The First International Workshop on Maintenance-Free Context Sensing
(MFSens)
January 8th, Nara, Japan, 2021
https://sites.google.com/view/mfsens/

The recent advent of context sensing has enabled many applications
including healthcare, elderly safety, smart home, and smart buildings.
Sophisticated work has been done by using devices like IoT sensors,
smartphones, and wearables. On the other hand, these approaches require
high installation and maintenance cost, which is one of the bars to the
popularization of context sensing in some real-life applications. This
has brought the need of further exploration of maintenance-free context
sensing. Specifically, we need to investigate device-free context
recognition and sustainable sensing systems with energy harvesting
combined with low-power operations. To this goal, MFSens workshop
provides a forum for researchers to exchange new research ideas, present
their progress, and identify future directions in the field of
maintenance-free context sensing.

This workshop solicits submissions from all areas relating to
maintenance-free sensing as well as corresponding applications. Topics
of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Device-free context recognition
- Low-power context recognition
- Wi-Fi CSI sensing
- Wireless sensing
- Backscatter
- Energy harvesting
- Energy neutral sensing
- Infrastructure-based sensing
- Low power sensing systems
- Sustainable sensing systems

The accepted workshop papers will be published along with the main
conference papers as part of the ACM International Conference
Proceedings Series (ICPS) and will be indexed by the ACM Digital Library.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Due: September 22, 2020
Author Notification: October 10, 2020
Camera-ready Due: October 20, 2020
Conference Date: January 8, 2021

* Workshop Organizers:
Akira Uchiyama, Osaka University, Japan
Shigemi Ishida, Kyushu University, Japan