Instructions for Oral and Poster presentations

Oral Presentations

• Oral sessions are typically 90-minute live sessions moderated by a chairperson. Remote/ video presentations are not permitted. 
• We kindly ask you to arrive at the lecture hall well in advance (at least 15 minutes before the session starts), confirm that you are in the correct room, introduce yourself to the session chair, and take a seat in the first row. 
• Presenters have a maximum of 6 minutes for presentation and 1 minute for questions and answers.There are conference staff showing you the remaining time and they will inform you once you should give conclusions. There is no possibility of extending your presentation time.  
• Please find attached the presentation template, which follows the structure of Springer conference papers (Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion). Kindly use this template and structure, as it facilitatesadherence to the session schedule. It is not allowed to add more slides to the slideset. 
• To avoid technical issues, all presentations within the same session will be compiled into a single file. Therefore, please submit your presentation in advance by June 1st to ncdhws2026@gmail.com.
• Please practice your presentation before aloud so you can see the realistic time it takes to talk through your presentation.   

We are looking forward to hearing your presentation at NCDHWS2026-conference! 

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Poster Presentations

Setup: 

• Posters must be printed on paper or fabric and mounted on the poster stands provided in the conference hall (digital posters are not accepted). 
• The poster stands accommodate posters up to A0 size. 
• Please place your poster on the stand corresponding to your assigned poster number (refer to the numbered poster list at the end of this document). 
• Ensure that your poster is set up before the first coffee break on the morning of June 16th. 

During the conference: 

• Coffee breaks: Conference participants are adviced to visit posters during the coffee breaks Poster presenters are recommended to be available during coffee breaks to discuss their work.  
• Poster Tour: A poster tour will be organized during the afternoon coffee break on the 16th June. All poster presenters must be available to be present at their posters during this time. 
• Individual poster presentations are not scheduled; interaction is encouraged informally during the breaks. 
• The session chair will remind attendees to visit the poster area at the end of each session. 
• Engage with visitors, answer questions, and enjoy the discussions. 
• Best poster voting will be organized.

We are looking forward to hearing your poster presentation at NCDHWS2026-conference! 

Posters 

1. From Guideline to Gameplay: A Pilot Study on AI Simulation in Medical Training; Maija Paukkunen; Elina Rintamäki; Kari Sinivuori; Eveliina Heikkala; Juhani Määttä; Jaro Karppinen
2. Impact of XR-Based Training on Radiation Knowledge and Workflow Performance in Healthcare ProfessionalsMarjaJaronen; Karoliina Paalimäki-Paakki; Adam Graham; Niko Männikkö; Tanja Schroderus-Salo; Tuulikki Keskitalo; Milla Immonen; Kristina Mikkonen
3. Industry-Driven Project-Based Learning in Digital Health Education; Raquel Simões de Almeida; Vítor Simões-Silva; Maria João Trigueiro
4. Low-Cost Platform for Self-Measured Balance in Seniors, Thomas Jensen; Pauli Mikkonen
5. A User-Centred mHealth Approach to Remote Routine Management and Mental Health Promotion in Higher Education; Vítor Simões-Silva; Maria João Trigueiro; Raquel Simões de Almeida
6. Use of a Gamified Tool for the Promotion of Physical Activity and the Reduction of Obesity in Young Adults Maria João Trigueiro; Guilherme R Pinto; José M Nunes; Raquel Simões de Almeida; Vítor Simões-Silva
7. A Phenomenographic Research of Physiotherapy Teachers’ Perceptions of Digitalization Hilkka Korpi; Mari Harjunen; Tuulikki Sjögren
8. Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Clinical Decision Support in Nursing: A Qualitative Descriptive Study; Petra Suonnansalo; Henna Härkönen; Mika Alastalo; Zhou Wentao; Miia Jansson
9. Self-Adaptive AI in Clinical Decision Support: A Systematic Review; Wendakoon Mudiyanselage Kavishwa Bhashitha; Nirnaya Tripathi
10. Artificial Intelligence for Reducing Alarm Fatigue in Hospitals: A Systematic Review, Milla Kosonen
11. A Safety-Constrained Architecture for Adaptive Clinical Decision Support; Wendakoon Mudiyanselage KavishwaBhashitha; Nirnaya Tripathi
12. Structured LLM-Generated Clinical Discharge Summaries for Nordic Healthcare Digitalization and Wireless Health Integration; Aleka Melese Ayalew; Md Rabiul Hasan; Tapio Seppänen; Mourad F Oussalah
13. MEG-QA: Medical Evidence-Grounded Question Abbreviation for Consumer Health Queries via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Knowledge Graph Constraints in Digital Health; Md Rabiul Hasan; Aleka Melese Ayalew; Mourad F Oussalah
14. Structured Multi-Extraction Prompting Improves LLM-Based Biomedical Relation Extraction Without Fine-Tuning; Frederik Marten Labonté; Suraj Giri; Claudius Herbrik; Lucie Flek
15. Robust and Imperceptible QR Code Watermarking in Medical Images Using a Hybrid DWT-DCT-SVD ApproachKhadija Dinia; Chaïmaâ Kissi; Ch. Pradeep Reddy; Tarik Boujiha
16. An Evaluation of PQC Placement in Hybrid Quantum CNN and ViT Models Khadija Amadoun; Chaïmaâ Kissi; AmlanChakrabarti; Tarik Boujiha
17. Early Detection of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants via Contrastive Siamese BiLSTM Embeddings and Temporal Outlier Persistence Adnane Touiyate; Chaïmaâ Kissi; Tarik Boujiha
18. AI-Assisted Documentation in Social Welfare Services: Insights from a Pilot Conducted in the Wellbeing Services County of North Ostrobothnia; Niko Korhonen; Jarmo Reponen; Timo Alalääkkölä; Aappo Keränen; Jaana Kokko; Roni Huhta; Joonas Haataja; Tenho Moilanen; Miika T Nieminen; Mikko Reinikka; Heikki Mikkonen
19. WoMED: Designing a Clinical Tool to Aid in Diagnosis, Assessment, and Decision-Making by Utilizing Women’s Health Data; Riikka Arffman; Marko Arffman; Janne Wäli; Elisa Hurskainen; Terhi T Piltonen
20. A Discrete Event Simulation Framework for Analysing and Optimising Emergency Medical Service Workflows; Kean Tang; Patrik Rydén
21. Predicting Length of Stay in High Throughput Hospital Units Lars Mattsson; Patrik Rydén
22. Service Demand Predictive Models in Well-Being Services Counties Qualitative Research on Project Team Members’ Experiences Helmi Virtanen
23. Multiparametric MRI Analysis in Glioma Grading: Added Value of ADC Maps; Nourhan Ibrahim; Egor Panfilov; Niina Salokorpi; Tuija Keinänen
24. Optical Wireless Power and Data Transfer to Implantable Medical Devices Under Misalignment: Experimental Insights on Energy Harvesting, Syifaul Fuada; Mariella Särestöniemi; Guanghui Ma; Marcos Katz
25. Analysis of Available Optical Power in an in-Body Optical Link at 810 nm for OWPT Across Biological Tissue; Syifaul Fuada; Mariella Särestöniemi; Marcos Katz
26. Compact Antenna Cavity and Reflector Configurations for Portable Skull Fracture Detection; Emmi Kaivanto; Daljeet Singh; Jarmo Reponen; Mariella Särestöniemi; Mikael von und zu Fraunberg; Ping Jack Soh; Teemu Samuli Myllylä
27. Ultra-Low-Power on-Demand Ultrasound-Based Device Identification for Hand Hygiene Monitoring in Healthcare Environments; Frank Russow
28. Secure Connectivity Architectures for Resilient and Privacy-Preserving Digital Health Ecosystems Himanshi Babbar; Rajeev Kumar; Teemu Myllylä; Daljeet Singh; Mariella Särestöniemi
29. A Modular Approach for Multi-Scale Whole-Brain Simulation: Integrating a Neuron-Astrocyte-Vascular Model Into the Virtual Brain; Rok Virant; Marja Leena Linne
30. Wearable-Measured Heart Rate Variability, Its Multi-Night Fluctuation and Cardiometabolic Health in Adults Anna Maijala; Vahid Farrahi; Maisa Niemelä
31. BCI Controlled Humanoid Systems: A Multimodal Perspective Sarthak Acharya; Daljeet Singh; Nampuraja Enose
32. The Human Body Twin Laboratory: A Multimodal Platform for Developing and Validating Wearable and Portable Medical Monitoring Technologies; Mariella Särestöniemi, Erkki Vihriälä, Daljeet Singh, Lukasz Surazynski, Teemu Myllylä
33. Towards Realistic Phantom-Based Evaluation of MammoWave Microwave Breast Imaging Mariella Särestöniemi; Daljeet Singh; Jarmo Reponen; Teemu Myllylä; Gianmarco Palomba; Alessandra Ronca; Navid Ghavami; Gianluigi Tiberi

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Key dates

16-17.6.2026
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