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