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CO-CHAIRS

	Vítor Carvalho Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, School of Technology - Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave & Algoritmi Research Centre, School of Engineering - University of Minho Portugal

Short Bio Vítor Carvalho is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave (UPCA), Portugal, and an integrated researcher at the Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (2Ai). He received his PhD in Industrial Electronics in 2008 and his Habilitation in Electrical Engineering in 2024. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, biomedical instrumentation, wearable and intelligent healthcare systems, signal and data processing, and serious games. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications and has coordinated and participated in several national and international R&D projects, particularly in digital health, wearable monitoring and applied AI. He served as Dean of IPCA's School of Technology from 2017 to 2025 and has participated in European Commission expert groups addressing AI, data and digital technologies.

	Filomena Soares Algoritmi Research Centre, School of Engineering - University of Minho Portugal

Short Bio Filomena O. Soares is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Industrial Electronics, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal, and a researcher at the ALGORITMI Research Centre. She holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research interests include system modelling and control, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation technologies, human–robot interaction and the application of serious games and socially assistive robotics in health and education. She has extensive experience in multidisciplinary research involving engineering, rehabilitation and human-centred technologies, as well as in the supervision of MSc and PhD students.

	José Machado MEtRICs, School of Engineering - University of Minho Portugal

Short Bio José Machado concluded Habilitation degree in February 2019 at University of Minho, Portugal. He received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering – Automation, from University of Minho, Portugal and, in simultaneous, from Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France, in 2006. He is Deputy Director of MEtRICs Research Center and Assistant Professor at Mechanical Engineering department of University of Minho. He has authored, or co-authored, more than 220 refereed journal and conference proceedings papers. He coordinates and has coordinated - and participated as collaborator - in several Research and Technology Transfer Projects on Mechatronics and Automation domains. His main interests are related with Industry 4.0, more specifically, on the design and development of Cyber-Physical Systems; design and analysis of dependable controllers for obtaining dependable mechatronic systems; and mechatronic systems design with special focus on medical or biomedical applications, wellbeing and/or rehabilitation. He is member of IEEE and member of IFAC.

	Demétrio Matos Institute for Design, Media and Culture, School of Design - Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave Portugal

Short Bio Demétrio Matos is an Assistant Professor at the School of Design of the Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave (UPCA), Portugal, and an integrated researcher at the Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture (ID+). He holds a PhD in Design and conducts research at the intersection of Product Design, Medical Devices, Wearable Technologies and Healthcare Design. His work focuses particularly on user-centred design, ergonomics, usability, wearable prostheses and the relationship between the human body and technology. He participates in national and international research projects involving healthcare technologies and contributes to the development and validation of human-centred medical and wearable systems.

SCOPE

Wearable healthcare technologies are rapidly evolving from standalone sensing devices into intelligent, connected and increasingly autonomous systems capable of supporting continuous health assessment, disease management, rehabilitation, prevention and personalised care.

Advances in wearable and body-worn sensors, embedded electronics, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), artificial intelligence and edge computing are enabling the acquisition and interpretation of physiological, behavioural and contextual information in real-world environments. These developments are creating new opportunities for digital biomarkers, remote patient monitoring, early detection of health deterioration, personalised interventions and clinical decision support.

The Special Session on Wearable HealthCare – WHC 2027 aims to bring together researchers, engineers, healthcare professionals, designers and industry practitioners working across the complete wearable healthcare technology pipeline — from sensing and device design to intelligent data processing, clinical validation and real-world deployment.

The session welcomes original research papers and abstracts, applied studies, technological demonstrations, validation studies, methodological contributions and review papers addressing the design, development, evaluation and translation of wearable healthcare technologies.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Wearable and Body-Worn Healthcare Devices
Wearable Biomedical and Physiological Sensors
Smart Textiles, Electronic Skin, Patches, Earables and Novel Wearable Form Factors
Body Sensor Networks and Body Area Networks
Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and Connected Healthcare Devices
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Wearable Healthcare
Embedded AI, Edge AI and TinyML for Biomedical Devices
Digital Biomarkers and Computational Phenotyping
Continuous and Free-Living Health Monitoring
Activity, Behaviour and Anomaly Recognition
Personalised and Context-Aware Health Monitoring
Remote Patient Monitoring and Decentralised Healthcare
Wearable Technologies for Ageing, Dementia and Neurodegenerative Conditions
Wearable Systems for Rehabilitation and Assistive Healthcare
Wearables for Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Metabolic and Neurological Monitoring
Human-Centred Design, Usability, Accessibility and User Acceptance
Energy-Efficient and Low-Power Wearable Systems
Wireless Communication and Connectivity for Wearable Medical Devices
Interoperability with Electronic Health Records and Healthcare Information Systems
Federated, Privacy-Preserving and Distributed Learning for Wearable Data
Explainable and Trustworthy AI for Wearable Healthcare
Data Quality, Uncertainty and Robustness in Wearable Sensing
Clinical Validation and Real-World Evaluation of Wearable Systems
Telehealth, Home Healthcare and Ambient Assisted Living
Wearable Technologies for Preventive and Personalised Medicine
Novel Applications and Emerging Wearable Healthcare Technologies

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: December 3, 2026
Authors Notification: December 21, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: January 8, 2027

SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Available soon.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.

PUBLICATIONS

After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library

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SECRETARIAT CONTACTS

BIOSTEC Special Sessions - WHC 2027
e-mail: biodevices.secretariat@insticc.org