{"title":"The Matchbox PC: a small wearable platform","authors":"Greg DeFouw, V. Pratt","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806713","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the Matchbox PC, a fully functional PC not much larger than a box of matches yet able to run popular operating systems such as Linux and Windows and to perform most tasks commonly run on desktop PCs. Although our motivating application is wearable computing, we expect many other applications will emerge.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"26 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116519232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Thomas, K. Grimmer-Somers, Danijela Makovec, J. Zucco, B. Gunther
{"title":"Determination of placement of a body-attached mouse as a pointing input device for wearable computers","authors":"B. Thomas, K. Grimmer-Somers, Danijela Makovec, J. Zucco, B. Gunther","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806925","url":null,"abstract":"We believe the notion of hands free operation is critical to the successful use of wearable computer systems. As such, we investigated possible placements of an input device for a wearable computer on different portions of the user's body, while the user assumed different postures (sitting, standing, kneeling, and prone).","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121528245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining positional information with visual media","authors":"N. Campbell, Henk L. Muller, C. Randell","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806929","url":null,"abstract":"By integrating visual media with positioning information obtained with our wearable computer, we create new opportunities for using visuals both in the field and at the workstation. The position information we store with each visual is direction, pitch, roll, location, focal length, and zoom. This information allows any system to reconstruct the frustum of the visual and, if height data is available to reconstruct which parts of the Earth are visible in the visual. This enables position based lookup and 3D mosaicing of visuals to reconstruct a 3D model.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127526129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wearable computing meets ubiquitous computing: reaping the best of both worlds","authors":"Brad Rhodes, N. Minar, Joshua Weaver","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806695","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes what we see as fundamental difficulties in both the pure ubiquitous computing and pure wearable computing paradigms when applied to context-aware applications. In particular, ubiquitous computing and smart room systems tend to have difficulties with privacy and personalization, while wearable systems have trouble with localized information, localized resource control, and resource management between multiple people. These difficulties are discussed and a peer-to-peer network of wearable and ubiquitous computing components is proposed as a solution. This solution is demonstrated through several implemented applications.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126997979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juha Lehikoinen, J. Holopainen, M. Salmimaa, Angelo Aldrovandi
{"title":"MEX: a distributed software architecture for wearable computers","authors":"Juha Lehikoinen, J. Holopainen, M. Salmimaa, Angelo Aldrovandi","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806650","url":null,"abstract":"A new dynamic software architecture for wearable computers is proposed. Key properties of this MEX architecture are examined and compared to some other existing software architecture. One application utilizing MEX, called WalkMap, is presented. The aim of the applications currently under development is to enhance the communication and cooperation of the users utilizing wearable computers in their daily lives. Based on that, the software components needed to access context information anywhere and the hardware requirements arising from constant usage are considered. The hardware platform for the software architecture developed is briefly described.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"103 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114016081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Force XXI Land Warrior: implementing spoken commands for soldier wearable systems","authors":"G. Cleveland, Linda McNinch","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806720","url":null,"abstract":"Implementing effective control systems for wearable computers presents numerous design challenges, especially when the end users are soldiers who need to use their hands to control weapons rather than computers. The paper describes the work performed and the results achieved by the System Voice Control team on the Force XXI Land Warrior (FXXI LW) project at Motorola. This team integrated Motorola's CVoxCon Speech recognition system into an existing soldier computer system. The successful CVoxCon implementation suggests guidance for other efforts and areas for future investigation.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115370621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indoor navigation using a diverse set of cheap, wearable sensors","authors":"Andrew R. Golding, N. Lesh","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806640","url":null,"abstract":"Machine learning techniques are applied to the task of context awareness, or inferring aspects of the user's state given a stream of inputs from sensors worn by the person. We focus on the task of indoor navigation and show that, by integrating information from accelerometers, magnetometers and temperature and light sensors, we can collect enough information to infer the user's location. However, our navigation algorithm performs very poorly, with almost a 50% error rate, if we use only the raw sensor signals. Instead, we introduce a \"data cooking\" module that computes appropriate high-level features from the raw sensor data. By introducing these high-level features, we are able to reduce the error rate to 2% in our example environment.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114635860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymmetries in collaborative wearable interfaces","authors":"M. Billinghurst, S. Bee, J. Bowskill, H. Kato","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806693","url":null,"abstract":"Communication asymmetries are inherent in collaborative dialogues between wearable computer and desktop users. We give a definition and overview of what communication asymmetries are and their potential impact on the design of collaborative wearable interfaces. We also review results from collaborations with two asymmetric interfaces and present a set of implications for developers of collaborative wearable interfaces.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126582652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wearable computers for the fire service and police force: technological and human factors","authors":"D. Haniff, Chris Baber","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806922","url":null,"abstract":"Wearable computer applications can be defined broadly as situationally-aware and situationally-unaware. A situationally-aware fire-fighter application which is under development is described and a situationally-unaware police force application is presented. However, underlying these developments is the issue of the appropriateness of the user interface for these applications.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"224 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129173524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electric suspenders: a fabric power bus and data network for wearable digital devices","authors":"M. Gorlick","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806684","url":null,"abstract":"One goal of wearable computing is to create digital devices that are as easy to don and as comfortable to wear as common articles of clothing such as blouses, pants, and belts. New forms of woven materials such as conductive webbings, which incorporate durable electrical conductors directly into the matrix of the weave, offer exciting possibilities for closely integrating digital electronics with conventional clothing. However, many practical obstacles hinder the adoption of these materials, not the least being a lack of reliable electrical connectors for the interconnection of conventional electronics with conductive fabrics. We present a simple and workable design for just such connectors and demonstrate how a commonplace article of clothing-suspenders-can be transformed into an effective power bus and data network for wearable digital devices. Both the power bus and the data network are described in detail, including the mechanics of attachment and an outline of the network protocols. The techniques illustrated can be readily applied to other articles of clothing and accessories.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116540609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}