Extended Program

Conference Program

09:30 – 10:00

Registration

10:00 – 13:00

Tutorial on “Wearable systems for physiological monitoring: the impact in clinical, occupational, and daily-life settings”

Organizers: Emiliano Schena (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, IT), Carlo Massaroni (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, IT)
Chairs: Christian Tamantini, Francesca Fracasso

Tutorial Aims: The tutorial will provide fundamental guidelines for the design and assessment of wearable systems for physiological monitoring, integrating complementary expertise from different fields. The focus will be on the relevance of key physiological parameters in diverse scenarios, including clinical settings, healthy and active aging, rehabilitation, and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Particular emphasis will be placed on the scientific and technological challenges that can foster the effective translation of wearable technologies into real-world applications, such as clinical trials, occupational environments, and daily life.

Tutorial Program: The tutorial will include both lectures and practical sessions designed to provide a comprehensive overview of wearable systems for physiological monitoring. The lecture session (10:00 – 11:00) will cover the fundamentals of wearable sensors, including their design, assessment, and applications in cardiorespiratory and motion monitoring, with contributions from:
Emiliano Schena — Technological challenges and applications
Carlo Massaroni — Cardiovascular monitoring: solutions and applications
Daniela Lo Presti — Respiratory monitoring: solutions and applications

The practical session (11:00 – 13:00) will focus on the main algorithms used to process raw data acquired from wearables and to extract physiological parameters relevant to clinical practice, occupational, and everyday-life contexts. This session will be conducted by:
Chiara Romano & Arianna Carnevale — Algorithms for processing cardiorespiratory and joint motion data

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 17:00

Tutorial on “Safeguarding Personal Data in Socio-Health Research: A Guide to GDPR and Ethical Compliance”

Organizer: Giorgia Lodi (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of National Research Council of Italy – CNR-ISTC)
Chairs: Christian Tamantini, Francesca Fracasso

Tutorial Aims: This tutorial provides participants with the essential legal framework for handling personal data in socio-health research scenarios. It will explore GDPR principles and ethical rules to raise awareness of the importance of compliance in research. The focus will be on clarifying what constitutes personal data and special categories of data, which legal bases make data processing lawful, and which technical and organisational measures can safeguard privacy. The session will also discuss the ethical principles underpinning high-integrity socio-health research.

Tutorial Program: The tutorial will consist of a theoretical session and a practical demonstration. The first session (90 minutes) will address the theoretical foundations of data protection, focusing on GDPR requirements for processing health and social data, consent, data subject rights, and the relationship between personal data protection and ethical principles for research integrity.

The practical session (30 minutes) will illustrate how to initiate and structure a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) for high-risk research. Using a real-world example, participants will learn to identify risks and define appropriate security measures to ensure robust data safeguarding throughout the research lifecycle.

14:00 – 18:30

DANTE Workshop

DANTE Workshop venue
18:30 – 21:00

Welcome Reception

The Apartment Bar