UbiComp / ISWC 2026
Awards
IMWUT Distinguished Paper Awards
Ethical Disengagement in Mobile Games: The Effects of Loading Delay and Grayscale on User Engagement
RadioGami: Batteryless, Long-range Wireless Paper Sensors Using Tunnel Diodes
My Pillow Knows My Sleep: Sleep Monitoring with Computational Fabrics in the Pillowcase
Acoustoscillogram: Unlocking Arterial Health Insights via Acoustic Sensing with Low-cost Wired Earphones
AudioCast: Enabling Ubiquitous Connectivity for Embedded Systems through Audio-broadcasting Low-power Tags
S2Pair: Secure and Simple Device Pairing Using Human Bone as a Key Generator
Digital Olfaction System Driven by Terahertz Sensing
OpenEarable 2.0: Open-Source Earphone Platform for Physiological Ear Sensing
UbiComp 10-Year Impact Award
Winner
Human respiration detection with commodity WiFi devices: do user location and body orientation matter?
Runner Up
CrossCheck: toward passive sensing and detection of mental health changes in people with schizophrenia
Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award
Winner
Changshuo Hu
Honourable Mentions
Taiting Lu
Sejal Bhalla
Xiyuxing Zhang
Best Poster Award
Winners
PainScape: Embodied Visual Expression and Semantic Translation System for Menstrual Pain
EventGaze: Low-Power Neuromorphic Eye Tracking for Event-Based Gaze Interaction
Runners-Up
EventGaze: Low-Power Neuromorphic Eye Tracking for Event-Based Gaze Interaction
BlinkArt: Using Change Blindness For AI-Generated Image Modifications in Artworks
Enhancing Object Retrieval via Phase-Aware 3D Spatial Guidance for Blind and Low-Vision Users
Best Demo Award
EarStreAM: A Closed-Loop Earable System for Personalized Stress-Adaptive Meditation
MightyMouth: Engaging Children with ASD in Oral Motor Training through Game-Based Multimodal Interaction
FacePhys Human Sensing Foundation Model
Student Challenge Award
Best Student Challenge Award
QueryablemmWave Sensing: Moving Beyond Predefined Activities toward Interactive Behavior Understanding
Most Creative Student Challenge Award
UAgentOS-GCC: A Microkernel Agent Harness for Grounded Physical Capabilities
Poisoning the Hearth: Indirect Prompt Injection Against Edge LLM Smart-Home Agents and a Provenance-Aware Defense
People's Choice Student Challenge Award
Poisoning the Hearth: Indirect Prompt Injection Against Edge LLM Smart-Home Agents and a Provenance-Aware Defense
BiteFlow: Integrating Bite Detection into Every Second
Sonju: A Context-Aware Teachable Agent for Eliciting Older Adults' Situated Knowledge
Best Video Teaser Award
Towards Wearable Opportunistic Crowdsensing for Open-Vocabulary Activity Data Collection Through User-Scheduled Trigger-Action Routines
WeeCare: Towards Handheld Bladder Fullness Sensing with a Conformable Pad
Towards On-Device Evidence Gathering for Intimate Partner Infiltration: A Feasibility Study for Joint Identity-Action Detection
ISWC Best Notes and Briefs
Winner
Finger-to-Ear ECG: Systematic Evaluation of an Earbud-Based Cardiac Monitoring Approach
Honorable Mentions
Living Inside the Black Box: Behavioral Probing and Adaptation in Mandatory Wearable Sensing
Characterizing the Performance Gap in Human Activity Recognition for Older Adults
Design Exhibition Awards
Best in Functionality
BodyNETs: Wearable Sensor Networks for Multi-modal Interaction and Immersion
Best in Aesthetic
Catlike: Soft Pneumatic Wearables on the Voluntary Spectrum of Bodily Signals
Best in Sustainability
Becoming Ivy: Reorienting Urban Perception Through Ivy-Inspired Wearable Sensing
ISWC Test of Time Award
10-Year Impact Award
DuoSkin: rapidly prototyping on-skin user interfaces using skin-friendly materials
20-Year Impact Award
A Construction Kit for Electronic Textiles