Over the past decade, progress in Portable Information Devices (PIDs) has revolutionized telecommunications, information engineering, and entertainment systems, and become an essential part of everyday life and business. PIDs make possible vastly enhanced lifestyles – from basics such as reading, note taking, or listening to music, to crunching numbers, watching videos, and following news and sports events while on the go. Today′s PIDs include cellular phones, personal digital assistants, medical devices, intelligent clothing, and iPODs. Some devices provide built–in organizers for shopping lists, scheduling and appointments, phone numbers, address books, customer contacts, even games and video display. Both hardware and software are equally important in the design, use and reliability of these devices, which should be easy to handle and operate, and last a long time.<br>IEEE PORTABLE 2007 will bring together communications, electrical, industrial, manufacturing, materials, mechanical, optical, and reliability engineers and business leaders involved in various types of PIDs, to address and discuss state–of–the–art challenges, attributes and pitfalls in PID–related areas of engineering and applied science, with an emphasis on the interaction of the hardware and software, as well as their functional and physical (mechanical) performance, reliability and durability.<br><b>Keywords:</b> Topics:<br>Cell Phones (including ″Smart″ Cell Phones) • Medical Devices • Intelligent Clothing • Portable Digital Assistants (PDAs) • Portable Musical Devices (e.g. MP3 Players) • Portable Video Devices • Portable Multimedia Devices • Global Positioning Systems (GPS) • Hand–held (″Wearable″) Computers (HHC) • Multi–function entertainment and communications terminals<br>Technologies:<br>New and emerging PID Technologies • Wireless Technologies (Antennas, RF Circuits, Signal Processing, Security) • Microwave Technologies • Input/Output (User Interfaces, Displays) • Distributed Networking (peer–to–peer, wireline–wireless) • Battery/Power (microfuel cells, others) • Sensors<br>Directions:<br>PID Packaging • Functional (Electrical, Optical), Physical (Mechanical) and Thermal Design • Manufacturing • Materials (with an emphasis on Nano– and Polymeric Materials) • Reliability and Performance in Harsh Environments • Shock Protection; Power Generation, Supply and Conversion · Advanced Experimental Techniques and Testing • Predictive Modeling.<br>Other areas include:<br>Voice and Image Recognition and Processing • Audio and Video Processing · Bio–Medical Applications • Nanotechnology Applications • Economics and Business Related Problems • Homeland Security–Related Issues • Impact on Society and other Social Areas • Home Entertainment Systems and Networks.<br>
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