Oliver Amft Events

Oliver Amft

Special talks, tutorials, and workshops

Daily activity and routine inference for personal assistance. Invited talk at WETICE 2009 conference, SHII session, June 30, 2009.

Estimating exercise execution quality from garment integrated sensors. Congress contribution presented at the 5th World Congress of the WFNR, Brasilia, Brazil, September 26, 2008. [Abstract]

Smart assistance for personal healthcare. Invited talk at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering, FHNW, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland, September 4-5, 2008.

Activity-awareness for smart personal assistants. Invited talk at University of Groningen, The Netherlands, May 29, 2008.

Workshop on Coaching and Behavioural Change: Methods and Systems, at Pervasive Health Conference 2008, Tampere, Finland, January 31, 2008.
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Automatic Dietary Monitoring using on-body sensors. Invited talk at European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living Systems, Darmstadt, Germany, November 10, 2007.

Automatic Dietary Monitoring using on-body sensors. Invited talk at University of California, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, Santa Cruz, November 5, 2007.

eNutrition2007: Workshop on Nutrition Monitoring and Public Health co-located with Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria, September 15, 2007.
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Hands-on Activity Context Recognition. Tutorial together with David Bannach and Paul Lukowicz at ISWC2006: International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Montreux, Switzerland, October 14, 2006.
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Pervasive Healthcare. Tutorial given together with Paul Lukowicz at BSN2006: International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, MIT, Boston, USA, April 1, 2006. [Abstract]

Medical Applications of Wearable Computing. Talk given at University of Applied Sciences Northwest Switzerland (FHNW), Lunch seminar, Olten, Switzerland, May, 2006.

Detection of nutrition phases and the eating micro-structure using wearable sensors. Invited talk given at pHealth2006: International workshop on wearable micro- and nanosystems for personalised Health, Lucerne, Switzerland, January 31, 2006. [Abstract]

How Wearable Computing can fight Cardio-vascular diseases. Talk given at Centre for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, August 11, 2005.

Applied Wearable Computing to fight Cardio-vascular diseases. Invited talk given at The University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT), Hall, Austria, November 23, 2004.

Events, media & press coverage

Automatic Dietary Monitoring - Assistive Technology for Eating Well. News article in TU Eindhoven magazine Connecthor, June 2009.

Received the European Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN) Ph.D. award for my thesis on Automatic dietary monitoring using on-body sensors from the EWSN/Conet consortium, February 12, 2009. [Award page]

Food recognition demonstrator. Permanent exhibition at the renowned Museum Alimentarium, Vevey, Switzerland. The museum will open in March 2009.

QBIC Activity Tracker. Exhibition at ISWC2007: International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Boston, USA, October 11-13, 2007.

Textile Sensing for Rehabilitation Support. TV broadcast by NECN Boston News, Boston, USA, October 13, 2007. Coverage:

QBIC Version 2.0. Exhibition at ISWC2006: International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Montreux, Switzerland, October 11-14, 2006.

Medizinische Anwendungen im Wearable Computing. [Medical applications of Wearable Computing] Austrian TV broadcast: ORF Newton, September 3, 2006. [Link]

Tragbarer Kontrolleur entlarvt Esssünder. [Wearable monitor detects eating sinners] Swiss Sunday newspaper: SonntagsZeitung, February 19, 2006, page 77. Comments

Esssensoren: Elektroniker der ETH Zürich erfassen Essgewohnheiten mit neuartiger Sensortechnik. Swiss TV broadcast: SF1, MTW series, December 15, 2005.

QBIC in action. Exhibition at ISWC2005: International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Osaka, Japan, October 18-21, 2005.

ETH 150 years anniversary demonstration. Exhibition at Zurich main station, Switzerland, 2005. [Link]

last change: 2009-09-24