ISWC 2013-Wearables Are Here to Stay

Hot toPICS In numbers, ISWC was a tremendous success. We received 101 submissions— the largest number in the last eight years—making for a selective 23 percent acceptance rate for oral presentations. Furthermore, ISWC was colocated with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, which merged the UbiComp and Pervasive conferences. (See this issue’s Conferences department for a full report.) More than 700 people registered for UbiComp 2013 and its associated workshops—and, for the first time, the conference sold out after reaching the (very large) venue’s capacity limit. The ISWC technical program covered a rich set of topics with oral and poster presentations. Because there are too many to cover, we emphasize a few highlights along context-awareness, textiles and sensor technologies, eyewear computing, and interaction.