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Heart-rate sensing is very important. Whereas there are different methods and commercial products available, they all have a common drawback: the user has to mount some piece of sensor to his body. This paper provides a case study on how micro-impulse ...

This paper proposes a method for monitoring the everyday nursing activities of medication, one part of the nurse's job that has been cited as a major cause of medical accidents. In our proposal, which we call the "E-Nightingale project," a wearable ...

We present FreeDigiter, an interface for mobile devices which enables rapid entry of digits using finger gestures. FreeDigiter is an infrared proximity sensor with a dual axis accelerometer and requires little signal processing. Initial laboratory ...

Hand gesture-based interface is one of the most promising modes of natural and fluid human-computer interaction that substitutes for the mouse and keyboard in wearable computing systems. In wearable computing scenarios, hand positioning and tracking is ...

This work describes an isolated sign language recognition (SLR) system that combines features from a video camera and an instrumented glove. Various combinations of features were tested on American Sign Language (ASL) vocabularies ranging from 10 to 200 ...

Intelligent and functional textile fibers have attracted interest worldwide due to their high potential applications in electrochromic display, battery or sensors.Polyaniline (PANI) is considered as a promising material among many conductive polymers to ...

Unobtrusive sensors are an important element in wearable systems. One approach in constructing unobtrusive transducers is to use smart materials and then integrate them into smart unobtrusive fabric structures. These types of transducers are called ...

In this paper, we describe an autonomous, wearable electronic textile location awareness system that will determine a user's location within a building given a map of that building. The system uses a moderate number of ultrasonic range transceivers as ...

We present work on the development and deployment of a wearable system for displaying vibrotactile stimuli at multiple locations on a person. This system is targeted as a general-purpose controller, with the flexibility to support many types of output ...

The Wearable Active Camera/Laser (WACL) allows the remote collaborators not only to independently set their viewpoints into the wearer's workplace but also to point to real objects directly with the laser spot. In this paper, we report an user test to ...

Exploiting the latest information is very important for winning a motorbike race. However, it is difficult for a pit crew to acquire the latest information while working. The miniaturization of computers has enabled the creation of wearable computers ...

A real-time three-dimensional position and orientation tracking system is proposed for use with wearable augmented-reality systems.The system combines infrared markers with a head-mounted stereo camera to detect the user's position, and an orientation ...

As advances are made in wearable computing, there is a need for a personal mobile hub that can manage interactions between the wearable devices and act as a proxy for these devices. In this paper we describe why this is a good model, why the interfaces ...

Previously we demonstrated that after 400 minutes of practice, ten novices averaged over 26 words per minute (wpm) for text entry on the Twiddler one-handed chording keyboard, outperforming the multi-tap mobile text entry standard. Here we present a ...

This paper explores the emotional and the functional aspects of a new type of wearable notification interface. Three wearable devices with different shape, color and size have been developed: tangible mascot, box-shaped notifier and PDA virtual agent. ...

Target selection is a task carried out by many wearable computer users. Conventional desktop pointing devices such as mice are not appropriate for the wearable user as they are designed for use within the conventional desktop paradigm. Although many ...

We introduce an input system that is based on bidirectional strokes that are segmented by tactile landmarks. By giving the user tactile feedback about the length of a stroke during input, we decrease the dependence of the GUI on the visual display. By ...

This paper presents techniques designed to facilitate interaction at a distance in mobile augmented reality and evaluates different input controls for them. The goal of the techniques is to quickly and accurately annotate distant physical objects not ...

We present two early prototype systems that leverage computer memory to augment human memory in everyday situations. Both experiments investigate the role of eye tracking as a way to detect a person's attention and use this knowledge to affect short and ...

Ubiquitous, high-resolution, large public displays offer an attractive complement to wearable displays. Unfortunately, the inherently public nature of these public displays makes them unsuitable for displaying sensitive information. We present EyeGuide, ...

The paper presents a prototype of a wearable, sound-analysis based, user activity recognition device. It focuses on low-power realization suitable for a miniaturized implementation. We describe a tradeoff analysis between recognition performance and ...

This paper seeks to explore an alternative and more embedded-oriented approach to the recognition of a person's motion and pose, using sensor types that can easily be distributed in clothing. A large proportion of this type of research so far has been ...