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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Wearable Computing"”.
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Obstacles to wearable computing
In the year 2021, wearable technology could look beautiful and feel magical, but instead is exemplified by a plain wristband that looks suspiciously like a prison monitor. How can we make wearable technology that respects our privacy, enhances our daily lives, integrates with our other connected …
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Wearable computing and contextual awareness
… computational power on the user's body. These wearable machines encourage new applications that were formerly infeasible and, correspondingly, will result in new usage patterns. This thesis suggests that the fundamental improvement offered by wearable computing is an increased sense of user …
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The memory glasses : wearable computing for just-in-time memory support
This thesis documents a body of wearable computing research surrounding the development of the Memory Glasses, a new type of proactive memory support technology. The Memory Glasses combines features of existing memory support technologies (such as PDAs) with a context aware delivery system and a …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Augmented Reality and Wearable Computing for a Manufacturing Assembly Task
… reality (AR) displays, generated with a wearable computer, could be used for aiding an operator performing a manufacturing assembly task. The research concentrated on comparing two technologies for generating augmented reality displays (opaque vs. see-through), with two current types of …
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Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing Solutions for Enhancing Motor Rehabilitation of the Upper Extremity Post-Stroke
… investigations which explore the utility of wearable, ambient and ubiquitous computing solutions for the development of potentially transformative healthcare technology. Towards this goal, multiple different avenues of the rehabilitation process are explored, tackling the full chain of …
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subTextile : a construction kit for computationally enabled textiles
… and exploration, creating the fields of wearable computing and electronic textiles. While wearable computing and electronic textiles seem superficially connected as fields of investigation, in fact they are currently widely separated. However, as the field of electronic textiles grows and …
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A body area network for wearable health monitoring : conductive fabric garment utilizing DC-power-line carrier communication
Wearable computing applications are becoming increasingly present in our lives. Of the many wearable computing applications, wearable health monitoring may have the most potential to make a lasting positive impact. The ability to remotely monitor physiological signals such as respiration, motion, …
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Flycatcher : fusion of gaze with hierarchical image segmentation for robust object detection
… in the context of object segmentation for wearable photography. The prototype includes a wearable eye tracking device that captures real-time eyetraces of a user, and a wearable video camera that captures first-person perspective images of the user's visual environment. The system combines …
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A Quaternion-Based Motion Tracking and Gesture Recognition System Using Wireless Inertial Sensors
… and comes at a time when virtual reality and wearable computing are emerging in the marketplace.
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MediaJacket : an integrated clothing based personal communications system
… the opportunity for the next generation of wearable computing. This thesis presents a preliminary attempt to develop a wearable, multi-purpose, extensible, IP device that uses flexible fabric based circuitry for its user interface. It integrates a suite of advanced communications devices …
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Activity Recognition Processing in a Self-Contained Wearable System
… provide an effective platform to contain wearable computing elements, especially components geared towards the application of activity recognition. An activity recogni tion system built into a wearable textile substrate can be utilized in a variety of areas including health monitoring, …
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Automatically Locating Sensor Position on an E-textile Garment Via Pattern Recognition
Electronic textiles are a sound platform for wearable computing. Many applications have been devised that use sensors placed on these textiles for fields such as medical monitoring and military use or for display purposes. Most of these applications require that the sensors have known locations for …
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Sociometric badges : wearable technology for measuring human behavior
… the design, implementation and deployment of a wearable computing research platform for measuring and analyzing human behavior in a variety of settings and applications. We propose the use of wearable sociometric badges capable of automatically measuring the amount of face-to-face interaction, …
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Estimation of ground reaction force and zero moment point on a powered ankle-foot prosthesis
… instrumented prostheses were monitored with a wearable computing system designed to serve as a portable control unit for the active prototype and as an ambulatory gait analysis tool.
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Harnessing Intelligent Audio-Gesture Interfaces For Wearables As A Sleep Aid
… global population. The mainstream adoption of wearable computing presents a unique opportunity to study and aid sleep at an individual level. Here we introduce Zzzonic, a smart sleep-aid application designed for smartwatches that leverages cognitive psychology and human-computerinteraction …
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Design of a Wearable Two-Dimensional Joystick as a Muscle-Machine Interface Using Mechanomyographic Signals
… like Virginia Tech's Linux Laptop Orchestra. Wearable computing has shown promising results in increasing portability as well as enhancing proprioceptive perception of the wearers' body. In this thesis, we present the proof-of-concept for designing a novel muscle-machine interface for …
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Acceleration-Based Gesture Recognition for Conducting with Hidden Markov Models
… between conductor and orchestra. The eWatch, a wearable computing and sensing platform, is selected as input device. It is worn like a regular wrist watch and transmits acceleration data via Bluetooth to the host computer. Hidden Markov models are chosen to perform the gesture recognition task. …
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comMotion : a context-aware communication system
… communication system for a mobile or wearable computing platform. A behaviour-learning agent automatically learns the salient locations in the user's life. Once these places have been determined, location specific to-do lists, electronic Post-it notes or reminders, and subscription …
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Printed inorganic transistors
… and electronic paper, personal fabrication, wearable computing, and disposable medical diagnostics. This dissertation focuses on the development of printable materials, specifically inorganic semiconductor inks. At the outset of this research, organic semiconductors were the only materials …
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