IMWUT Distinguished Paper Awards (DPAs)
IMWUT assigns every year a Distinguished Paper Award to 3-4% of all papers published by the journal in the previous year (volume).
IMWUT DPAs are assigned to outstanding contributions that distinguish themselves for their novelty, completeness and maturity, pedagogical, theoretical, or practical value, or have other characteristics considered exemplary for the IMWUT community.
All papers published in IMWUT in a given volume are considered for the yearly DPA selection process. The awardees are nominated by a selection committee composed every year by outstanding members of the IMWUT community. The selection committee has been chaired by: Elaine Huang & Khai Truong (Vol. 7, 2023); Khai Truong & Silvia Santini (Vol. 6, 2022); Judy Kay, Antonio Krüger, and Khai Truong (Vol. 5, 2021); Judy Kay, Antonio Krüger, and Khai Truong (Vol. 4, 2020); Judy Kay, Antonio Krüger (Vol. 3, 2019); Antonio Krüger, Silvia Santini (Vol. 2, 2019); Silvia Santini (Vol. 1, 2017).
DPA Awards PACM IMWUT Volume 7 (2023)
Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Chen Chen, Anurag Maravi, Mike Czapik, Yang Zhang, Chris Harrison, Yuvraj Agarwal. 2023. Mites: Design and Deployment of a General-Purpose Sensing Infrastructure for Buildings. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 7, 1, Article 2 (March 2023), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3580865
Joseph Breda, Mastafa Springston, Alex Mariakakis, Shwetak Patel. 2023. FeverPhone: Accessible Core-Body Temperature Sensing for Fever Monitoring Using Commodity Smartphones. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 7, 1, Article 3 (March 2023), 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3580850
Bo Zhou, Daniel Geissler, Marc Faulhaber, Clara Elisabeth Gleiss, Esther Friederike Zahn, Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, David Gamarra, Vitor Fortes Rey, Sungho Suh, Sizhen Bian, Gesche Joost, Paul Lukowicz. 2023. MoCaPose: Motion Capturing with Textile-integrated Capacitive Sensors in Loose-fitting Smart Garments. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 7, 1, Article 41 (March 2023), 40 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3580883
Pin-Sung Ku, Kunpeng Huang, Nancy Wang, Boaz Ng, Alicia Chu, Hsin-Liu Cindy Kao. 2023. SkinLink: On-body Construction and Prototyping of Reconfigurable Epidermal Interfaces. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 7, 2, Article 62 (June 2023), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3596241
Joonyoung Park, Uichin Lee. 2023. Understanding Disengagement in Just-in-Time Mobile Health Interventions. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 7, 2, Article 72 (June 2023), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3596240
Gwangbin Kim, Dohyeon Yeo, Taewoo Jo, Daniela Rus, SeungJun Kim. 2023. What and When to Explain? On-road Evaluation of Explanations in Highly Automated Vehicle. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 7, 3, Article 104 (September 2023), 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610886
Sofia Yfantidou, Pavlos Sermpezis, Athena Vakali, Ricardo Baeza-Yates. 2023. Uncovering Bias in Personal Informatics. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 7, 3, Article 139 ( September 2023), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610914
Anran Xu, Zhongyi Zhou, Kakeru Miyazaki, Ryo Yoshikawa, Simo Hosio, Koji Yatani. 2023. DIPA2: An Image Dataset with Cross-cultural Privacy Perception Annotations. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 7, 4, Article 192 (December 2023), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3631439
DPA Awards PACM IMWUT Volume 6 (2022)
Aditya Ponnada, Jixin Li, Shirlene Wang, Wei-Lin Wang, Bridgette Do, Genevieve F. Dunton, and Stephen S. Intille. 2022. Contextual Biases in Microinteraction Ecological Momentary Assessment (μEMA) Non-response. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 1, Article 26 (March 2022), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517259
Kunal Gupta, Sam W. T. Chan, Yun Suen Pai, Nicholas Strachan, John Su, Alexander Sumich, Suranga Nanayakkara, and Mark Billinghurst. 2022. Total VREcall: Using Biosignals to Recognize Emotional Autobiographical Memory in Virtual Reality. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 2, Article 55 (June 2022), 21 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3534615
Jingwen Zhang, Dingwen Li, Ruixuan Dai, Heidy Cos, Gregory A. Williams, Lacey Raper, Chet W. Hammill, and Chenyang Lu. 2022. Predicting Post-Operative Complications with Wearables: A Case Study with Patients Undergoing Pancreatic Surgery. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 2, Article 87 (June 2022), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3534578
James Devine, Michal Moskal, Peli de Halleux, Thomas Ball, Steve Hodges, Gabriele D'Amone, David Gakure, Joe Finney, Lorraine Underwood, Kobi Hartley, Paul Kos, and Matt Oppenheim. 2022. Plug-and-play Physical Computing with Jacdac. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 3, Article 110 (September 2022), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550317
Haoran Wan, Lei Wang, Ting Zhao, Ke Sun, Shuyu Shi, Haipeng Dai, Guihai Chen, Haodong Liu, and Wei Wang. 2022. VECTOR: Velocity Based Temperature-field Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Devices. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 3, Article 144 (September 2022), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550336
Ananta Narayanan Balaji, Clayton Kimber, David Li, Shengzhi Wu, Ruofei Du, and David Kim. 2023. RetroSphere: Self-Contained Passive 3D Controller Tracking for Augmented Reality. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 157 (December 2022), 36 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569479
Lakmal Meegahapola, William Droz, Peter Kun, Amalia de Götzen, Chaitanya Nutakki, Shyam Diwakar, Salvador Ruiz Correa, Donglei Song, Hao Xu, Miriam Bidoglia, George Gaskell, Altangerel Chagnaa, Amarsanaa Ganbold, Tsolmon Zundui, Carlo Caprini, Daniele Miorandi, Alethia Hume, Jose Luis Zarza, Luca Cernuzzi, Ivano Bison, Marcelo Rodas Britez, Matteo Busso, Ronald Chenu-Abente, Can Günel, Fausto Giunchiglia, Laura Schelenz, and Daniel Gatica-Perez. 2023. Generalization and Personalization of Mobile Sensing-Based Mood Inference Models: An Analysis of College Students in Eight Countries. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 176 (December 2022), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569483
Xuhai Xu, Xin Liu, Han Zhang, Weichen Wang, Subigya Nepal, Yasaman Sefidgar, Woosuk Seo, Kevin S. Kuehn, Jeremy F. Huckins, Margaret E. Morris, Paula S. Nurius, Eve A. Riskin, Shwetak Patel, Tim Althoff, Andrew Campbell, Anind K. Dey, and Jennifer Mankoff. 2023. GLOBEM: Cross-Dataset Generalization of Longitudinal Human Behavior Modeling. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 190 (December 2022), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569485
DPA Awards PACM IMWUT Volume 5 (2021)
Ludovic Barman, Alexandre Dumur, Apostolos Pyrgelis, and Jean-Pierre Hubaux. 2021. Every Byte Matters: Traffic Analysis of Bluetooth Wearable Devices. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 2, Article 54 (June 2021), 45 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3463512
Varun Mishra, Florian Künzler, Jan-Niklas Kramer, Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch, and David Kotz. 2021. Detecting Receptivity for mHealth Interventions in the Natural Environment. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 2, Article 74 (June 2021), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3463492
Patrick Chwalek, David Ramsay, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2021. Captivates: A Smart Eyeglass Platform for Across-Context Physiological Measurement. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 3, Article 93 (Sept 2021), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478079
Zhongyi Zhou, Anran Xu, and Koji Yatani. 2021. SyncUp: Vision-based Practice Support for Synchronized Dancing. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 3, Article 143 (Sept 2021), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478120
Jasmine Jones, Ye Yuan, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2022. Be Consistent, Work the Program, Be Present Every Day: Exploring Technologies for Self-Tracking in Early Recovery. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 4, Article 164 (Dec 2021), 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3494955
DPA Awards PACM IMWUT Volume 4 (2020)
Forsad Al Hossain, Andrew A. Lover, George A. Corey, Nicholas G. Reich, and Tauhidur Rahman. 2020. FluSense: A Contactless Syndromic Surveillance Platform for Influenza-Like Illness in Hospital Waiting Areas. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 4, 1, Article 1 (March 2020), 28 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3381014
Fusang Zhang, Zhaoxin Chang, Kai Niu, Jie Xiong, Beihong Jin, Qin Lv, and Daqing Zhang. 2020. Exploring LoRa for Long-range Through-wall Sensing. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 4, 2, Article 68 (June 2020), 27 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3397326
Nan Gao, Wei Shao, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, and Flora D. Salim. 2020. N-Gage: Predicting in-class Emotional, Behavioural and Cognitive Engagement in the Wild. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 4, 3, Article 79 (September 2020), 26 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411813
Jaeyeon Park, Hyeon Cho, Rajesh Krishna Balan, and JeongGil Ko. 2020. HeartQuake: Accurate Low-Cost Non-Invasive ECG Monitoring Using Bed-Mounted Geophones. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 4, 3, Article 93 (September 2020), 28 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411843
Dingtian Zhang, Jung Wook Park, Yang Zhang, Yuhui Zhao, Yiyang Wang, Yunzhi Li, Tanvi Bhagwat, Wen-Fang Chou, Xiaojia Jia, Bernard Kippelen, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Thad Starner, and Gregory D. Abowd. 2020. OptoSense: Towards Ubiquitous Self-Powered Ambient Light Sensing Surfaces. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 4, 3, Article 103 (September 2020), 27 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411826
Jasper de Winkel, Vito Kortbeek, Josiah Hester, and Przemysław Pawełczak. 2020. Battery-Free Game Boy. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 4, 3, Article 111 (September 2020), 34 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411839
DPA Awards PACM IMWUT Volume 3 (2019)
Mikhail Fomichev, Max Maass, Lars Almon, Alejandro Molina, and Matthias Hollick. 2019. Perils of Zero-Interaction Security in the Internet of Things. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 3, 1, Article 10 (March 2019), 38 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3314397
Brian Y. Lim, Judy Kay, and Weilong Liu. 2019. How Does a Nation Walk? Interpreting Large-Scale Step Count Activity with Weekly Streak Patterns. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 3, 2, Article 57 (June 2019), 46 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3328928
Kazunobu Sumiya, Takuya Sasatani, Yuki Nishizawa, Kenji Tsushio, Yoshiaki Narusue, and Yoshihiro Kawahara. 2019. Alvus: A Reconfigurable 2-D Wireless Charging System. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 3, 2, Article 68 (June 2019), 29 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3332533
Daniel Hintze, Matthias Füller, Sebastian Scholz, Rainhard D. Findling, Muhammad Muaaz, Philipp Kapfer, Eckhard Koch, and René Mayrhofer. 2019. CORMORANT: Ubiquitous Risk-Aware Multi-Modal Biometric Authentication across Mobile Devices. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 3, 3, Article 85 (September 2019), 23 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3351243
Zachary D. King, Judith Moskowitz, Begum Egilmez, Shibo Zhang, Lida Zhang, Michael Bass, John Rogers, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Laurie Wakschlag, and Nabil Alshurafa. 2019. Micro-Stress EMA: A Passive Sensing Framework for Detecting in-the-wild Stress in Pregnant Mothers. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 3, 3, Article 91 (September 2019), 22 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3351249
Farhana Shahid, Wasifur Rahman, Anika Binte Islam, Nipi Paul, Nabila Khan, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Md Munirul Haque, and A. B. M. Alim Al Islam. 2019. Two Tell-tale Perspectives of PTSD: Neurobiological Abnormalities and Bayesian Regulatory Network of the Underlying Disorder in a Refugee Context. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 3, 3, Article 101 (September 2019), 45 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3351259
DPA Awards PACM IMWUT Volume 2 (2018)
Andreas Grammenos, Cecilia Mascolo, and Jon Crowcroft. 2018. You Are Sensing, but Are You Biased? A User Unaided Sensor Calibration Approach for Mobile Sensing. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 1, Article 11 (March 2018), 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3191743
Nivedita Arora, Steven L. Zhang, Fereshteh Shahmiri, Diego Osorio, Yi-Cheng Wang, Mohit Gupta, Zhengjun Wang, Thad Starner, Zhong Lin Wang, and Gregory D. Abowd. 2018. SATURN: A Thin and Flexible Self-powered Microphone Leveraging Triboelectric Nanogenerator. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 2, Article 60 (June 2018), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3214263
Simon Klakegg, Jorge Goncalves, Chu Luo, Aku Visuri, Alexey Popov, Niels van Berkel, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Vassilis Kostakos, Simo Hosio, Scott Savage, Alexander Bykov, Igor Meglinski, and Denzil Ferreira. 2018. Assisted Medication Management in Elderly Care Using Miniaturised Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 2, Article 69 (June 2018), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3214272
Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Sidhant Gupta, Jonathan Lester, Joshua R. Smith, and Desney Tan. 2018. RF Bandaid: A Fully-Analog and Passive Wireless Interface for Wearable Sensors. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 2, Article 79 (June 2018), 21 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3214282
Artem Dementyev, Javier Hernandez, Inrak Choi, Sean Follmer, and Joseph Paradiso. 2018. Epidermal Robots: Wearable Sensors That Climb on the Skin. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 3, Article 102 (September 2018), 22 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3264912
Zhen Tu, Runtong Li, Yong Li, Gang Wang, Di Wu, Pan Hui, Li Su, and Depeng Jin. 2018. Your Apps Give You Away: Distinguishing Mobile Users by Their App Usage Fingerprints. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 3, Article 138 (September 2018), 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3264948
Shuochao Yao, Yiran Zhao, Huajie Shao, Chao Zhang, Aston Zhang, Shaohan Hu, Dongxin Liu, Shengzhong Liu, Lu Su, and Tarek Abdelzaher. 2018. SenseGAN: Enabling Deep Learning for Internet of Things with a Semi-Supervised Framework. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 3, Article 144 (September 2018), 21 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3264954
Chuang-Wen You, Ya-Fang Lin, Yaliang Chuang, Ya-Han Lee, Pei-Yi Hsu, Shih-Yao Lin, Chih-Chun Chang, Yi-Ju Chung, Yi-Ling Chen, Ming-Chyi Huang, Ping-Hsuan Shen, Hsin-Tung Tseng, and Hao-Chuan Wang. 2018. SoberMotion: Leveraging the Force of Probation Officers to Reduce the Risk of DUI Recidivism. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 3, Article 146 (September 2018), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3264956
DPA Awards PACM IMWUT Volume 1 (2017)
Jeremy Gummeson, James Mccann, Chouchang (JACK) Yang, Damith Ranasinghe, Scott Hudson, and Alanson Sample. 2017. RFID Light Bulb: Enabling Ubiquitous Deployment of Interactive RFID Systems. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 1, 2, Article 12 (June 2017), 16 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3090077
Liu Sicong, Zhou Zimu, Du Junzhao, Shangguan Longfei, Jun Han, and Xin Wang. 2017. UbiEar: Bringing Location-independent Sound Awareness to the Hard-of-hearing People with Smartphones. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 1, 2, Article 17 (June 2017), 21 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3090082
Eunji Chong, Katha Chanda, Zhefan Ye, Audrey Southerland, Nataniel Ruiz, Rebecca M. Jones, Agata Rozga, and James M. Rehg. 2017. Detecting Gaze Towards Eyes in Natural Social Interactions and Its Use in Child Assessment. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 1, 3, Article 43 (September 2017), 20 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3131902
Christian Holz and Edward J. Wang. 2017. Glabella: Continuously Sensing Blood Pressure Behavior using an Unobtrusive Wearable Device. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 1, 3, Article 58 (September 2017), 23 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3132024
Vamsi Talla, Mehrdad Hessar, Bryce Kellogg, Ali Najafi, Joshua R. Smith, and Shyamnath Gollakota. 2017. LoRa Backscatter: Enabling The Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 1, 3, Article 105 (September 2017), 24 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3130970
Marc Tonsen, Julian Steil, Yusuke Sugano, and Andreas Bulling. 2017. InvisibleEye: Mobile Eye Tracking Using Multiple Low-Resolution Cameras and Learning-Based Gaze Estimation. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 1, 3, Article 106 (September 2017), 21 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3130971