Organizers
The international team of organizers very well touches the different aspects of multimedia in personal health. Susanne Boll is an active researcher in the field of novel user interfaces using different modalities for day-to-day of in personal and professional healthcare. Jochen Meyer is driving the field in the age of driving health beyond tracking and support individuals in their understanding of their own health. Cathal Gurrin is a highly recognized researcher in lifelogging and analysis of multisensory visual and sensor-based lifelogging data. Kiyoharu Aizawa has been driving large research efforts in visual analysis for recognizing food and realizing nutrition diaries.
Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo
Prof. Dr. Kiyoharu Aizawa is Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Eng. at the University of Tokyo, in Japan. He pioneered multimedia life logging, and recently extended it for dietary assessment, the outcome of which is made available to public as FoodLog platform. He was a General co-Chair of ACM MM12 and Workshop on CEA (Cooking and Eating Activities) 2014 and 2015.
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg
Prof. Dr. Susanne Boll is Professor of Media Informatics and Multimedia Systems in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Oldenburg, in Germany. She serves on the executive board of the OFFIS–Institute for Information Technology, in Oldenburg, where she heads many national and international research projects in the field intelligent user interfaces. Over the recent years her work has an strong focus on multimodal and interactive systems personal health. Besides her activities in the SIGMM communities she has chaired PervasiveHealth.
Alexia Briasouli, Information Technologies Institute (ITI)
Dr. Alexia Briassouli is a postdoctoral research fellow at CERTH, conducting research, co-supervising PhD theses and participating in National and European research projects. Her current research includes the analysis of video for detection of unusual or interesting events, and activity recognition using statistical methods, signal processing and computer vision techniques. She is one of the editors of the Springer book “Comprehensive Health Monitoring and Personalized Feedback Using Multimedia Data” and has organized several related special sessions and workshops in conferences, such as the 1st ACM MM Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Information Retrieval for Healthcare.
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University
Dr. Cathal Gurrin is a lecturer at the School of Computing, at Dublin City University, Ireland and he is an investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics where he leads a research group of 8 lifelog researchers. He regularly speaks at Quantified Self (and various related International) events and is the author of Lifelogging: Personal Big Data, published in 2014 in the FNTIR series. He will be giving a keynote on "The Promise of Lifelogging as an Assistive Technology” at the EAI International Conference on Wearables in Healthcare 2016.
Laleh Jalali, University of California
Dr. Laleh Jalali has an education in computer science from the Iran University of Science and Technology, and also holds an MS and PhD from the University of Irvine. is currently a PhD candidate in Computer Science at University of California, Irvine working with Prof. Ramesh Jain. Her research is focused on knowledge representation, qualitative reasoning, and multimodal information processing in various applications such as healthcare and user modeling. This involves sensor data fusion, data management, event recognition, and knowledge discovery.
Jochen Meyer, OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology
Jochen Meyer is director of the R&D Division Health at the OFFIS Institute for Information Technology where he is responsible for numerous national and international research projects on pervasive health systems, ambient assisted living, e-health and others. He was co-organizer of various workshops on pervasive health systems, was local chair of PervasiveHealth’14, and is workshop chair of ICHI 2016.