Proceedings of the 4th International on Workshop on Physical Analytics

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 4th Workshop on Physical Analytics, co-located with ACM MobiSys 2017 (WPA'17). This workshop continues a tradition of soliciting papers that describe technologies, experiments and practical applications that center on the capture and understanding of the physical behavior of individuals, groups, and crowds in the physical world. This year's WPA'17 has three sessions, covering topics ranging from analytics for mental and physical health, analytics for detection of persons and objects, to analytics using crowdsourcing and crowdsensing. In bringing together researchers, with diverse interest, from both academia and industry into this common forum, we hope to stimulate new research agendas for the research community. We are honored to have Dr. Matthai Philipose from Microsoft Research deliver a keynote to kickoff the WPA'17 program. We are also grateful to have invited talks from Prof. Tam Vu from University of Colorado Boulder, Prof. Xia Zhou from Dartmouth College, and Prof Youngki Lee from Singapore Management University.