UbiComp / ISWC 2027 — ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
by ACM SIGCHI
Ubiquitous, pervasive and wearable computing — Seoul Dragon City, October 2027.
About This Event
UbiComp / ISWC 2027 runs 3–7 October 2027 at Seoul Dragon City in Seoul, South Korea, jointly hosting the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. SIGCHI describes it as "a premier interdisciplinary venue in which leading international researchers, designers, developers, and practitioners in the field present and discuss novel results in all aspects of ubiquitous, pervasive and wearable computing". The joint programme is the main outlet for sensing, on-device machine learning, activity recognition and wearable health research, and its paper track is fed through the quarterly journal Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) rather than a single annual camera-ready deadline. The 2027 edition returns the conference to East Asia after Shanghai in 2026.
At a Glance
- Date
- October 3–7, 2027
- Location
- Seoul Dragon City, South Korea
- Format
- In-Person
- Event Type
- Conference
- Status
- Upcoming
- Pricing
- Paid
- Organizer
- ACM SIGCHI
- Added
- Sep 7, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 7, 2026
Topics & Focus Areas
Who Should Attend
- ✓Wearable and IoT product leaders
- ✓Edge AI engineers
- ✓Digital health product managers
- ✓Embedded systems architects
- ✓HCI and sensing researchers
- ✓Industrial IoT strategists
Why Attend
Anyone shipping sensors, wearables or edge inference is betting on assumptions about battery life, privacy and what a model can reliably infer from noisy signals — and UbiComp/ISWC is where those assumptions get tested in public. For a VP of engineering or a head of IoT, the payoff is a week with the researchers behind activity recognition, on-device learning and wearable health sensing, held in Seoul beside the display, battery and sensor supply chain these products run on. It is also the fastest read available on what will be technically possible on next-generation hardware.
Event Features
- ✓Joint programme of UbiComp (pervasive and ubiquitous computing) and ISWC (wearable computers)
- ✓IMWUT journal-track papers presented at the conference
- ✓ISWC Notes and Briefs track for shorter wearable-computing contributions
- ✓Five-day programme, 3–7 October 2027, at Seoul Dragon City
- ✓Coverage of all aspects of ubiquitous, pervasive and wearable computing, from sensing hardware through to deployed applications
What Makes This Unique
- ★Two established ACM conferences run as a single programme — UbiComp for pervasive and ubiquitous computing, ISWC for wearable computers — so sensing hardware and the software layered on it are discussed in the same room.
- ★SIGCHI calls it "a premier interdisciplinary venue" spanning researchers, designers, developers and practitioners, rather than an academics-only conference.
- ★Papers arrive through the IMWUT journal cycle rather than one annual deadline, which keeps the presented work closer to current research than a yearly camera-ready date allows.
- ★Held at Seoul Dragon City, next to the display, battery and sensor supply chain that most wearable and IoT products actually depend on.
Industries Represented
Pricing Details
No registration pricing has been published for the 2027 edition as of September 2026. UbiComp/ISWC is a paid ACM conference; the Seoul edition's rates and registration portal had not been posted when this entry was compiled, and the conference site currently carries the host city, venue and dates only.
Organizer
ACM SIGCHI
sigchi.org/Frequently Asked
- When is UbiComp / ISWC 2027?
- UbiComp / ISWC 2027 takes place October 3–7, 2027 in Seoul, South Korea.
- Where is UbiComp / ISWC 2027 held?
- UbiComp / ISWC 2027 is held in Seoul, South Korea. The event format is in-person.
- How much does UbiComp / ISWC 2027 cost?
- UbiComp / ISWC 2027 is paid. No registration pricing has been published for the 2027 edition as of September 2026. UbiComp/ISWC is a paid ACM conference; the Seoul edition's rates and registration portal had not been posted when this entry was compiled, and the conference site currently carries the host city, venue and dates only.
- Who should attend UbiComp / ISWC 2027?
- UbiComp / ISWC 2027 is aimed at Wearable and IoT product leaders, Edge AI engineers, Digital health product managers, Embedded systems architects, HCI and sensing researchers, Industrial IoT strategists.
- What topics does UbiComp / ISWC 2027 cover?
- UbiComp / ISWC 2027 covers Ubiquitous computing, Pervasive computing, Wearable computing, Sensing and activity recognition, On-device machine learning, Digital health, Internet of Things, Human-computer interaction.
Sources
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