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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"Wearables"”.
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Intelligent wearables
… shift to ubiquity prompted the development of wearables to offer immediate, intelligent, informative support to users according their needs in various scenarios and circumstances. The system discussed here, is envisaged to be deployed in a tourism environment as a personalised suggestion …
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Responsive wearables for rheumatoid arthritis
… braces, splints, and compressive gloves. These wearables are used to minimize swelling in affected joints, lessen ulnar deviating forces, and reduce pain. However, many people are unwilling to wear these devices because they can be quite obtrusive and hinder patients' lifestyles. Most wearables …
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Addressing gaps in equity through wearables
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Abandoned chip: Investigating abandonment of commercial wearables
… data provided insight on who might adopt newer wearables, who could benefit, and how to design a better onboarding user experience. Recommendations for better use of wearable technology to address physical inactivity and obesity, as well as suggestions to support literacies are presented that …
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Design-in-Motion: Choreosonic Wearables in Performance
Design-in-Motion: Choreosonic Wearables in Performance entitles a PhD thesis, undertaken at the London College of Fashion, consisting of practice-based research in design and performance. The project interrogates the choreographic space of real-time interactive dance performance through …
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Far touch: integrating visual and haptic perceptual processing on wearables
The evolution of electronic computers seems to have now reached the ubiquitous realm of wearable computing. Although a vast gamut of systems has been proposed so far, we believe most systems lack proper feedback for the user. In this dissertation, we not only contribute to solving the feedback …
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Accessible Gaming Wearables: Opportunities for Players with Upper Limb Motor Disabilities
There has been increased interest in how wearables can offer new avenues of interaction in video games. However, understanding how wearable devices can support accessible gaming is missing. My research aims to explore this potential with users with upper limb motor disabilities to understand their …
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Harnessing Intelligent Audio-Gesture Interfaces For Wearables As A Sleep Aid
Insomnia—difficulty in initiating and maintaining sleep—affects a significant portion of the 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 …
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Exploring the Use of Wearables to Enable Indoor Navigation for Blind Users
One of the challenges that people with visual impairments (VI) have to have to confront daily, is navigating independently through foreign or unfamiliar spaces.Navigating through unfamiliar spaces without assistance is very time consuming and leads to lower mobility. Especially in the case of …
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Wearables as witness : sensing and categorizing violent forces in a wearable system
The societal problem of physical abuse persists in part because of isolation and concealment. Emerging technologies have been adapted by abusers for methods of control and by victims for methods of resistance. This project examines the intimate position wearable technologies have with our bodies …
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Exploring the Use of Wearables to develop Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired People
This thesis explores the usage of two prominent wearable devices to develop assistive technology for users who are visually impaired. Specifically, the work in this thesis aims at improving the quality of life of users who are visually impaired by improving their mobility and ability to socially …
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Rethinking jewellery for Korea: a practice-led approach to creating high-visibility wearables
… thesis introduces the idea of high-visibility wearables as a new way of thinking about craft (jewellery in particular) in Korea. This new idea is challenging for many people in Korea, because jewellery is still narrowly understood there either as that which has financial value or as an …
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Next generation near infrared (NIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) wearables for breast cancer imaging
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is a common breast cancer treatment that involves administering chemotherapy for 3-6 months prior to surgery. This treatment enables more breast-conserving surgeries and even allows for the omission of surgery in some cases. However, about 31% of patients receiving …
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Predicting Changes in Individual Wellbeing Scores: Mixed Effects Models using Sleep Data from Wearables
… in wellbeing and inform the development of wearables that monitor sleep patterns.
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Designing Wearables for Climbing: Integrating the Practice and the Experience Perspectives of Outdoor Adventure Sports
… devices for sport. To date, the design of wearables for sport has focused on the measurable aspects of performance such as speed, heartbeat and calories burnt. Such design is driven by the possibilities offered by the miniaturisation of components and the trend to have a healthy lifestyle. …
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Valoración de dispositivos wearables en servicios de emergencias sanitarias mediante simulación clínica de alta fidelidad.
… Dentro del ámbito tecnológico, los dispositivos wearables, quizás han experimentado uno de los saltos cuantitativos más importantes a los que hemos asistido en los últimos años. En 2014 se presentó por parte de la compañía Google Inc. un nuevo dispositivo wearable consistente en unas gafas de …
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Smart Bras: Developing an Experience-Centred Bra Wearables Design Process with and for Mature Women
… for bras with “smart” capabilities, termed Bra Wearables (BW) — a subsection of smart bras with electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties. With the 2005 commercialisation and subsequent decline of Sports Bra Wearables (SBW), questions arose as to why this innovative niche failed. This …
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On-device Classification of Human-induced Non-Line-of-Sight on Chest-Worn Ultra-wideband Wearables
… Particularly, approaches suitable for low-power wearables are often under-evaluated, leaving a considerable gap between the demands of real-world deployments and current research outcomes. The overarching goal of this thesis is to enhance the robustness of human-centric UWB positioning systems, …
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Phenomenological costume-making: an embodied approach to movement and materiality in the making of performance wearables
This practice-led research examines the creative agency of costume through a phenomenological framework that defines the relationship between the designer’s body and materials within processes devised through this PhD. While scholarship on costume materiality and creative practice is gaining …
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