{"title":"Smart Sight: a tourist assistant system","authors":"Jie Yang, Weiyi Yang, Matthias Denecke, A. Waibel","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806662","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present our efforts towards developing an intelligent tourist system. The system is equipped with a unique combination of sensors and software. The hardware includes two computers, a GPS receiver, a lapel microphone plus an earphone, a video camera and a head-mounted display. This combination includes a multimodal interface to take advantage of speech and gesture input to provide assistance for a tourist. The software supports natural language processing, speech recognition, machine translation, handwriting recognition and multimodal fusion. A vision module is trained to locate and read written language, is able to adapt to to new environments, and is able to interpret intentions offered by the user such as a spoken clarification or pointing gesture. We illustrate the applications of the system using two examples.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"58 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":"128994022","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}
Gerd Kortuem, J. Schneider, Jim Suruda, S. Fickas, Z. Segall
{"title":"When Cyborgs meet: building communities of cooperating wearable agents","authors":"Gerd Kortuem, J. Schneider, Jim Suruda, S. Fickas, Z. Segall","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806690","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the notion of a wearable community as a group of wearable users who cooperate for their mutual benefit. In such a community, wearable computers act as personal agents on behalf of and in the interest of their 'owners'. These agents are goal-directed and will perform a broad array of tasks for the user, ranging from personal scheduling to task planning. We describe how personal wearable agents can be used to enable goal directed cooperation during physical encounters of people with selfish and conflicting goals, such that cooperation leads to mutually beneficial results. We discuss negotiation protocols, and describe the design and implementation of a wearable agent system, as well as a simulator for large-scale wearable communities.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"693 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":"132278778","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}
J. Farringdon, A. Moore, Nancy Tilbury, James Church, Pieter D. Biemond
{"title":"Wearable sensor badge and sensor jacket for context awareness","authors":"J. Farringdon, A. Moore, Nancy Tilbury, James Church, Pieter D. Biemond","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806681","url":null,"abstract":"The addition of sensors to wearable computers allows them to adapt their functions to more suit the activities and situation of their wearers. A wearable sensor badge is described constructed from (hard) electronic components, which can sense perambulatory activities for context-awareness. A wearable sensor jacket is described that uses advanced knitting techniques to form (soft) fabric stretch sensors positioned to measure upper limb and body movement. Worn on-the-hip, or worn as clothing, these unobtrusive sensors supply abstract information about your current activity to your other wearable computers.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"6 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":"127509929","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":"The Conference Assistant: combining context-awareness with wearable computing","authors":"A. Dey, D. Salber, G. Abowd, Masayasu Futakawa","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806639","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the Conference Assistant, a prototype mobile, context-aware application that assists conference attendees. We discuss the strong relationship between context-awareness and wearable computing and apply this relationship in the Conference Assistant. The application uses a wide variety of contexts and enhances user interactions with both the environment and other users. We describe how the application is used and the context-aware architecture on which it is based.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"3 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":"125329100","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":"The WearBoy: a platform for low-cost public wearable devices","authors":"P. Ljungstrand, Staffan Björk, Jennica Falk","doi":"10.1109/ISWC.1999.806926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISWC.1999.806926","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce the WearBoy-a wearable, modified Nintendo GameBoy-as a platform for exploring public wearable devices. We have minimized the size of a Color GameBoy circuit board to enable users to comfortably wear it, making the device not much larger than the actual screen. Technical properties of the WearBoy are discussed, along with two applications using the platform.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"88 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114011518","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}
A. Smailagic, D. Siewiorek, Bob Iannucci, A. Dahbura, L. Bass
{"title":"MoCCA: a Mobile Communication and Computing Architecture","authors":"A. Smailagic, D. Siewiorek, Bob Iannucci, A. Dahbura, L. Bass","doi":"10.1145/584039.584047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/584039.584047","url":null,"abstract":"We present an integrated computing system designed to help increase the efficiency of mobile workers, specifically field service engineers. Our solution, a Mobile Communications and Computing Architecture (MoCCA), consists of both a futuristic award-winning concept design and a first-generation working prototype. The prototype has support for collaborative multimedia: on-the-move networking for high-tech equipment maintenance using voice, video clips, and access to maintenance databases. We describe the user interface, software, and hardware architectures of our prototype. The hardware architecture uses a multi-tier networking scheme to trade off a small lightweight client and high computation power and battery life. Finally, we present lessons learned from user tests in applying a novel mobile computing architecture to a complex real-world task.","PeriodicalId":356535,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Papers. Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134045219","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}