The First Augmented Human International Conference

The first “Augmented Human (AH)” International Conference will be held in the French ski resort called Megève, one of the twelve Best of the Alps resorts, on April 2nd and 3rd 2010. There is a parallel high-tech fair in Megève at the same time of the Augmented Human International Conference with sport well-being products and services and business angel meetings for innovative companies in the field: http://www.megeve-hightech.com

The proceedings of the conference have been released online in the ACM Digital Library : AH'10 Augmented Human International Conference Proceedings

The proceedings of the conference are published in the ACM Digital Library as a volume in its International Conference Proceedings Series.

The AH international conference focuses on scientific contributions towards augmenting humans capabilities through technology for increased well-being and enjoyable human experience. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Augmented Reality

• Mixed Reality

• Internet of Things

• Augmented Sport

• Sensors and Hardware

• Wearable computing

• Augmented Health

• Augmented Well-being

• Smart artifacts

• Augmented Games

• Augmented Tourism

• Ubiquitous Computing

• Bionics

• Biomechanics

• Technology for Training and Rehabilitation

• Exoskeleton

• Brain Computer Interface

• Augmented Context-Awareness

• Augmented Fashion

• Smart Textiles

• Safety, Ethics and Legal Aspects

• Security and Privacy Aspects

Award: The best paper of the conference will receive an award of 2000€ in cash and a well-being holiday package to be spent in one of the luxury SPA hotels of Megève. The price is sponsored by the French pôle de compétitivité for sport products and services called Sporaltec.

The important dates are:

• January 10th 2010, paper submission deadline

• February 10h 2010, author notification

• February 22th 2010, camera-ready copy

The current keynotes speakers are:

• Pranav Mistry, MIT Media Lab, “Sixth Sense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data”

General Co-Chairs: Hideo Saito, Keio University, Japan & Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Program Co-Chairs: Guillaume Moreau, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France & Pranav Mistry, MIT Media Lab, USA

Organisation Chair: Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Augmented/Mixed Reality Co-Chairs: Guillaume Moreau,  Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France & Masahiko Inami, Keio University, Japan

Brain Computer Interface Co-Chairs:  Karla Felix Navarro, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and Ed Boyden, MIT Media Lab, USA

Biomechanics and Human Performance Chair: Guillaume Millet, Laboratoire de Physiologie de l'Exercice de Saint-Etienne, France

Wearable Computing Chair: Bruce Thomas, University of South Australia

Security and Privacy Chair: Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland

The initial program committee is composed of:

• Peter Froehlich, Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria

• Pranav Mistry, MIT Media Lab, USA

• Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland

• Guillaume Moreau, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

• Guillaume Millet, Laboratoire de Physiologie de l'Exercice de Saint-Etienne, France

• Jacques Lefaucheux, JLX3D, France

• Christian Jensen, Technical University of Denmark

• Jean-Louis Vercher, CNRS et Université de la Méditerranée, France

• Steve Marsh, National Research Council Canada

• Didier Seyfried, INSEP, France

• Hideo Saito, Keio University, Japan

• Narayanan Srinivasan, University of Allahabad, India

• Qunsheng Peng, Zhejiang University, China

• Karla Felix Navarro, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

• Brian Caulfield, University College Dublin, Ireland

• Masahiko Inami, Keio University, Japan

• Ed Boyden, MIT Media Lab, USA

• Bruce Thomas, University of South Australia

• Franck Multon, Université de Rennes 2, France

• Yanjun Zuo, University of North Dakota, USA

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