
  - Entertainment
  - Assistive Technologies (for aging and disabled)
* Medical Applications
  - Pervasive health care and patient monitoring
 	+ within hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings
 	+ in residential and other non healthcare delivery settings
  - BodyNets for Prosthetics
  - Novel medical applications of BodyNets
 
The proceedings of the conference will be listed in the ACM Digital Library.
Extended version of technically superior papers will be invited for  
IEEE JSAC special issue on Body Area Networks: Technology and Applications 
(see: http://impact.asu.edu/BodyAreaNetworksCFP.pdf) and meritorious papers related to 
multimedia issues will be invited for IEEE Multimedia.

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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Paper Registration: Oct 22, 2007 
Paper Submission Deadline: Oct 29, 2007 (firm)
Notification of Acceptance: Dec 21, 2007
Camera Ready Deadline: Jan 21, 2008
Conference Dates: March 13-17, 2008
 
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
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Authors are invited to submit PDF versions of full papers of up to 8 pages, short 
papers of up to 4 pages, and poster papers 2 pages in ACM conference proceedings format 
through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it). Please check conference web-site for detailed
instructions.
 
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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GENERAL CHAIR:
Sethuraman Panchanathan, ASU, USA 

TPC CHAIR:
Sandeep K. S. Gupta, ASU, USA, 

TPC Co-Chairs:
 HCI/Wearable Computing:
   Daniel Siewiorek, CMU, USA

 Medical Applications:
   Timothy Buchman, WUSTL, USA

 Wireless Networking:
   Loren Schwiebert, WSU, USA

INDUSTRY TRACK CO-CHAIRS:
Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research 
Mary-Murphy Hoye, Intel Corp.

CONFERENCE CO-ORDINATOR:
Zita Rozsa, ICST Europe

PUBLICITY CHAIR and WEBMASTER:
Krishna Venkatasubramanian, ASU, USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR:
Georgios Varsamopoulos, ASU, USA

PUBLICATION CHAIR:
Leif Hanlen, NICTA, AU

SPONSORSHIP CHAIR:
Gianni Giorgetti, ASU, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE:
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy 

GENERAL VICE CHAIR:
David Tacconi, Create-Net, Italy

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TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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See http://impact.asu.edu/~bodynets