IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - January/February 2022 - 4

From the Editor's Desk
What Can Consumer Technologies
Contribute to the Future Society?
Shingo Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi University
& HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022 to all the readers.
I welcome you to the first 2022 issue, the January
2022 issue, of the IEEE Consumer Electronics
Magazine (MCE).
With the year 2021 over, MCE carved a history
of 10 years. I extend my sincere congratulations
on the 10th anniversary of publication. I would
like to express mydeepest gratitude to all the contributors,
the reviewers, the editorial board members,
the Consumer Technology Society board
of governors, and you who read this now. I am
hopeful that MCE will further excel in all aspects,
including quality of articles, and broadening
author/reader base in the next 10 years as well.
At the beginning of the new 10 years, let us consider
the future society we should aim for. Not a
day passes without hearing about SDGs, carbon
neutrality, and well-being. While writing this article,
the COP26 concluded with the adoption of the
outcome document, which states that the COP26
will pursue efforts to limit the increase in global
average temperature to 1.5C, and phase down
coal-fired power generation. For this agreement,
some give certain appreciation, others express disappointment.
I recognize the difficulty of this
world-wide issue again and hope this step seems
small but a great leap to make for the future. The
future society demands multifaceted development
from not only economic prosperity and convenience
but also safety, security, and sustainability.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2021.3128784
Date ofcurrent version 6 December 2021.
What can consumer technologies contribute
to the future society? Our society has developed
and evolved by technologies, but its center must
be human. Consumer technologies have enriched
human lives. And from now, as familiar to human,
they continue to take a central role to build the
future society. I chose secure and sustainable
technologies as the cover theme for this issue. I
hope you find a clue of consumer technologies to
build the future society in this issue.
FEATURE ARTICLES
Securing Fuzzy Vault EnabledAuthentication in
Body Area Networks Based Smart Healthcare: This
article focuses on authentication service for
body area network sensors and proposes an
original scheme named Rotational Assisted
Fuzzy Vaults (RAFVs) to harden the security of
any authentication solution using the fuzzy vault
construction approach. The evaluation results
have shown that RAFV can successfully conceal
the secret of the vault even if the locking elements
are known to the adversary and may
improve upon communication overhead.
Generation ofPanoramic Images by Two Hemispherical
Cameras Independent of Installation
Location: This article proposes a method for generating
spherical images by stitching together
images from two cameras. This work is expected
to contribute to expanding the range of applications
for omnidirectional imaging.
Multi-Factor Pattern Implicit Authentication:
This article proposes an operational grid (OPGrid)
technique, which is an implicit graphical
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