ODISI

About the workshop

As interactive technology increasingly shifts towards more seamless and natural user experiences, there is a growing need for adaptive and responsive interactions that can intuitively react to user behavior and environmental changes. Embedded AI, which enables real-time, on-device processing, plays a crucial role in achieving this by reducing latency, enhancing privacy, and ensuring continuous functionality even in offline scenarios. Meanwhile, smart textiles offer a novel and versatile input modality, allowing for richer interaction through touch, motion, and physiological sensing. The ODISI workshop explores the integration of these technologies, focusing on deploying AI models on resource-constrained devices such as microcontrollers, smartphones, and smartwatches. By combining embedded AI with smart textiles, this workshop aims to advance research in real-time adaptive interfaces, covering key topics such as AI deployment strategies, innovative sensor integration, design considerations, efficient processing pipelines, and ethical concerns. Featuring interactive presentations, hands-on tutorials, and collaborative activities, this full-day event will foster new insights and developments in AI-driven wearable and mobile interactions.

Agenda

DurationActivity
15 minWelcome and icebreaker introductions
20 minOpening keynote
60 minPresentations of papers and discussion
20 minCollaborative activity 1: brainstorm future research and paper ideas
60 minHands-on Tutorial 1: SI – smart interaction
30 minCollaborative activity 2: Develop smart interactive system concepts
60 minHands-on Tutorial 2: ODI – on-device intelligence
90 minCollaborative activity 3: Develop ODISI systems prototypes
20 minPresentation and interactive demo, discussion and feedbacks
15 minReflections and closing remarks

Tutorial 1: Smart Interactions – interfacing sensor/actuator modules with mobile and embedded controllers

Tutorial 2: on-device intelligence – training and deploying customized AI models on mobile and embedded processors

Collaboration 1: brainstorm future research and paper ideas

Collaboration 2: develop smart interactive system concepts

Collaboration 3: develop prototypes of the ODISI systems, with accumulative takeaways from both tutorials

Keynote talks TBA

Papers TBA

Call For Papers

The On-Device Intelligence for Smart Interactions Workshop aims to explore the deployment of AI models directly onto embedded processors found in devices like microcontrollers, smartphones, and smartwatches. This on-device processing facilitates real-time data handling, reduces latency, and bolsters user privacy by eliminating the need for cloud-based computations. The workshop seeks to investigate novel input modalities that can revolutionize user interactions with mobile devices.

Key topics include but not limited to:

  • Deployment Techniques:
    • Strategies for optimizing and implementing AI models on resource-constrained devices
    • AI inference on microcontrollers
    • Hardware acceleration for low-power, real-time inference on wearables and IoT devices
    • Energy-efficient AI architectures tailored for mobile and wearable devices
  • Interaction Paradigms
    • Integration of sensors in textiles for interaction (e.g. capacitive sensing)
    • Gesture and motion sensing through e-textiles and flexible electronics
    • Muscle activity, and physiological sensing (e.g. through Bio-Impedance) for wearable AI applications
    • Adaptive and context-aware textile interfaces for mobile devices
    • Tangible interaction for sensing and actuation (e.g. haptics)
  • Design Innovations:
    • User-centric design approaches for wearables and on-device AI
    • Evaluating the usability, ergonomics, and interaction quality of AI-driven smart inputs
    • Human factors and the cognitive load of wearable and textile-based interfaces
  • Efficient Pipelines:
    • Optimizing the pipeline from sensor input to AI-based predictions with a focus on latency and usability
    • Low-power, event-driven AI models for continuous sensing and real-time feedback
  • Ethical and Privacy Considerations:
    • Ethical considerations of deploying AI at the edge, including bias mitigation and fairness.
    • Privacy-preserving AI techniques for wearable applications.
    • Security risks and opportunities for on-device AI models and sensor data.
    • User trust in AI-driven feedback from wearables

Submissions should be concise, in the form of full or short papers:

  • Full papers (up to 6 pages) should report reasonably mature work within the scope of ODISI and are expected to demonstrate concrete and reproducible results.
  • Short papers (up to 3 pages) are encouraged to report novel and creative ideas that are yet to produce concrete research results but are at a stage where community feedback would be useful.

Submission Instructions

Deadline for submissions: July 21, 2025 

Notifications of acceptance: August 8, 2025

Submission Link: EasyChair

Submissions should follow the ACM Master Article Templates documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}.


Contact

For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please feel free to contact us: odisi.mhci25@gmail.com

Organizers

Bo Zhou

DFKI & RPTU

Passant Elagroudy

DFKI & RPTU

Paul Lukowicz

DFKI & RPTU

Daniel GeiรŸler

DFKI & RPTU

Mengxi Liu

DFKI & RPTU

Sizhen Bian

DFKI & RPTU

David Cuartielles

Malmo University & Arduino

Felix Dietz

UniBw & LMU

Oliver Hein

UniBw & LMU

Acknowledgement

This workshop is supported by the European Union through the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) Pathfinder Programme through the joint collaboration of two projects: STELEC and Desire4EU.