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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"wearable computers"”.
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Context awareness for wearable computers
… to enhance user proficiency in everyday tasks. A wearable, context–aware computer system and a set of evaluation tasks are devised to investigate this premise. A photograph diary study is carried out to elicit defining features of a broad range of everyday activities. These features are called …
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The Effect of Communication Style on Task Performance and Mental Workload Using Wearable Computers
… a voice activated software application run on wearable computer under five different communication styles (buttons, command line, icon buttons, icon text menus, and text menus). The goal of this thesis was to determine which communication style would be best allow wearable computer users to …
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A methodology and software platform for building wearable communities
… and communication technologies have emerged: wearable computers and wireless personal area networks. Wearable computers advance an innovative form of personal computing based on continuously worn, intelligent assistants that augment memory, intellect, communication, and physical senses. …
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A self-contained motion capture platform for e-textiles
Wearable computers and e-textiles are increasingly prevalent in today's society. Motion capture is one of many potential applications for on-body electronic systems. Self-contained motion capture applications require information from sensors distributed throughout the body on a "smart" garment. …
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Analysis of a self-contained motion capture garment for e-textiles
Wearable computers and e-textiles are becoming increasingly widespread in today's society. Motion capture is one of the many potential applications for on-body electronic systems. Previous work has been performed at Virginia Tech's E-textiles Laboratory to design a framework for a self-contained …
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An Intelligent Authentication Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Environments
… features an abundance of embedded processors, wearable computers, smart consumer devices, sensors, and digital communication, which are all tightly coupled to form an ""Active Space."" Active spaces enhance education, distance learning, remote collaboration, resource sharing, group activities, …
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Digital digits : designing assistive finger augmentation devices
Wearable computers are becoming a widespread reality. Driven by a quest for sensorial ultrability (ultra-ability) and control of our environment and bodies, we search for ever more intimate solutions to increase our innate physical capacities using technology. Finger-wearable devices for …
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Learning Program Specifications from Sample Runs
… being reality recently with self-driving cars, wearable computers and autonomous robots, software reliability is growing increasingly important. A critical pre-requisite to ensure the software that controls such systems is correct is the availability of precise specifications that describe a …
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Effects of Chemical Protective Clothing on Task Performance using Wearable Input Devices
Wearable computers allow users the freedom to work in any environment including hazardous environments that may require protective clothing. Past research has shown that protective clothing interferes with manual materials handling tasks, medical tasks, and manual dexterity tasks. However, little …
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Analysis of Performance Resulting from the Design of Selected Hand-Held Input Control Devices and Visual Displays
… there is little research on pointing devices for wearable computer technology. This is surprising because pointing devices are a major component of a wearable computer system, allowing the wearer to select and manipulate objects on the screen. The design of these pointing devices will have a major …
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Story beads : a wearable for distributed and mobile storytelling
… of images and image sequences. StoyBeads are wearable computers developed as a tool for constructing image-based stories by allowing users to sequence and trade story pieces of image and text. StoyBeads are modular, wearable computer necklaces made of tiny computer "beads" capable of storing …
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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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Development of the core technology for the creation of electronically-active, smart yarn
… will pave the way for the creation of truly-wearable electronic systems in the near future. The aim of this research is the development of a core technology for embedding functional semiconductor devices within the fibres of a yarn, in order to create electronically-active yarns (e-yarn). …
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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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Activity monitoring: continuous recognition and performance evaluation
Abstract. Wearable computers promise the ability to access information and computing resources directly from miniature devices embedded in our clothing. The problem lies in how to access the most relevant information without disrupting whatever task it is we are doing. Most existing interfaces, …