Intervention timing
When should a wearable agent step in, stay quiet, or wait for the user's attention?
WearAgent 2026
The 1st International Workshop on Interactive AI for Personal Wearable Agents
Exploring wearable agents that bridge continuous sensing, foundation model reasoning, and proactive human-agent interaction.
Conference
UbiComp/ISWC 2026
Time
Oct 11-12, 2026
Venue
Shanghai, China
Wearable agents are becoming the next interface between bodies, context, and intelligence.
WearAgent 2026 focuses on a shift from passive activity recognition to proactive, agentic assistance, connecting continuous wearable sensor streams with the reasoning capabilities of LLMs and multimodal foundation models.
Situated agency
How can an agent act in real time on a real body under physical, computational, and attentional constraints?
Human-agent boundary
Where should the boundary sit between human agency, confirmation, autonomy, and proactive assistance?
Affiliated Institutions
Call for Papers
We invite contributions that define the next generation of personal wearable agents.
Topics of Interest
- Sensor-in-the-loop agents: architectures for grounding LLMs and foundation models in continuous IMU, audio, vision, and physiological sensor data.
- Proactive interaction design: non-intrusive, context-aware nudges, audio interfaces, and micro-interactions for screenless or limited-attention wearable form factors.
- On-device reasoning: efficient, low-latency agentic reasoning with small language models, edge AI, and resource-constrained wearables.
- Activity and context understanding: moving beyond HAR toward semantic understanding of user intent, cognitive load, and emotional state.
- Human-agent collaboration: studies on user trust, agency, reliance, interruptibility, and the social comfort of always-on wearable assistants.
- Privacy and ethics: privacy-preserving egocentric sensing, consent, bystander privacy, and ethical continuous personal data processing.
- Systems and prototypes: hardware and software platforms for smart glasses, hearables, smart clothing, and other agentic wearable interfaces.
Organizing committee
A cross-disciplinary team spanning wearable computing, ubiquitous sensing, HCI, mobile systems, and agentic AI.
Zhanpeng Jin
South China University of Technology
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Yang Gao
South China University of Technology
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Uichin Lee
KAIST
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Sicong Liu
Northwestern Polytechnical University
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Dong Ma
University of Cambridge
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Junyi Zhu
University of Michigan
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Qian Zhang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Jagmohan Chauhan
University College London
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Huatao Xu
ByteDance
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Important dates and a half-day program designed around interaction, debate, and community building.
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Jun 25
Submission deadline
June 25, 2026, 23:59 AOE.
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Jul 15
Notification of acceptance
July 15, 2026, 23:59 AOE.
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Jul 30
Camera-ready deadline
July 30, 2026, 23:59 AOE.
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Oct 11/12
Workshop date
October 11/12, 2026, during UbiComp/ISWC 2026 in Shanghai.
All deadlines are 23:59 AOE.
09:00-09:10
Opening Remarks
Welcome, workshop goals, and framing of the three core research shifts.
09:10-09:40
Keynote
Invited speaker: Prof. Fan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, confirmation pending.
09:40-10:20
Lightning Talks
Five-minute presentations of accepted papers.
10:20-11:20
Interactive Activity
Agent Envisioning: groups design proactive wearable-agent interaction scenarios.
11:20-12:20
Debate Panel
Proactive vs. Reactive: agency, interruptibility, and the boundaries of always-on sensing.
12:20-12:30
Closing Remarks
Synthesis, awards, and next steps for community building.