Workshop Programme (pdf)

Tuesday April 12, 2005                                                                                                                    

08:30 Registration and coffee

09:30  Introduction

Session 1: Technical and Clinical Challenges of Body Sensor Networks
Chair: Prof. Joe Paradiso - MIT


09:45 Body Sensor Networks: Technical Challenges and Clinical Opportunities
Prof. Sir Magdi Yacoub - Imperial College London

10:15 Wireless Connectivity in Healthcare
Dr. Rob Mulder -  Vice President Common Technology of Philips Medical Systems

10:45 Discussion

10:50  Tea Break

Session 2: Sensor Platforms and Design
Chair: Dr Leonard Fass - GE Healthcare

11:20 Drug-Delivering Integrated Therapeutic Systems
Prof. Adam Heller - University of Texas at Austin

11:50 A Multi-Parameter Laboratory-in-a-Pill Device with Real-Time Data Processing
Lei Wang - Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow

12:00 A Sensor Node for Non-Invasive Cardio-Respiratory Monitoring of Infants
Ioannis Thanasopoulos - Electronic Sensors Laboratory, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

12:10 Key Technical Challenges and Current Implementations of Body Sensor Networks
Benny Lo - Dept of Computing, Imperial College London

12:20 Discussion

12:40 Lunch Break

Session 3: Ubiquitous and Embedded Computing
Chair: Prof. Hans Gellersen - Lancaster University

14:00 Room to Room Location using Wearable Sensors for Tracking Social Health of Elders
Dr. Terry Dishongh - Lead Hardware Engineer, Intel Proactive Health Lab

14:30 Remote Monitoring of Patients Suffering from Early Symptoms of Dementia
A. A. Reeves - Pervasive ICT Research Centre, BT, Ipswich 

14:40 A Distributed Bayesian Framework for Body Sensor Network
Surapa Thiemjarus - Dept of Computing, Imperial College London

14:50 Real-time Analysis of Correlations Between On-Body Sensor Nodes (with Topological Map Architectures)
Kristof van Laerhoven - Dept of Computing, Lancaster University 
Martin Berchtold - University of Karlsruhe

15:00 Discussion

15:20 Tea Break

Session 4: Communications and Distributed Systems
Chair: Prof. Morris Sloman - Imperial College London

15:50 Counting and Colouring in Specknets
Dr. D K Arvind - Director of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture, University of Edinburgh

16:20 System Security for Cyborgs
Prof. Ross Anderson - Cambridge University

16:50 Discussion

17:10 Poster - Demonstration - Exhibition Session
Chair: Mr. Guy Hirson - DTI Nextwave Interface

18:00 Reception and Dinner
Reception and music – 18:00 – 19:30; Buffet Dinner – 19:30 – 20:30; Music – 2030 - 2300

Wednesday, April 13, 2005                                                                                                              

Session 5: Biosensor Technology and Design
Chair: Prof. Tony Cass - Imperial College London

09:30 Implantable Micromachined Wireless Pressure Sensors: Approach and Clinical Demonstration
Prof. Mark Allen - Georgia Institute of Technology

10:00 The Development of a Photo-electrochemical Sensor for the Determination of Cyanide in the Blood of Burns Victims
Alexandra Lindsay - Physiological Flow Studies Group, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College

10:10 Wireless Implantable Micro Sensors and Systems for Ambulatory Monitoring and Control of Therapeutic Procedures
Dr. Diana Hodgins MBE - European Technology for Business Limited (ETB)

10:20 Electrochemical Sensors For Measurement In Neurotransmitters
Mr Bhavik A Patel - Physiological Flow Studies Group, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

10:30 Discussion

10:50 Tea Break

Session 6: Device Design and Power Scavenging
Chair: Dr. Diana Hodgins MBE - European Technology for Business Limited (ETB)

11:20  Bio-Inspired Chemical Electronics: A Methodology for Ultra-Low Power Sensor Processing
Prof. Chris Toumazou – Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London

11:50 Modelling for Optimisation of Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes
Paul Mitcheson - Control and Power Research Group, Imperial College London

12:00 An Integrated Node for Energy Scavenging, Sensing and Data Transmission: Applications in Medical Diagnostics
Kate Hammond - College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

12:10 Acoustic Power Transmission into an Implantable Device
Satu Arra - Institute of Electronics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

12:20 Discussion

12:40 Lunch Break

Session 7: Low power Wireless Communications
Chair: Paul Garner - BT Pervasive ICT Research Centre

14:00 Radio Frequency Technology and In-Body Communications Systems
Mr. Henry Higgins - Microelectronics Division, Zarlink Semiconductor

14:30 Towards High-Level Wireless/Wearable Sensor and Network Design
Dr Farrukh Alavi - Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London

14:40 Narrowband and Wideband Radio Channel Characterisation and Antennas for On-Body Communication Systems
Yuriy Nechayev - Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham

14:50 An Ultra-Low Power 1v Wireless Transceiver Suitable for Body Sensor Networks
Alison Burdett - Toumaz Technology

15:00 Discussion

15:20 Tea Break

Session 8: Clinical Applications and Future Perspectives
Chair: Prof. Nick Peters - Imperial College London

15:50 Ambulatory Monitoring-Embeddable, Wearable “It’s all about fashion” Studies in Wireless Electronics
Dr. Tom Blackadar - Fitsense Corp.

16:20 Assessing Patient Case Management Services with ACHD Sensed Data
Dr. Vassilios Stamatopoulos - Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

16:30 Wireless Body Sensors: The Ultimate Diagnostic Tool ?
Prof. Sir Ara Darzi - Imperial College London

17:00 Concluding Comments
Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang - Imperial College London

Posters/Demonstrations                                                                                                              

1. A Microsystem for Monitoring Heart Motion
Dr Lars Hoff – Faculty of Science and Engineering, Vestfold University College

2. Low Power Ultra Wideband Wireless Transmitter Implementation for Biomedical Sensors
Charles Chun Yi Lee – Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

3. New Techniques for in Vivo Electrochemical Sensing
Costas Anastassiou - Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

4. Practical Deployment of Body Sensor Technology in a Military Context
A R Thurlow, B F Egan, T Mizutani - BT Group, Pervasive ICT Research Centre

5. Body Sensor Networks – Research into a European Application: SILC
Phillip Needham – Cardionetics Limited

6. Sensing Activities of Daily Living on a Limited Power Budget
Ian Neild - Pervasive ICT Research Centre, BT

7. Ubiquitous Sensing for Posture/Behaviour Analysis
Jeffrey L Wang - Department of Computing, Imperial College London

8. Garment-Based Body Monitoring
L E Dunne - University College Dublin, Ireland

9. Embedded Body Sensor Network for Persons with Special Communication Needs to Control and to Interact with the World
A. Lőrincz – Department of Information Systems, Eötvös University, Hungary

10. UbiMon – Ubiquitous Monitoring Environment for Wearable and Implantable Sensors
Benny Lo – Department of Computing, Imperial College London

11. UbiSense – Ubiquitous IR Sensing and Behaviour Profiling for the Care of Elderly and Chronically-ill Patients
Benny Lo – Department of Computing, Imperial College London

12. Hand Gesture Recognition with Body Sensor Networks
Rachel King - Department of Computing, Imperial College London

13. A Simulator for Distributed Ambient Intelligence Sensing
Julien Pansiot – Department of Computing, Imperial College London

14. Real-time Analysis of Correlatons Between On-body Sensors
Kristof van Laerhoven - Department of Computing, Lancaster University