WearAgent 2026: The 1st International Workshop on Interactive AI for Personal Wearable Agents

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.

WearAgent 2026

Workshop Program

DateOctober 12, 2026 LocationShanghai, China Time14:00-17:30
Opening & Paper Session I

14:00-15:07

01
  1. Opening
    Opening Remarks
  2. Invited Keynote
    Yuan He

    Tenured Professor, School of Software, Tsinghua University

  3. Paper Session I
    Wearable Agents for Health, Well-Being, and Behavior Change
    4 papers · 8 min each
Paper Session II & Tea Break

15:07-16:10

02
  1. Paper Session II
    Human-Centered Wearable Agents
    4 papers · 8 min each

    15:39-15:40 · Session transition

  2. Break
    Tea Break
Session III, Panel & Closing

16:10-17:30

03
  1. Paper Session III
    Context-Aware Wearable Agents
    6 papers · 8 min each

    16:58-17:05 · 7-minute session discussion

  2. Panel Discussion
    The Future of Wearable Agents

    Opportunities, Challenges, and Human-Centered Intelligence

  3. Award & Closing
    Best Paper Award & Closing Remarks
Conference UbiComp/ISWC 2026
Time Oct 12, 2026 · 14:00-17:30
Venue Shanghai, China

Invited keynote · 14:05–14:35

Meet the keynote speaker

A 30-minute invited keynote opens the workshop's technical conversation on intelligent, context-aware wearable systems.

Yuan He, keynote speaker 14:05–14:35
Keynote speaker

Yuan He

Tenured Professor, School of Software, Tsinghua University

Prof. Yuan He is a Tenured Full Professor at the School of Software, Tsinghua University, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Institute of Trustworthy Networks and Systems. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and a Distinguished Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF). His research focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT), wireless network, and ubiquitous computing. Prof. He actively contributes to the academic community as the Vice Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE China, a member of the steering committee of prestigious conferences like ACM SenSys and EWSN, the Acting Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on IoT, and an Editorial Board member for journals like IEEE IoT, ACM TOSN, JCST, and the Computing Magazine of CCF. He was the Program Co-chair for multiple conferences, including ACM SenSys 2024 and IEEE SECON 2022. His pioneering work has been recognized with the CCF Natural Science Award, the SenSys 2023 Test-of-Time Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards from top venues such as MobiSys and SenSys.

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WearAgent 2026 Invited Keynote

Thirty minutes of perspective-setting ideas before the three paper sessions begin.

Panel discussion · 17:05–17:25

The Future of Wearable Agents

Opportunities, Challenges, and Human-Centered Intelligence

20 min
Youngtae Noh

Youngtae Noh

Hanyang University

Junyi Zhu

Junyi Zhu

University of Michigan

Dongyao Chen

Dongyao Chen

Singapore Management University

Tingyu Cheng

Tingyu Cheng

University of Notre Dame

Zhanpeng Jin, panel moderator
Panel Moderator Zhanpeng Jin

South China University of Technology

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.

When

Intervention timing

When should a wearable agent step in, stay quiet, or wait for the user's attention?

How

Situated agency

How can an agent act in real time on a real body under physical, computational, and attentional constraints?

Who

Human-agent boundary

Where should the boundary sit between human agency, confirmation, autonomy, and proactive assistance?

Affiliated Institutions

South China University of Technology KAIST Northwestern Polytechnical University University of Cambridge University of Michigan Shanghai Jiao Tong University University College London ByteDance

Accepted Papers

Accepted contributions to the first WearAgent workshop at UbiComp/ISWC 2026.

  1. Kinesis: A Multi-Agent Wearable System for Contextualized Posture Correction

    Jiayue Ni, Jianing Yu, and Lilith Yu

  2. BrickBuddy: An Egocentric Wearable Companion Agent for Step-Situated Cultural Discovery During Procedural Assembly

    Xuejiao Ma, Ruijia Li, and Bo Jiang

  3. When Does Activity Recognition Error Change Agent Behavior? A Policy-Aware Sensor-to-Decision Interface for Wearable Agents

    Chuqi Dai, Xinyao Li, Fanbo Meng, and Zhanpeng Jin

  4. ShiftMind: Shared Workforce Memory and Agentic Analysis on Smart Glasses

    Jose Manuel Davila Mancilla, Eduardus Tjitrahardja, and Yuntao Wang

  5. StressPet: A Sensor-in-the-Loop Agent for Proactive, Just-in-Time Stress Management

    Xinyao Li, Fanbo Meng, Chuqi Dai, and Zhanpeng Jin

  6. Building Reliable LLM Coding Agents for Mobile Health Data Analysis

    Qiang Yang, Alexandra Loh, Yuwei Zhang, and Cecilia Mascolo

  7. Beyond Sensor Streams: HALO-Agent as a Body-State Representation Layer for Wearable Agents

    Wenbo Zhang, Yuan Gao, Dong Huitian, Chenxu Zhu, Chenxu Zhang, Wenkang Zhang, Yang Gao, Jagmohan Chauhan, and Zhanpeng Jin

  8. From Scene Understanding to Spatial Intention: A Personal Wearable Agent for Non-Visual Guidance

    Yirui Yuan, Chenghang Li, Shurui Zhang, and Yang Gao

  9. AutoHabits: A Close-Looped Context-Aware System for Tiny Habits on Commercial Watches and Phones

    Yingke Ding, Zeyu Wang, Hongjing Piao, Leyi Zhang, William Hu, Ziyu Tang, Wanying Mo, Yuanchun Shi, and Yuntao Wang

  10. A Mobile–Ambient Sensing System for Cross-Context Activity Understanding

    Shukai Ma and Yubin Lan

  11. RASE: Reliability-Aware Sustained Evidence for Ring-Based WearAgent Vaping Feedback

    Yi-Shan Wu, Eunhee Park, and Yincheng Jin

  12. GlassClaw: A Smart-Glasses Agent That Learns When to Help

    Wangrui Qian

  13. HandContextLLM: Task-Aware Evidence Selection for Continuous Hand-Task Understanding and Forecasting

    Chiyue Wang, Dong She, Yang Gao, and Zhanpeng Jin

  14. Edge Interactive Agent for Type 1 Diabetes Self-Management with Continuous Glucose Monitoring

    Joshua Kramer and Guangzhi Tang

Organizing committee

A cross-disciplinary team spanning wearable computing, ubiquitous sensing, HCI, mobile systems, and agentic AI.

Zhanpeng Jin

Zhanpeng Jin

South China University of Technology

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Yang Gao

Yang Gao

South China University of Technology

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Sicong Liu

Sicong Liu

Northwestern Polytechnical University

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Dong Ma

Dong Ma

University of Cambridge

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Junyi Zhu

Junyi Zhu

University of Michigan

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Qian Zhang

Qian Zhang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Jagmohan Chauhan

Jagmohan Chauhan

University College London

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