{"title":"What can a dumb watch teach a smartwatch?: informing the design of smartwatches","authors":"Kent Lyons","doi":"10.1145/2802083.2802084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2802083.2802084","url":null,"abstract":"With the release of Android Wear the Apple Watch, we are seeing a resurgence in the industry of smartwatch offerings. While there has been research on the technical feasibility of smartwatches as well as research proposing novel watch interactions, there has been relatively little work trying to uncover what user-centered values a smartwatch might offer to its wearer. We detail a user study of 50 everyday watch wearers focused on eliciting usage practices of traditional dumb watches. We discuss themes uncovered in our participants' perceptions of watch features, aesthetics, and the daily patterns of wearing and not wearing a watch. We also present participant perceptions of smartwatches and draw upon their mobile phone use. Using this data, we discuss possible smartwatch apps and the implications these findings might have for smartwatches.","PeriodicalId":372395,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122224451","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":"Estimating physical ability of stroke patients without specific tests","authors":"A. Derungs, J. Seiter, C. Schuster-Amft, O. Amft","doi":"10.1145/2802083.2808412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2802083.2808412","url":null,"abstract":"We estimate the Extended Barthel Index (EBI) in patients after stroke using inertial sensor measurements acquired during daily activity, rather than specific assessments. The EBI is a standard clinical assessment showing patient independence in handling everyday tasks. Our work aims at providing a continuous ability estimate for patients and therapists that could be used without expert supervision. We extract nine activity primitives (AP), including sitting, standing, transition, etc. from the continuous sensor data using basic rules that do not require data-based training. Using the relative duration of activity primitives, we evaluate the EBI score estimation using two regression methods: Generalised Linear Models (GLM) and Support-Vector Regression (SVR). We evaluated our approaches in full-day study recordings from 11 stroke patients with totally 102 days in ambulatory rehabilitation in a day-care centre. Our results show that EBI can be estimated from the activity primitives with approximately 12% relative error on average for all study participants using SVR. Our results indicate that EBI can be estimated in daily life activity, thus supporting patients and therapists in tracking rehab progress.","PeriodicalId":372395,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131593363","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":"Wearing another's personality: a human-surrogate system with a telepresence face","authors":"Kana Misawa, J. Rekimoto","doi":"10.1145/2802083.2808392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2802083.2808392","url":null,"abstract":"ChameleonMask is a telepresence system that displays a remote user's face on another user's face. Whereas most telepresence systems are designed to provide the remote user with an existence via a teleoperated robot, the system uses a real human as a surrogate for the remote user. This is accomplished by the surrogate user wearing a mask-shaped display that shows the remote user's live face, and a voice channel transmitting the remote user's voice. The surrogate user mimics the remote user by following the remote user's directions. In initial experiments conducted, the surrogate tended to be regarded as the actual person (i.e., the remote user). We implemented applications the remote user gives the surrogate directions visually. We conducted user studies to determine how the remote user felt about giving directions to the surrogate and how the surrogate felt to be the body of the director. In the studies conducted, the director had the confidence to go outside with ChameleonMask and the surrogate tended to fulfill the director's requests and felt positive about being the surrogate.","PeriodicalId":372395,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"478 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132556747","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}
Gábor Sörös, Stephan Semmler, Luc Humair, Otmar Hilliges
{"title":"Fast blur removal for wearable QR code scanners","authors":"Gábor Sörös, Stephan Semmler, Luc Humair, Otmar Hilliges","doi":"10.1145/2802083.2808390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2802083.2808390","url":null,"abstract":"We present a fast restoration-recognition algorithm for scanning motion-blurred QR codes on handheld and wearable devices. We blindly estimate the blur from the salient edges of the code in an iterative optimization scheme, alternating between image sharpening, blur estimation, and decoding. The restored image is constrained to exploit the properties of QR codes which ensures fast convergence. The checksum of the code allows early termination when the code is first readable and precludes false positive detections. General blur removal algorithms perform poorly in restoring visual codes and are slow even on high-performance PCs. The proposed algorithm achieves good reconstruction quality on QR codes and outperforms existing methods in terms of speed. We present PC and Android implementations of a complete QR scanner and evaluate the algorithm on synthetic and real test images. Our work indicates a promising step towards enterprise-grade scan performance with wearable devices.","PeriodicalId":372395,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123639617","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}
Joseph Korpela, Kazuyuki Takase, T. Hirashima, T. Maekawa, Julien Eberle, D. Chakraborty, K. Aberer
{"title":"An energy-aware method for the joint recognition of activities and gestures using wearable sensors","authors":"Joseph Korpela, Kazuyuki Takase, T. Hirashima, T. Maekawa, Julien Eberle, D. Chakraborty, K. Aberer","doi":"10.1145/2802083.2808400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2802083.2808400","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an energy-aware method for recognizing time series acceleration data containing both activities and gestures using a wearable device coupled with a smartphone. In our method, we use a small wearable device to collect accelerometer data from a user's wrist, recognizing each data segment using a minimal feature set chosen automatically for that segment. For each collected data segment, if our model finds that recognizing the segment requires high-cost features that the wearable device cannot extract, such as dynamic time warping for gesture recognition, then the segment is transmitted to the smartphone where the high-cost features are extracted and recognition is performed. Otherwise, only the minimum required set of low-cost features are extracted from the segment on the wearable device and only the recognition result, i.e., label, is transmitted to the smartphone in place of the raw data, reducing transmission costs. Our method automatically constructs this adaptive processing pipeline solely from training data.","PeriodicalId":372395,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126894289","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}
Andreas Mehmann, Matija Varga, Karl Gönner, G. Tröster
{"title":"A ball-grid-array-like electronics-to-textile pocket connector for wearable electronics","authors":"Andreas Mehmann, Matija Varga, Karl Gönner, G. Tröster","doi":"10.1145/2802083.2802093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2802083.2802093","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we introduce and characterize a new type of connector between smart textile and electronic devices. The connector is based on a ball grid array structure which is pressed against conductive textile pads in a stretchable pocket. The connector keeps textile and electronics fabrication separate. It offers 56 connections on an area of 60 × 100mm2, which is about the size of a smart phone. The resistance of the connection is 1.4Ω at DC, mostly constant up to 10 kHz and below 3Ω up to 100 kHz. This resistance is low compared to measured sensor resistances for resistive pressure sensing or bio-impedance sensing.","PeriodicalId":372395,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130430874","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":"Estimating visual attention from a head mounted IMU","authors":"T. Leelasawassuk, D. Damen, W. Mayol-Cuevas","doi":"10.1145/2802083.2808394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2802083.2808394","url":null,"abstract":"This paper concerns with the evaluation of methods for the estimation of both temporal and spatial visual attention using a head-worn inertial measurement unit (IMU). Aimed at tasks where there is a wearer-object interaction, we estimate the when and the where the wearer is interested in. We evaluate various methods on a new egocentric dataset from 8 volunteers and compare our results with those achievable with a commercial gaze tracker used as ground-truth. Our approach is primarily geared for sensor-minimal EyeWear computing.","PeriodicalId":372395,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131554152","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":"Exploring current practices for battery use and management of smartwatches","authors":"Chulhong Min, Seungwoo Kang, Chungkuk Yoo, Jeehoon Cha, Sangwon Choi, Younghan Oh, Junehwa Song","doi":"10.1145/2802083.2802085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2802083.2802085","url":null,"abstract":"As an emerging wearable device, a number of commercial smartwatches have been released and widely used. While many people have concerns about the battery life of a smartwatch, there is no systematic study for the main usage of a smartwatch, its battery life, or battery discharging and recharging patterns of real smartwatch users. Accordingly, we know little about the current practices for battery use and management of smartwatches. To address this, we conduct an online survey to examine usage behaviors of 59 smartwatch users and an in-depth analysis on the battery usage data from 17 Android Wear smartwatch users. We investigate the unique characteristics of smartwatches' battery usage, users' satisfaction and concerns, and recharging patterns through an online survey and data analysis on battery usage.","PeriodicalId":372395,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116357028","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":"Activity classification at a higher level: what to do after the classifier does its best?","authors":"Rabih Younes, Thomas L. Martin, Mark T. Jones","doi":"10.1145/2802083.2808405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2802083.2808405","url":null,"abstract":"Research in activity classification has focused on the sensors, the classification techniques and the machine learning algorithms used in the classifier. In this work, we study a higher level of activity classification. We present two methods that can take the final observations of a classifier and improve them. The first method uses hidden Markov models to define a probabilistic model that can be used to improve classification accuracy. The second method is a novel method that we developed that uses probabilistic models along with matching costs in order to improve accuracy. Testing showed that both proposed methods presented a significant increase in classification accuracy rates, while also proving that they can both run in real time.","PeriodicalId":372395,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129036295","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}
Matthias Berning, Florian Braun, T. Riedel, M. Beigl
{"title":"ProximityHat: a head-worn system for subtle sensory augmentation with tactile stimulation","authors":"Matthias Berning, Florian Braun, T. Riedel, M. Beigl","doi":"10.1145/2802083.2802088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2802083.2802088","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present the iterative design process of our wearable sensory substitution system ProximityHat, which uses pressure actuators around the head to convey spatial information. It was already shown that the sense of touch can be used to augment our perception of reality. Existing systems focus on vibration signals for information transfer, but this is unsuitable for constant stimulation in everyday use. Our system determines the distance to surrounding objects with ultrasonic sensors and maps this information to an inward pressure. It was evaluated in a study with 13 blindfolded subjects in orientation and navigation tasks. The users were able to discern at least three different absolute pressure levels with high certainty. Combined with the sensors, they could also use continuous values to navigate hallways and find doors. Most users had only a few collisions, but a small group of three individuals struggled more. We attribute this to the latency and resolution of the final prototype, which led to slow walking speed and will be addressed in future work.","PeriodicalId":372395,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"386 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128305888","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}