iWOAR 2026 - 11th international Workshop on Sensor-Based Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Preliminary Program of iWOAR 2026

(Papers are temporary available until the proceedings are released with Springer!)

Thursday, September 10

9:00 - 9:20	Registration (Location: Building L - Lecture Hall L0.13.)
9:20 - 9:30	Opening (General Chairs & Host Institution Representatives)
9:30 - 10:30	Keynote (Speaker Prof. Dr. Kristof Van Laerhoven)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00	Session #1: The Evolution and the Future of Human Activity Recognition(Chair: Gerald Bieber) The Evolution in Human Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence – A Decade of iWOAR (Ruben Schlonsak, Marco Gabrecht and Denys J.C. Matthies) Where to Sense Before What to Classify: A Full-Body Tracking Pilot Study on Real-Time HAR (Ruben Schlonsak, Marco Gabrecht, Jierui Li and Denys J.C. Matthies) Inertial Pose-Based Human Activity Recognition From Sparse On-Body IMUs (Ricarda Link and Heiner Stuckenschmidt) FootSense: A Foot-Centric Dataset and Framework for Energy-Efficient HAR and Terrain Recognition (Dominique Nshimyimana, Vitor Fortes Rey, Bo Zhou and Paul Lukowicz)
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00	Session #2: Advancing Activity Recognition: Sampling, Fusion, and Model Efficiency(Chair: Biying Fu) Integrating Adaptive Sampling into Deep Learning-Based Human Activity Recognition (Pavankumar Chandankar, Marius Bock, Juergen Gall, Michael Moeller and Kristof Van Laerhoven) A Comparison of Fusion Techniques for Multi-Modal Human Activity Recognition on the HARMES Dataset (Ahmed Mohamady, Robin Burchard and Kristof Van Laerhoven) PACE-HAR: Partitioned Adapter-Based Capacity Extension for Interference-Free Cross-Dataset Wearable Models (Vishal Banwari, Daniel Geissler, Bo Zhou and Paul Lukowicz) Dual-Stage Pruning for Human Activity Recognition on Microcontrollers (Quang Thong Phan and Kristof Van Laerhoven)
14:00 - 14:30	Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:30	Session #3: Wearable User Experience: Placement, Form Factor, and Interaction(Chair: Noel D’Avis) Beyond the Pocket: A Large-Scale Survey on User Preferences of Bodily Placements of Wearable Technology (Joanna Sorysz, Lars Krupp, Dominique Nshimyimana, Meagan B. Loerakker, Bo Zhou, Paul Lukowicz and Jakob Karolus) I-Measure-Ur-♥! A Comprehensive Evaluation of Multi-Position Wearable SCG (Arina Borzistaia, Ruichao Cheng and Denys J.C. Matthies) Forget the Dashboard? Ask the Shop Floor: Wearable Multi-Turn Voice Assistance for Smart Factories (Mathias Pelka) JITAI-Wizard: An Open-Source Android and Wear OS Tool for Wearable Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions in Wizard-of-Oz Studies (Robin Burchard, Sebastian Jens Koschorreck, Jason Alexander Klaas and Kristof Van Laerhoven)
15:30 - 15:40	Poster 1-min-Lightning-Talks (show accepted Short Papers) Evaluating ESP-NOW for transmitting sensor data between wearable devices (Michael Brilka and Kristof Van Laerhoven) Ambient Green – Screenless Device for Intuitive Communication of Environmental Conditions (Maximilian Völkl, Moritz Krause and Michael Zöllner) Rhythm Breaks: A Wearable EEG Setup for Interbrain Synchrony in Remote Collaboration (Holly McKee, Adrian Schmidt, Sahil Farook, Saad Bin Khalid, Gayathri Pichai and Bert Arnrich) Deployment-Oriented Machine Learning for IMU-Based Human Activity Recognition in Wearable and Exoskeleton Applications (Ankitha Suma Deshpande) IMU Data Availability and Usability in Post-Stroke Rehabilitation: Preliminary Findings from the Sensor-S Study (Fatemeh Sardadvar, Annemarie Uhlig, Nurcennet Kaynak, Valentin Kennel, Anne Leopold, Rok Kos, Sebastian Woinar, Felix Schmidt, Alexander Heinrich Nave and Bert Arnrich) Do We Really Need UWB? Evaluating RSSI and UWB for Location-Aware Activity Recognition (Kristina Kirsten and Bert Arnrich) Can Consumer Wearables Provide Usable Signals? A Multimodal Data Quality Assessment in Real-World Stroke Rehabilitation (Annemarie Uhlig, Fatemeh Sardadvar, Nurcennet Kaynak, Valentin Kennel, Anne Leopold, Rok Kos, Sebastian Woinar, Felix Schmidt, Alexander Nave and Bert Arnrich) Preliminary analysis on effects of classroom and ventilation conditions during university lectures (Moritz Krause, Michael Zöllner, Sebastian Wengler and Giulio Ammendola) Skate Sense: A Visual Feedback System for Skateboarding Using Pose-Based Motion Analysis (Sebastian Wengler, Michael Zöllner and Moritz Krause ) Federated Interpretable Speech Biomarkers for Parkinson’s Detection: Evaluating Explanation Stability (Najmeh Mohajeri and Ute Bauer-Wersing) Distinguishing Human and AI Gameplay in Atari Games: An Exploratory Study of Human Perception and Behavioral Classification (Toni Bingenheimer, Martin Weier and Biying Fu)
15:40 - 16:30	Poster Session & Plenary Discussion
17:45 - 18:00	Transition to the Boat(Busses are provided)
18:15 - 22:15	Best Paper Banquet & Dinner(Location: Wiesbaden-Biebrich - Primus Line)

Friday, September 11

9:30 - 10:00	Morning Gathering with Coffee
10:00 - 11:00	Keynote (Speaker Dr. Andreas Braun)
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00	Session #4: Trust, Privacy, and AI for Good(Chair: Denys J.C. Matthies) Privacy Firewall for Older Adults: A Semantic Gateway for Trustworthy Ambient Assisted Living (Tim Markwardt, Gerald Bieber, Purbaditya Bhattacharya and Christian Peter) Evaluation of General-Purpose AI for Mouse Grimace Scale Assessment and Implications for Animal Welfare Metrics (Gerald Bieber)
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00	Session #5: Health, Wellbeing, and Movement Monitoring(Chair: Silvia Faquiri) Real-Time Edge Detection of Anxiety and Stress Related Activities Using Multi-Scale TCNs and Self-Attention (Ugonna Oleh and Roman Obermaisser) Understanding Emotional and Behavioural Responses Through Physiological Signal Analysis Recorded During Theatrical Performance (Aditi Site, Annariina Lohiranta and Tarmo Lipping) Multimodal Dataset and Evaluation Benchmarks for Pathological Gait Classification with Consumer-Grade Devices (Benjamin Lins, Adrian Ulges and Biying Fu) Device-Free Fall Detection from LiDAR Point Clouds Using a Three-Keypoint Skeleton: A Subject-Independent Comparison of Simple and Graph-Convolutional Classifiers (Noel D'Avis and Silvia Faquiri)
14:00 - 14:15	Closing Remarks & Best Paper Award (General Chairs)

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline

~~June 25, 2026 - 23.59 (CET)~~
July 07, 2026 - 23.59 (CET)

Author‘s Notification

August 01, 2026 - 23.59 (CET)

Poster Submission Deadline

~~August 07, 2026 - 23.59 (CET)~~
August 14, 2026 - 23.59 (CET)

Author Registration Deadline

Sept. 01, 2026 - 23.59 (CET)

Begin of Event

Sept. 10, 2026 - 9.00 (CET)

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