ZINC 2022 Conference Program

Digital solutions started to engulf various spheres of life, including medicine. Being that digitized medical equipment, or various wellness-related applications for end-user, serious games for rehabilitation and the application of VR in a Metaverse environment - we have it all. However, is this development sustainable? What about the safety and social implications of this technology?

In this session, we start with the latest innovation in consumer healthcare - VR/AR and Metaverse, opened by Dr. Nemanja Kovacev, an experienced digital health expert with an interesting professional background - Nemanja is a doctor of medicine with a Ph.D. and the IT expert app developer at the same time! Then, the session continues to give you most up-to-date research in the digital healthcare field, with the goal to discuss all the open aspects and worries stemming from this field.

In this session, we continue to dissect the newest research in digital consumer healthcare. This time we focus on telecare, with the great opening by our keynote speaker, Dr. Margarita Anastassova from the CEA Institute in France. Then, the session continues with the presentations and discussions with consumer healthcare researchers, pinpointing the frontiers of this field today.

In this session, we discuss the common pitfalls with new developments and solutions in safety-critical industries. Those industries are now increasingly getting digitized and starting to depend on complex hardware/software/mechanical configurations, often with centralized control by a computer. A starting panel and a series of presentations will reveal the current state of the field and provide interesting new insights.

Panelists include experts in the field from both industry and academia, including companies at the forefront of safe solutions development for automotive (TTTech Auto) as well as educators in the field (University of California San Diego).

In this session, we host a panel of distinguished speakers from both industry and academia, to discuss autonomous mobility "from within". What is required to develop autonomous mobility solutions? Which algorithms are needed? Can we rely upon those solutions in realistic environments? Can we simulate the real world so that we can perform adequate laboratory pre-verification and validation?

Institute of Physics Belgrade, SYRMIA LLC, and University of California San Diego discuss together with session presenters to answer the questions above!

In this session, we are exploring various interesting applications of signal processing and the latest research in that regard. We start by a keynote speech by Dr. Christian Bolzmacher, who will show us the science behind the usage of various surfaces to produce sound. Further, we would explore various other signal processing research and discuss it together!

Women represent the largest pool of untapped talents for manufacturing. This limited involvement is mainly due to the lack of attraction of this sector for girls and to their underrepresentation within the major disciplines opening doors to manufacturing jobs. This, in turn, stems from an atavistic vision of women's role in industry, as well as from the lack of attractive promotion of manufacturing jobs and the associated educational paths to female students. In this talk, we will present an ongoing EIT Manufacturing project trying to promote manufacturing jobs (e.g. working with machinery and robots) to young girls. It uses short learning "nuggets" developed in Virtual Reality and incorporates role models to engage, inspire and attract girls to manufacturing jobs.

In this session, we discuss the proliferating factors for the digitization of our complete world: cloud technologies and services, and Internet of Things solutions. This session is also going to be a mixture of insights from both the industry (EPAM) and academia (4 paper presentations) with the goal to uncover the following: Which technologies are the best to select today, among the myriad of choices? What are the effects such networking can present to consumers? Should we be too afraid regarding our privacy, but also our safety?

With new developments, the IoT systems continue to help users worldwide connect with their surroundings, changing the way we live, work, and communicate. IoT solutions intend to make our life easier and more enjoyable, and in this session we consider some of the newest achievements in the industry of smart sensing systems and smart home solutions, focusing on user experience.

We will start with the panel in which field experts, from both industry and academia, discuss the current state of the IoT world. The following series of presentations will then provide some interesting new solutions and results.

In this session, we explore the correlation between environmental impacts and consumer technologies, discussing both repercussions of new technologies as well as how the environment monitoring can aid the improvement of consumer technologies.

We start with a keynote speech by Dr. Nir Kshetri, who will analyze the discourses surrounding blockchains' energy consumption and discuss the actors and actions involved.

In this session, we host a panel of eminent speakers to discuss automotive systems, from multimedia systems to functional Safety. Following presentations further review the subject of Linux for Automotive, discussing the problems and challenges of such implementations and concluding with a case study that suggests a solution for managing traffic flows!

In this very interesting session we are intersecting the findings from research on driver attitudes toward autonomous driving, and also other factors which may affect the wider adoption of self-driving vehicles on our roads. What can we expect in this regard? Are we anticipating the problems and researching the possible solutions, in case the trust in the technology is diminished by accidents? We are going to assess this through a short presentation by CEA Institute (France) and then a discussion with companies in the automotive industry. Finally, a few research presentations will show us where we currently stand.