Science Daily 2001-01-02 GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Think of it as an electronic seeing-eye dog. A University of Florida engineering student has designed a helmet equipped with sensors that detect when the wearer is about to run into something. The helmet then beeps or vibrates, alerting the wearer to change course. "It’s a possible navigation system for visually impaired people in the workplace or in their homes, or possibly even for outdoors use," said Dale Milcetich, a UF senior and double ma ...

"Heads-up" Display Lives Up to Its Name Released: Fri 28-May-2004, 07:00 ET Source: National Science Foundation (NSF) NewsWise Newswise — Using a common laptop computer and a sophisticated head-mounted projection device, students at the University of Washington (UW) have created a system to help people with poor vision navigate around stationary objects. The Wearable Low Vision Aid (WLVA) is the first portable device to draw attention to obstacles using an illuminated, vibrating crystal t ...

"Killer App" of wearable computing: wireless force sensing body protectors for martial arts Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology table of contents Santa Fe, NM, USA SESSION: Wacky hardware table of contents Pages: 277 - 285 Year of Publication: 2004 ISBN:1-58113-957-8 Authors Ed H. Chi Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA Jin Song Impact Measurement, San Jose, C ...

"Magic of Today: Tomorrow’s Technology” Wearables for Kids By Marilyn Panayi and David Roy, University of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Odense, Denmark Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT Research is presented that illustrates frameworks being developed that involve young children in the process of development of future wearable technologies – A hypercamera - the KidsCam. It is envisioned that ...

"Smart Rooms, Smart Clothes" to be Topic of Computer Science Lecture Contact: Elizabeth Luciano University of Massachusetts Amherst Nov. 18, 1997 AMHERST, Mass. - "Smart Rooms, Smart Clothes" will be the topic of the fourth lecture in the 1997-98 Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the computer science department at the University of Massachusetts. Professor Alex Pentland, academic head of the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on Wed., Dec. 3, i ...

9 May 2003 "Smart" clothing is a new and coming trend in German and other European markets. A number of sports wear producers are successfully selling garments that do more than just protect and decorate their owners, giving credence to the notion that information and entertainment are fast becoming value items in clothing. But not to be ignored are occupational users such as hospital workers and firefighters, particularly exposed groupings, and relevant in the revelations over such issues as ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » Industrial Product Bulletin; 9/1/2002 Do you ever wonder how we all managed the flow of information before cell phones, PDAs, recorders, remote controls, two-way radios, camcorders, scanners, and other electronic information systems came into use? Nowadays, these devices all seem to be a necessary part of our business (and personal) lives. But where do you keep all this equipment for ready access during the workday (and weekend)? Although technology has been changing quite rapidly, the ability to efficiently use and carry these devices has not been addressed--until now. The SCOTTeVEST[TM], a form of Technolog...

written by Peter Barnes, Tech Live Washington, DC bureau chief on Thursday, March 21, 2002 Imagine a fabric that can double as a radio antenna. Before long, soldiers may be wearing just such a textile into battle. The Pentagon is testing "active fabrics," or "e-fabrics," created to conduct heat and electricity and carry voice, data, and even video images. Tonight's "Tech Live" looks at how the materials could make it easier for the digital soldier. "We were able to integrate electronic and ...

BBC News 15 Jun 2004 By Jo Twist A wearable camera full of sensors could help people with memory problems, according to Microsoft researchers. The prototype SenseCam takes an instant snap every time it spots changes in movement, temperature or light. Currently capable of storing 2,000 images on a 128MB memory card, the cam could help people record their days. The technology has been developed by the Microsoft Research laboratories in Cambridge, UK, and is to undergo tests at Addenbrooke ...

'Body Area Networks' in 2020? 10 décembre 2004 Roland Piquepaille This is almost certain, according to Ian Pearson, a futurologist working for British Telecom. In fifteen years, local area networks will be replaced by body area networks. As writes BBC News Online, "when technology gets personal," you can expect a "pervasive ambient world" where "chips are everywhere." Not only we'll be surrounded by intelligent objects in the streets, but we'll wear clothes made of nano-engineered smart fabr ...

'Brainwave' cap controls computer Tuesday, 7 December, 2004 BBC News A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer. Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes. Previous research has shown that monkeys can control a computer with electrodes implanted into their brain. The New York team reported their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academ ...

'Cyborg' technology designed to make U.S. soldiers more effective CNN.com August 10, 2000 Web posted at: 11:44 AM EDT (1544 GMT) FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (AP) -- It is designed to make the 21st century U.S. soldier a more effective instrument of war, a veritable cyborg able to communicate with more speed and efficiency. Since early June, 44 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division have been experimenting with a prototype system the Army calls the "Land Warrior." Its video cameras allow s ...

'Dick Tracy' wristwatch phone on the way March 29, 2003 Associated Press The Japan Times NTT DoCoMo Inc. will soon start selling a Dick Tracy-style mobile phone that's wearable like a wristwatch and snaps off to become a regular handset. "We are targeting young businessmen in their 20s and 30s as the device looks a bit rugged," DoCoMo spokesman Takuya Kono said. The Wristomo watch opens up to become a phone, and users can talk while wearing it -- just like the U.S. comic-book hero. Manufactured by Seiko Instruments, the phone weighs 113 grams, including batteries, and hooks up to DoCoMo's i-mode Net-linking service. The company expects to sell 5,000 of the phones, which will run 30,000 yen to 40,000 yen. They will be sold through a Web site starting next month.

'Electronic eye' helps blind across the road November 19, 2004 NewScientist.com news service An electronic "artificial eye", developed for people with impaired vision, has been shown to reliably identify pedestrian crossings, determine when it is safe to walk across and even measure the width of a road. The system, created by Tadayoshi Shioyama and Mohammad Uddin, at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan, consists of a single miniature camera that can be clipped onto a pair of glasse ...

'Extreme Textiles' exhibit focuses on high-perfomance fibers May. 19, 2005 SAMANTHA CRITCHELL The Mercury News NEW YORK - You hear "textiles," you think T-shirts. Or maybe you think trade because of the battle between U.S. and Chinese clothing manufacturers. If you're a fashionista, textiles might bring to mind a luxe embroidered fabric used by Oscar de la Renta or a sassy print from Betsey Johnson. Even then, you're limiting yourself: There's actually an exciting world of textiles beyond ...

'Going through the motions' to better treat dementia October 28, 2004 Medical News Today Doctors are turning to wireless technology in an effort to better treat people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Thanks to a $200,000 grant from the Alzheimer's Association and Intel Corp., psychiatrist Adrian Leibovici, M.D., will explore whether gadgets such as motion sensors and wearable motion detectors can give doctors and nurses a clear picture of patients' lives in their own hom ...

'Intelligent' clothes drive new research Nov 22 2004 icWales WELSH scientists are developing smart clothing of the future that can play music or even give instructions to the washing machine. Clothes that monitor blood sugar for diabetics, sportswear that cools athletes down, and garments tracked by satellite are just some of the possible areas to be tackled by a new unit at the University of Wales, Newport. The Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology Research Unit, based at the Newport Scho ...

Thursday 21 October 2004 BOMBAY - Indian apparel companies have introduced a range of clothes for slogging nine to five executives - shirts and trousers that emanate perfume, repel mosquitos, keep you cool and remain spotless even when splashed with coffee. The concept has been well received in grimy India where weather often dictates what you wear or don't wear, company officials said. After a modest beginning when they were relegated to the "new arrivals" shelves, the "smart" or IQ ...

'Invisible' Computing PhysOrg.com December 07, 2004 Computer scientists and electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have joined a consortium of mostly European scientists setting out to network together the billions of electronic devices in everyday use. The Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems (RUNES) project aims to expand and simplify existing and future networks of devices and embedded systems. Between now and April 2007 when the projec ...

By Jake Shaw NewsFactor Network July 27, 2004 2:00PM A German clothing company and a chip manufacturer have teamed up to create a jacket that plays MP3s and interfaces with a cell phone. The mp3blue jacket includes a textile keyboard on the arm, speakers in the collar, plus an MP3 player and a Bluetooth module. It not only looks smart and keeps you warm -- a new "lifestyle" jacket includes an MP3 player, a textile keyboard on the left arm and headphones in its collar. The mp3blue jacket f ...

InTech 01 January 2003 Blacksburg, Va.-E-textiles may soon become personal "wearable computers" and large sensing and communications fabrics if engineering researchers at Virginia Tech have their way. Mark Jones and Tom Martin, both faculty in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, are principal investigators on two federally funded e-textiles projects. E-textiles are cloth interwoven with electronic components. ith funding from the Defense Advanced ...

'Memory' glasses would cue wearer's memory with tiny computer display By THEO EMERY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seattle Post-Intelligencer Friday, November 28, 2003 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- When Richard DeVaul sits down to his computer, he sometimes forgets to eat for hours at a time. Names slip his mind at cocktail parties and, to his embarrassment, he mixes up the faces of people he knows well. A string on the finger might have been a solution in the past, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo ...

Martyn Williams, IDG News Service Thursday, July 05, 2001 Wearable speakers also vibrate for special effects, suited to games and music. A South Korean company has come up with a new take on surround-sound stereo speakers that promises to put the shake back into shake, rattle, and roll. The U-shaped Neckphone, developed by Neckphone, is a wearable set of surround-sound speakers. You hang the horseshoe-shaped device around your neck. It contains two small speakers, one on the right and one on ...

'No Starch, Please, I Don't Want To Damage The Phone' July 23, 2001 By Larry Greenemeier InformationWeek.com From the far reaches of outer space to the shirt on your back, "smart fabric" technology is looking very fashionable. In the next few years, smart fabric, which consists of layers of optical fibers running through a foam bed, will touch a number of industries, from communications to computer peripherals. When technologists at Canada's Tactex Controls Inc. developed its fiber-optic ...

'Self-cleaning' Suits May Be In Your Future Source: American Chemical Society Date: 2004-11-23 Sending your favorite suit to the dry cleaners could one day become an infrequent practice. Researchers at Clemson University are developing a highly water-repellant coating made of silver nanoparticles that they say can be used to produce suits and other clothing items that offer superior resistance to dirt as well as water and require much less cleaning than conventional fabrics. The patent ...

'Smart bandage' diagnoses danger before infection takes hold November 2001 University of Rochester Science Blog Imagine placing an adhesive bandage on a cut and having the bandage tell you immediately that dangerous bacteria have gotten into the wound and that you need to seek a doctor's help. Researchers at the University of Rochester have taken the first major step toward a bandage that will change color depending on what kind of bacteria may be present in a wound. It can give an instant ...

'Smart bullet' reports back wirelessly May 28, 2004 By Will Knight NewScientist.com news service A "smart bullet" that can be fired at a target and then wirelessly transmit back useful information has been developed by US researchers. The projectile, created at the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, is 1.7 centimetres in diameter can be fired at from an ordinary paint-ball gun. The front is coated in an adhesive polymer that sticks it to the target. Inside, the elongated projectil ...

'Smart Concrete' Would Determine Weight Of Trucks As They Travel On A Highway 1999 Science Blog 'Smart Concrete' Would Determine Weight Of Trucks As They Travel On A Highway BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Truck-weighing stations on highways could become a thing of the past as a result of a new application for "smart concrete" developed by University at Buffalo engineers. A paper on the research authored by Deborah D.L. Chung, Ph.D., UB Niagara Mohawk Chair of Materials Research and professor of mechanical ...

'Smart Fabric' or Interactive Textile Products Market Seen on the Horizon January 14, 2003 Embedded Star According to a new market study from Venture Development Corporation (VDC) titled "The Global Market for Wearable Computers: The Quest for Killer Applications", worldwide shipments of clothing based ("smart fabric") wearable products are expected to total over $47 million in 2006. VDC forecasts commercial shipments of integrated clothing based wearable solutions starting 2002. Lead Analy ...

'Smart T-shirts' can sound the alarm November 27, 1998 By Robert Davis USAToday A computer T-shirt woven with fiber optics and electrically conductive thread may soon monitor the health of soldiers, rescuers, the elderly and others who are medically vulnerable. The "smart T-shirt" was developed by the government as a potential tool for pinpointing soldiers' injuries and helping medics decide whom to treat first on the battlefield. The shirt can tell when a bullet has ripped into the body, ...

Mirror.co.uk Oct 5 2004 CLOTHES that react to temperature to keep you warm or cool are on the way, say scientists. Micro-technology allows the material to let in air to cool the wearer when it is hot and shut out air when it is cold. The technology is based on how pine cones sense temperature to open up and let their seeds out. The University of Bath and the London College of Fashion say it could be in everyday use within a few years. Prof Julian Vincent, head of the university's centre for biomimetics, said: "Smart clothing will make wearers' lives much more comfortable." Veronika Kapsali, a student at the college, said: "It's up to me to work with the new material to make something that looks pretty cool."

'Smart' clothes feature sensors and cameras March 2000 Ken Clark TDC Trade Manufacturers will soon launch an exciting collection of "intelligent" clothes made from "smart" fabrics. Among these wireless, washable garments are a bikini with an integrated audio player, a shirt with its own mobile phone, a ski jacket that warns its wearer of hazards and a child's T-shirt with a built-in global positioning satellite (GPS) system. After two years of research and development at British laborato ...

'Smart' clothes raise stain shield USA Today; 3/11/2002; Theresa Howard What have your clothes done for you lately? Forget push-up bras and tummy-control pantyhose. This year's spring apparel lines are full of "smart" clothes. They feature functional, high-tech fabrics that wick away perspiration, repel stains, massage, moisturize and battle cellulite. The can-do clothes inspired by industrial fabrics and high-performance sportswear promise to make everyday pants, shirts and underwear work harder. Retailers and clothing brands are embracing the trend in hopes it will boost lagging sales and help brands stand out among products that have almost ... Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access »

'Smart' Clothes Sense Every Need By Larry O'Hanlon December 18, 2002 Discovery News You can't buy one this winter, but someday stores may be selling a jacket that senses your slightest chill and heats up before you even notice the cold. The "smart jacket" is just the latest invention in a burgeoning field of clothes that combine fabric with high-tech electronics. The clothes are being designed to do everything from monitor your heart and blood sugar, to calling for help if you get attacked ...

“Smart” Clothing Materials Could Lead to Synthetics with Biomedical Applications 11 Feb 05 Newswise What makes a nanocomposite material “smart”? Consider clothing that can detect the presence of chemical weapons, automatically seal its own pores, and then clean and decontaminate itself. Today the U.S. Department of Defense is funding research for fabric materials that do all these things and are also stronger, more durable, and lighter than current uniforms. Smart materials are becoming a r ...

The Age October 5, 2004 Wool may be part of a new type of clothing which adapts to changing temperatures to keep the wearer comfortable. Micro-technology used in the material allows it to let in air to cool a wearer when it is hot and shut out air when it is cold. The University of Bath and the London College of Fashion are jointly researching the material, which they think could be in everyday use within a few years. The project has been chosen as one of eight to represent UK science at ...

'Smart' fabrics to keep patients healthy Medical News Today March 16, 2005 Patients in the near future will use 'smart' fabrics to keep them healthy, thanks to a EU project that recently completed initial development of high tech clothing. The Wearable Health Care System (WEALTHY) IST project just completed 30 months of research and development to prototype technologies at the heart of smart fabrics. Smart fabrics incorporate functional fibres and yarns into the weave, allowing researchers ...

'Smart' hip could treat itself July 9, 2003 BBC News A replacement hip joint that could detect a bacterial infection and release antibiotic drugs is under development by scientists. They are hopeful that such a device could cut number of joint replacements that fail due to persistent infections. The joint would be able to tell an examining doctor whether it was under attack from bacteria, say researchers. Work has already started in the US to incorporate nanotechnology into artificial h ...

'Smart' hospital to improve care May 7, 2003 BBCNews The hospital of the future could have beds that monitor patients and drugs that warn you if you are taking the wrong pill. These are just some of the ideas that researchers in Denmark have come up with to improve the treatment of patients. The team at the Center for Pervasive Computing at Aarhus University have found that most computer hardware and software is unsuitable for use in hospitals. Instead, they are working on adapting the ...

'Smart' Jacket Warms, Lights Up at Night, Monitors Heart December 13, 2002 Newswise There are smart houses, smart cars and smart computers. Now get ready for smart clothes. At Cornell University that means a jacket that automatically heats and lights up when it is cold and dark and also contains a pulse monitor to measure activity level for joggers and walkers. "The miniaturization of electronics has led to the emerging field of intelligent clothing, which integrates functional clothing des ...

By David D. Haskell Published 4/11/2003 1:24 PM BOSTON, April 11 (UPI) -- Confident that U.S. combat troops in Iraq are uniformed in the best available materials, researchers are testing new "smart" textiles that would protect the war fighters while making them as "lethal as a tank." "We're always improving what's in the field," said Maurice N. Larrivee, a materials technology team leader at the Soldier Systems Center, the Army's research and development facility in the Boston suburb of Natic ...

'Solar cloth' offers moveable power Thursday, 23 May, 2002 BBC NEWS Textiles which incorporate solar cells could allow some travellers to dispense with batteries altogether, predict scientists. Researchers at the School of Textiles at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland say they may be able to produce fabrics carrying solar cells. These, they suggest, could be rolled up and carried to remote locations - perhaps to be used as a source of power for fireman or soldiers. However, the limited ...

'Techno' clothing hits high street BBC News Wednesday, 16 August, 2000 Techno-clothing could bring health benefits The world's first commercially available electronic clothing is about to go on sale in high streets across Europe. Clothes equipped with fully integrated computer networks have been designed and developed in a joint venture between clothing company Levi's and electronics company Philips, following three years of intensive research. The clothes, which could become the essenti ...

'This Is the Future of Medicine' December 22, 2000 By Ellen Licking BusinessWeek Online Blazing trails on a vast frontier called electronic care management Vivometrics, a Southern California startup, wants to put a shirt on your back. But the company's lightweight, stretchy garment is not your average muscle-T. Embedded in the fabric are four black bands equipped with electrodes and physiological sensors designed to record more than 40 vital signs, including fluid in the heart, breathing r ...

BBC News 29 July 2004 Tighter UK and European regulation over some aspects of nanotechnology -manipulation of molecules - is needed to ensure its long-term safety. A Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering report said that there was no need to ban nanoparticle production. But more formal research of them was "urgent". Nanoparticles should also be treated as "new chemicals", it said. Welcoming the report, science minister Lord Sainsbury said the government response would come by th ...

May. 17, 2004 Macon Telegraph By Gene Rector Telegraph Staff Writer ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE - Aircraft mechanics in the 116th Air Control Wing don't have to go by the office these days. They carry it with them - hung around their necks or strapped to their waist. Maintainers from the Joint STARS unit at Robins Air Force Base have been testing "wearable" wireless computers over the past several months, and they're finding that the 24-ounce devices open a new world of information access and mob ...

'Wrist Video' Gives Israeli Army an Edge March 4, 2005 By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press Writer ABCNews HOLON, Israel Mar 4, 2005 — Israeli troops are now sporting gear that Dick Tracy would be proud of: tiny video screens, worn on the wrist, which display video shot by unmanned airplanes. Similar screens have been in use for close to a year in the Israeli military's attack helicopters, helping pilots identify and strike Palestinian militants within seconds. The technology, which is als ...

M2 Presswire; 5/11/2004 Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » M2 PRESSWIRE-11 May 2004-Research and Markets: 109 separate end-use segments of Polyester in Technical Textiles and Nonwovens(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05112004 Research and Markets announces the addition of this new report entitled "Polyester in Technical Textiles and Nonwovens: World Market Forecasts to 2010" to its offerings. The report provides forecasts of end-use consumption by volume and value annually from 2000 to 2004 and at 5-yearly intervals from 1995 to 2010 at 12 application areas, as defined by Techtextil: Agrotech Buildtech Clo...

1D selection of 2D objects in head-worn displays By Juha Lehikoinen and Mika Röykkee, A1 Nokia Research Center, P.O. Box 100, 33721 Tampere, Finland Volume 7, Number 1 May 2003 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. Abstract: In current desktop user interfaces, selection is usually accomplished easily with a mouse or a similar two-dimensional locator. In wearable computing, however, controlling two dimens ...

Read the Full Article, Get a FREE Trial for instant access » Design News; 6/17/2002; Field, Karen Smaller components and chips, and new design tools and aids are helping design engineers pack more features into devices and systems. Here's a quick round-up of how your designs can profit from what's new and in view in electronic products, as well as hints and tips useful for your upcoming design projects I -1- Food for thought Hungry for knowledge in image processing? Then Bob's Brain Snacks, offered at Coreco Imaging's website, www.imaging.com, may satisfy your cravings. These whimsical tutorial tidbits explain image-processing concepts, such as noise r...

300 years of Ten Cate 26 October 2004 World Textile Publications Ltd. Technical textiles specialist Royal Ten Cate of the Netherlands is marking its 300th anniversary with the introduction of new patented technology for intelligent and interactive textiles. During the Royal Ten Cate Innovation Forum in Amsterdam to mark the anniversary this month, Loek de Vries, chairman of the executive board, provided details of the company's latest technology involving coating fabrics to give them specifi ...

3D Digitization of a Hand-Held Object with a Wearable Vision Sensor Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg ISSN: 0302-9743 Subject: Computer Science Volume 3058 / 2004 Title: Computer Vision in Human-Computer Interaction: ECCV 2004 Workshop on HCI, Prague, Czech Republic, May 16, 2004. Proceedings Editors: Nicu Sebe, Michael S. Lew, Thomas S. Huang ISBN: 3-540-22012-7 DOI: 10.1007/b97917 Chapter: pp. 129 - 141 Online Date: May 2004 Abstract It is a common human behavior to ...

3GSM: Entertainment a major theme of 3GSM World Congress February 20, 2004 IDG News Service wireless.itworld.com With several mobile phone manufacturers recently launching "designer" models, it's little wonder that the organizers of the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, have included a fashion show in this year's event. The show, intended to demonstrate how wearable technology can be fun and fashionable as well as functional, promises to be a far cry from the suit-and-tie image that th ...

3M Intros Better Embedded Capacitance Material 2/16/2005 Reed Business Information Austin, Texas-based 3M unveiled today what it says is an improved embedded capacitance material with a dielectric thickness of 8 microns and a capacitance density over 11 nanofarads / square inch. The company claims it is among the thinnest and highest capacitance density materials available for embedding planar capacitance in circuit boards that fabricators and OEMs can use without a license. Using embedded ...

Technology Review By Joe Chung July/August 2004 genius is 99 percent perspiration (and 1 percent inspiration), then entrepreneurs surely walk the fine line that separates the Einsteins of the world from those poor sweaty souls who practice yoga in saunas. The archetypal startup is the lone inventor in a basement pursuing his or her passion with relentless energy. Somewhere between the original spark of genius and a successfully profitable enterprise, though, lies a maturation process that pi ...

LinuxDevices.com by Ralf Ackermann Background A "second generation" iPAQ-based wearable computer running Linux has been developed as part of the ongoing non-commercial research efforts of the Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM) at Darmstadt University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. In the KOM lab, we are dealing with several aspects of Network Multimedia Communication. I have for some time been developing a platform for use in experimenting with using mobile systems as clients for IP t ...

A bag for weather forecasts and distracted people October 21, 2004 near near future The Object-Based Media group at the MIT is developing a revolutionary system of computerised fabric patches called BYOB (see the PDF of "Build Your Own Bag".) Each patch contains a functional unit made of a microprocessor and memory plus either a radio transceiver, a sensor, a microphone, batteries or a display. The patches are joined with a modified Velcro enabling electrical and physical connections. The ...

Public release date: 20-Oct-2004 IMAGINE a handbag that warns you if you are about to forget your umbrella or wallet, and which you can later turn into a scarf that displays today's pollution levels. Or how about creating a wall hanging that glows if someone tries to use your home's wireless internet connection? All these bizarre objects could soon be possible thanks to a system of computerised fabric patches developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Each patch contai ...

New Scientist (reported by EurekAlert!) 20-Oct-2004 By Celester Biever IMAGINE a handbag that warns you if you are about to forget your umbrella or wallet, and which you can later turn into a scarf that displays today's pollution levels. Or how about creating a wall hanging that glows if someone tries to use your home's wireless internet connection? All these bizarre objects could soon be possible thanks to a system of computerised fabric patches developed by engineers at the Massachusetts In ...

A Battery That Can Take a Bullet Chris Oakes Wired News 03:00 AM Aug. 03, 1999 PT The US Army likes to shoot batteries. "We actually take them and shoot them and see what response we get," said Colonel Bruce Jette, project manager for the US Army's Soldier Systems Center Land Warrior project. Any computer battery has to meet stringent requirements for weight, performance, and battery life. If it's for the US Army, it also has to be bulletproof. Survivability is key to designing battery ...

Wired News Apr. 13, 2004 By Amit Asaravala Whether diving deep in the ocean, battling an inferno or performing maneuvers in space, specialists trained to operate in extreme conditions know that keeping track of vital signs can be a matter of life and death. That's why engineers at NASA have spent the past three years developing a small device that can report on its wearer's health. Like the black boxes in cockpits that record an airplane's flight information, the Crew Physiological Observat ...

A Black Box for People By: Karen Miller Science@NASA April 7, 2004 When planes have a problem, analysts can usually figure out what went wrong. They simply check the plane's "black box," which records exactly what was happening to the plane at the time. Now, there's something similar for people. Under the leadership of Stanford University professor Greg Kovacs and engineers Carsten Mundt (NASA/Ames) and Kevin Montgomery (Stanford), researchers have developed a device that is like a black ...

A Case Study in Embedded-System Design: The VuMan 2 Wearable Computer By Asim Smailagic, Daniel P. Siewiorek You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract The development of an embedded-computer system with a visual interface is described. The authors detail the use of a target system simulator and a prototype printed circuit board (PCB), which facilitated a concurrent approach to the design of the hardware, sof ...

A Case Study in Environmentally Conscious Design: Wearable Computers Rebecca Lankey, Heather MacLean and Andrea Sterdis, Green Design Institute Carnegie Mellon University Introduction As environmental issues become increasingly important to the public, product life cycle studies are being considered in many industries. The computer industry, in particular, has been under scrutiny for environmentally conscious design. Portable systems have their own unique issues, such as batteries, which a ...

A Case Study: Using The Wearable Computer In The Construction Industry by Scott Fuller, Zhihui Ding, and Anoop Sattineni Building and Fire Research Laboratory's Fire Research Division at NIST ABSTRACT: This paper aims to explore the prospective applications of cuttingedge technology like wearable computers in construction industry. The current research, application areas and future trends of wearable computing investigated. The first-hand experience of the authors through a well-designed ...

A Catalyst for Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing M. Satyanarayanan - Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Research, Pittsburgh DS Online The convergence of wireless communication and portable computers is happening before us today. Hardly a week passes without an announcement by some major player in this arena about technology, deployment, or a new strategic partnership. Well-attended conferences and workshops attest to the vibrancy of the research community in this area. Something big is cle ...

A Collaborative Wearable System with Remote Sensing By Martin Bauer, Timo Heiber, Gerd Kortuem, Zary Segall , University of Oregon 2ND. International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 19 - 20, 1998 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: This paper presents a collaborative wearable system based on the notion of remote sensing. Remote sensing lets users of wearable or stationary computers perceive a remote environment through the sensors of a remote wearable computer. We describe a concrete system with remote sensing capability that is designed to enhance the communication and cooperation of highly mobile computer technicians.

A Compact Wearable Sensor Package for Clinical Gait Monitoring By Stacy J Morris and Joseph A Paradiso, MIT Media Lab January 31, 2003 Offspring Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 7-15 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Introduction We have developed a compact, wireless, wearable shoe-mounted sensor package that is designed to provide continuous and real time monitoring of gait for clinical biomotion analysis. This paper discusses the initial design of our hardware, consisting ...

A Comparative Investigation into Two Pointing Systems for Use with Wearable Computers While Mobile By Alan Chamberlain, Roy Kalawsky, Loughborough University, UK Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04) October 31 - November 03, 2004 Arlington, Virginia You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Target selection is a task carried out by many wearable computer users. Conventional desk ...

A context visualization model for wearable computers By Antti Aaltonen, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Context aware systems observe the user's current context and apply this information to the user's benefit. When implementing context awareness, several issues need to be considered and this paper concentrates on presenting the context information to the user. The key components needed to construct the context are identified and a model which allows using different visualization techniques for the context is proposed. In order to make the model more concrete, four use cases are presented, and the expandability of the model is discussed.

A Context-Based Document System for Wearable Computers By Kent Lyons1, Thad Starner1, Lonnie Harvel2 , Georgia Institute of Technology 1 College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332 0250 2 School of Electrical Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA Fourth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'00) October 18 - 21, 2000 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: With the continuous availability ...

A CSCW System for Distributed Search/Collection Tasks Using Wearable Computers By Tetsuo Sumiya, Keio University, Akifumi Inoue, Tokyo University of Technology, Sadayuki Shiba, Junya Kato, Hiroshi Shigeno, Kenichi Okada, Keio University Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'04) December 02 - 03, 2004 Lake District National Park, United Kingdom You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased onli ...

A current development: Electronic plastics 14 April 2004 ISA A new plastic that conducts electricity and easily accommodates chemical attachments to create new materials may be simpler to make. Oligotron polymers consist of tiny bits of material that possess a conducting center and two nonconducting end pieces, said officials at Wheat Ridge, Colo.–based TDA Research, which developed the plastic. The end pieces allow the plastic bits to dissolve in solvents and accommodate specialized molec ...

A Design Research Program for Textiles and Computational Technology Submitted to Nordic Textile Journal, Autumn 2001 Lars Hallnäs, Linda Melin and Johan Redström PLAY Research Studio, Interactive Institute1 Abstract Textiles and computational technology share a common background in the early days of automation and industrial production. Today, we see a new opportunity for these two, by now, rather disparate areas to be joined in the search for new design spaces for everyday things. It i ...

By Jay Lyman NewsFactor Innovation March 18, 2002 2:41PM Poma, which features an integrated MP3 player, may be the first consumer PC from Xybernaut, but spokesperson Mike Binco told NewsFactor the company has years of experience making wearable computers for enterprise uses. More and more innovation is going into mobile computers, but Xybernaut's (Nasdaq: XYBR) personal optical mobile assistant, Poma, takes a different tack by putting the desktop environment itself on the go. Poma is a ...

A Digital Doctor On Your Wrist Volume 2, Issue 2 - Feb/March 2002 Berkeley Lab Notes, College of Engineering, University of Berkeley Tomorrow's wristwatches may tell you much more than the time. Department of Bioengineering chair Thomas F. Budinger is developing a wrist-worn biomonitoring alert system that will not only transmit a digital call for help if you've fallen but also detect when it's time for a nap or if your "last meal was cooked in old fat, like a fast food hamburger." As par ...

A Digital Nudge for Cocktail Conversation Prototype Joins Wearable Computer, Speech Recognition to Aid Memory By Francine Vida ABC News July 26 How often do you find yourself asking the person you met last week this question: "What's your name again?" Cutting Edge With the development of a wearable communication device, which uses the latest capabilities of speech recognition, you may one day get help in remembering those names. The prototype, called a Personal Awareness Assistant, was ...

PC Magazine November 12, 2002 By Alexandra Robbins Head-mounted displays, which project miragelike computing screens, have yet to be runaway hits. That's partly because they make you look like a telemarketer wearing a helmet about as inconspicuous as a pair of fake antlers. Massachusetts-based MicroOptical Corp. is taking a new approach, fitting projectable-display technology into standard eyeglass frames. At last month's International Symposium on Wearable Computers in Seattle, MicroOptical ...

A Feasibility Study of Yarns and Fibers with Annexed Electronic Functions: The ARIANNE Project 2004 A. Bonfiglio A1, D. de Rossi A2, T. Kirstein A3, I. Locher A3, F. Mameli A1, R. Paradiso A4, G. Vozzi A2 Studies in Health Technology and Informatics IOS Press Volume: Volume 108 / 2004 Pages: 324 - 329 Editors: Andreas Lymberis, Danilo de Rossi ISBN: 1-58603-449-9 A. Bonfiglio A1, D. de Rossi A2, T. Kirstein A3, I. Locher A3, F. Mameli A1, R. Paradiso A4, G. Vozzi A2 A1 Dept. ...

A Feasible Low-Power Augmented-Reality Terminal By Johan Pouwelse, Koen Langendoen, Henk Sips, Delft University of Technology 2nd IEEE and ACM International Workshop on Augmented Reality October 20 - 21, 1999, San Francisco, California You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract This paper studies the requirements for a truly wearable augmented-reality (AR) terminal. The requirements translate into a generic ...

A Few Suggestions January 27, 2003 By Peter N. Glaskowsky InStat MDR, Vol 17, Issue 04 I wasn't entirely forthcoming in my editorial last month (see MPR 12/30/02-02, "Toward a Brighter Tomorrow") when I declined to name specific new ways for semiconductors to add value to our lives in areas such as clothing, food, housing, and furniture. In fact, I can point to a few applications that could double the total world market for semiconductors—from tiny sensors to complex microprocessors. Some ...

A Field Usability Evaluation of a Wearable System By Jane Siegel and Malcolm Bauer, Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University 1st International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '97) Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: This empirical field study describes the wearable system, the study method used, and summarizes the experiences of aircraft maintenance specialists who participated in a field usability evaluation conducted at th ...

A Flexible, Privacy-Preserving Authentication Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments By Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Anand Ranganathan, Roy Campbel, and l M. Dennis Mickunas, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops 2002 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The proliferation of smart gadgets, appliances, mobile devices, PDAs and sens ...

A Flexible, Privacy-Preserving Authentication Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments 2002 By Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Anand Ranganathan, Roy Campbell, and M. Dennis Mickunas, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The proliferation of smart gadgets, appliances, mobile devices, PDAs and sensors has enabled the construction of ubiquitous computing environments, transforming regular ...

A flurry of developments in nanocomposite materials January 2005 Composites World Nanocomposite research continues to advance, as evidenced by several recent announcements. The first involves new technology for spinning multiwalled carbon nanotubes into yarns. Electrically and thermally conductive and extremely flexible, these yarns could be used for structural composites as well as "smart" textiles for clothing or ballistic armor, says a work group composed of Dr. Ken Atlinson (Commonwealth ...

A full-body tactile sensor suit using electrically conductive fabric and strings Meeting Date: 11/04/1996 -11/08/1996 Publication Date: 4-8 Nov 1996 Inaba, M. Hoshino, Y. Nagasaka, K. Ninomiya, T. Kagami, S. Inoue, H. Dept. of Mech.-Inf., Tokyo Univ.; IEEE Xplore This paper appears in: Intelligent Robots and Systems '96, IROS 96, Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Meeting Date: 11/04/1996 -11/08/1996 Publication Date: 4-8 Nov 1996 Location: Osaka , ...

Wired News 28 Jan 2002 By Katie Dean Instant messaging has improved communications for the deaf so significantly it's been called a "godsend" by one. Now, a glove that can translate American Sign Language into text may improve communications even further. Eighteen-year-old Ryan Patterson designed a sign language translator glove that works by sensing the hand movements of the sign language alphabet, then wirelessly transmitting the data to a portable device that displays the text on-screen. ...

A Headset-Based Minimized Wearable Computer May/June 2001 By Soichiro Matsushita IEEE Intelligent Systems You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. A low-power headset with a sensory system and a short-range wireless radio transceiver can become a highly context-aware peripheral device, but to avoid affecting the user as much as possible, the amount of components should be minimized. A combination of low-power motion ...

Note: You will need to copy and paste the URL in a browser window to view the abstract online. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_aset=B-WA-A-A-AD-MsSAYVA-UUW-AUEEUZDAAU-AUEZZVDEAU-ZVYECWDZE-AD-U&_rdoc=14&_fmt=summary&_udi=B6V06-3TXCNFG-6&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1998&_cdi=5638&_orig=search&_st=13&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=806bfafbb54a524ecef9548aaecd43f7 A hierarchical virtual environment for a machine fault diagnostic application ...

A high-tech helping hand for the sight-impaired June 03, 2004 By ROB HARRILL University WEEK, University of Washington What do you get when you cross a computer and a seeing-eye dog? That’s easy, according to a group of student researchers at the University of Washington’s Human Interface Technology Laboratory: a first-of-its-kind Wearable Low Vision Aid. And, they add, the digital helper has distinct advantages over a canine: no feeding, no drooling and best of all, no need to worry abo ...

A Hybrid Sign Language Recognition System By Van R. Culver, University of Colorado Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04) October 31 - November 03, 2004 Arlington, Virginia You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract 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 words. The most accurate feature vector set included all available camera and glove features.

A Layered Approach to Wearable Textile Networks By K. Van Laerhoven, N. Villar & H.-W. Gellersen Department of Computing, Lancaster University, UK In Proceedings of the IEE Eurowearable 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The integration of digital components into clothing is becoming an increasingly important segment in wearable computing research. The first indications for this trend are the incorporation of existing mobile technologies, such as ...

A little piece of (silicon) cortex by Sunny Bains November 1998 OE Reports 179 The Army has just funded research on a newly designed battlefield computer, one that may eventually make the kinds of judgements that are normally considered uniquely human. If it works, the new "Silicon Brain Architecture" could allow a small, low-powered machine to receive and understand lots of different kinds of sensory data, consider the situation based on experience, and act. What is most surprising about t ...

A look at the future of stacked die integrated circuits by Keith Gurnett & Tom Adams Military & Aerospace Electronics April, 2003 The terms "stacked die" and "stacked chips" have become very lively buzzwords within the electronics community — so much so that the notoriety of these concepts can obscure the reality. Stacked configurations are in production, but there are few, if any, military or aerospace applications to date. There are plenty of potential applications — signal processin ...

Note: You will need to copy and paste the URL in a browser window to view the abstract online. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T04-4B9D9TS-2&_coverDate=02%2F15%2F2004&_alid=207754523&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=4852&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=4a5daa09a91780bc22cd2d24e3af755b A low power multichannel analog front end for portable neural signal recordings. By Iyad Obeid, a, Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, a, b, c, d and ...

A machine that thinks and listens - MIT researchers find a way of making a wearable computer aware of auditory cues Nov 30, 1998 Electronics Times LookSmart A group working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab has found a way to use auditory cues to help a wearable computer determine where it is as the user moves around. The goal is to build a wearable computer to react to real-world events so that it does not attempt to give the user information at inappropriate t ...

A Man-Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet February 19, 2005 Sources: Jim Nash, InformationWeek, February 16, 2005; Quantum3D website In this short article, InformationWeek writes that "two sexy technologies that flamed out five years ago -- wearable computers and artificial reality -- are combined in a new training-development system" for the military. This system, developed by Quantum3D, includes a binocular head-mounted OLED display and head-leg-weapon motion-tracking systems, in ...

MEASUREMENT SCIENCE REVIEW, Volume 3, Section 2, 2003 1A. Tura, 2M. Badanai, 2D. Longo, 2L. Quareni 1Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Research Council, Padova, Italy, 2QUBIsoft S.r.l., Padova, Italy Email: tura@isib.pd.cnr.it Abstract. A medical wearable device has been developed within a project co-funded by the European Community (Karma2 – IST 2001-32320), whose aim is to create a network for the management of Home Care activities in brain-injured children. The device can mea ...

A Menu Interface for Wearable Computing By Gábor Blaskó and Steven Feiner, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 6th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2002) Seattle, WA, 7-10 October, 2002, p164-165 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We present a menu interface designed primarily for headworn displays that have a small field-of-view. To support interaction with a hierarchical menu, we logically div ...

A Method of Key Input with Two Mice October 08 - 09, 2001 By Satoshi Nakamura, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University Fifth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'01) IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Recently, due to remarkable advancements in computer technology, small mobile computers such as PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and palmtop compute ...

A Mobile Computing System for Testing Wearable Augmented Reality User Interface Design May 1999 By Tom Sephton, Jon Black, Gaber El Naggar, Anthony Fong, Multimedia Graduate Program, California State University, Hayward ISWC 1999 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract This paper describes a mobile augmented reality system developed to test user interface designs appropriate for future wearable computers. As the graphics, sound and processing performance o ...

A Model for Human Interruptability: Experimental Evaluation and Automatic Estimation from Wearable Sensors By Nicky Kern, Stavros Antifakos, Bernt Schiele, Adrian Schwaninger 8th International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC), Washington DC, USA, November 2004 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract: For the estimation of user interruptability in wearable and mobile settings, we propose in in [8] to distinguish between the users' personal and social i ...

A multichannel telemetry system for single unit neural recordings. Obeid I, Nicolelis MA, Wolf PD Medline J Neurosci Methods 2004 Feb 133:33-8 Abstract We present the design, testing, and evaluation of a 16 channel wearable telemetry system to facilitate multichannel single unit recordings from freely moving test subjects. Our design is comprised of (1) a 16-channel analog front end board to condition and sample signals derived from implanted neural electrodes, (2) a digital board for proce ...

A Multidisciplinary Course in Rapid Prototyping of Wearable Computers Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education (MSE '97) Daniel P. Siewiorek, Asim Smailagic Engineering Design Research Center Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 IEEE Abstract The paper describes a multidisciplinary, systems building course at Carnegie Mellon University. Over the last eight semesters that the course has been taught, teams of undergraduate and gr ...

A Natural Feature-Based 3D Object Tracking Method for Wearable Augmented Reality By Takashi Okuma, Columbia University / AIST, Takeshi Kurata, University of Washington / AIST, and Katsuhiko Sakaue AIST In Proc. The 8th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC'04) in Kawasaki, Japan, pp.451-456 (2004) Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract In this paper, we describe a novel natural feature based 3-D object tracking method. Our method dete ...

A New Affect-Perceiving Interface and Its Application to Personalized Music Selection By Jennifer Healey, Rosalind Picard and Frank Dabek, MIT Media Lab 1998 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces PUI'98 Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract A wearable computer that perceives and responds to the wearer's affective state offers a new kind of perceptual interface. Instead of asking the user to continuously select preferences from a menu, the affective wearab ...

InfoSync World News By Jørgen Sundgot 19 September 2003 Based on magnetic communications, a new wireless headset from foneGEAR looks set to give Bluetooth a run for its money. Aura Communications, a fabless semiconductor company, and foneGEAR has announced what the two companies claim is the world’s first universal wireless headset based on magnetic communications technology. Using Aura Communications' LibertyLink technology, the foneGEAR Cord Free headset uses an enhanced form of 'near fiel ...

A New Sense of Place?' Mobile 'Wearable' Information and Communications Technology Devices and the Geographies of Urban Childhood August 2003 OWAIN JONES, MORRIS WILLIAMS , CONSTANCE FLEURIOT Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, Volume 1, Number 2 / August 2003 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: In this paper we describe a new research initiative, 'A New Sense of Place?', which involves the ...

USA Today September 20 2004 By David Koenig GRAPEVINE, Texas — Kurt Ward tilted his head, fingered a keypad at his side, and a schematic drawing of a Corvette engine appeared on a tiny glass screen hanging in front of his right eye. With a click, Ward could zoom in for a better look or change the page, while literally keeping his other eye on the engine block. For about six weeks, Ward has tested the gadget — a 28-ounce wireless computer worn on the belt, and a screen attached to a baseba ...

08 Sep 2000 Source: just-style.com Article Summary: Merging fashion and technology to create workwear for the digital age, Dutch electronics giant Philips NV and the European division of Levi Strauss & Co have joined forces with Italian designer Massimo Osti to produce the world's first commercial range of wearable electronics. Niki Tait looks at the ICD+ range. Subscription required to view complete article.

Posted on Sun, Sep. 19, 2004 DAVID KOENIG Associated Press GRAPEVINE, Texas - Kurt Ward tilted his head, fingered a keypad at his side, and a schematic drawing of a Corvette engine appeared on a tiny glass screen hanging in front of his right eye. With a click, Ward could zoom in for a better look or change the page, while literally keeping his other eye on the engine block. For about six weeks, Ward has tested the gadget - a 28-ounce wireless computer worn on the belt, and a screen attache ...

A novel bluetooth antenna on flexible substrate for smart clothing January 1, 2001 By Salonen-Pekka; Keskilammi-Mikko; Rantanen-Jaana; Sydanheimo-Lauri IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Summary: The development of wearable computer systems and smart clothing has been rapid. They are coming more and more lightweight and quite soon we will see a wide range of unobtrusive wearable and ubiquitous computing equipment integrated to into our everyday wear. Rapid progress ...

A Novel Circularly Polarized Textile Antenna for Wearable Applications M. Klemm, I. Locher and G. Tröster, Proc. of 7th European Microwave Week, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pages 137-140, Amsterdam, Nederlands, Oct. 11-14, 2004 ABSTRACT — A novel circularly polarized (CP) textile patch antenna is presented in this paper. To our knowledge, it is the first textile antenna with circular polarization and for the first time, we show that more sophisticated design methods are also applicable to flexible ...

A novel implantable cardiac telemetry system for studying atrial fibrillation August 11, 2004 By Kityee Au-Yeung, Chad R Johnson and Patrick D Wolf, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA Physiological Measurement Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in clinical practice. Most in vivo experimental research on AF is performed in a surgical setting, on animals instr ...

A Novel Wearable System for Capturing User View Images Title: Computer Vision in Human-Computer Interaction: ECCV 2004 Workshop on HCI, Prague, Czech Republic, May 16, 2004. Proceedings Hirotake Yamazoe1, 2, Akira Utsumi1, Nobuji Tetsutani1 and Masahiko Yachida2 Springer Abstract In this paper, we propose a body attached system to capture the experience of a person in sequence as audio/visual information. The proposed system consists of two cameras (one IR (infra-red) camera and one wide- ...

A Panorama-based Method of Personal Positioning and Orientation and Its Real-time Applications for Wearable Computers October 08 - 09, 2001 By Masakatsu Kourogi, Takeshi Kurata, Katsuhiko Sakaue., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Fifth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'01) IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract In this pape ...

A paradigm shift: alternative interaction techniques for use with mobile & wearable devices By Joanna Lumsden, NRC - IIT e-Business, 46 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, Canada Stephen Brewster, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow U.K. IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference, 2003 ACM Digital Library You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text. ABSTRACT Desktop user interface design originates from the fact that users are ...

Friday, May 24, 2002 The future is something that we are all curious about. A cricketer wants to know whether he’ll score a century in the next match, a farmer wants to know whether it’ll rain substantially to cultivate his crops and so on. We don’t have any predictions for the former or latter but we do have some predictions for people in enterprise computing. A school of thought says that the future of computing is an intelligent computing fabric. What is an intelligent computing fabric ...

A Peer-To-Peer Approach for Resolving RFIDs 2003 By Christian Decker, Michael Leuchtner, Michael Beigl, TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany Ubicomp 2003 Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. ABSTRACT We present a system using a Peer-to-Peer network for resolving associations of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagged objects to their virtual presence. A query, which consists of an identification string, is sent t ...

Note: You will need to copy and paste the URL in a browser window to view the abstract online. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_aset=B-WA-A-B-EE-MsSAYZA-UUA-AUEEACVYWW-AUEZDBCZWW-ZCACCUADA-EE-U&_rdoc=3&_fmt=summary&_udi=B6V0D-4DDXW5F-2&_coverDate=09%2F28%2F2004&_cdi=5644&_orig=search&_st=13&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ba6e1ffb95a8e83e0b331076cdcdd977 A platform for wearable physiological computing By Astro Teller, BodyMedia, I ...

A Preliminary Comparison of Body wearable Computers to Modern Audio Equipment in a Microgravity Environment By Matthew Dooris1, Michael Moorman2, Bryan Gregory2, Marilyn Brown2, and Heather Wright3 1University of Texas Houston, 2Saint Leo University St. Leo,FL, 3University of Georgia Athens GA January 2000 Volume 32 Number 1 SIGCHI Bulletin Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract The capabilities of body wearable computers (BWC) and modern audio equipment ...

A Procedure for Developing Intuitive and Ergonomic Gesture Interfaces for HCI Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg ISSN: 0302-9743 Subject: Computer Science Volume 2915 / 2004 Title: Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction: 5th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2003, Genova, Italy, April 15-17, 2003, Selected Revised Papers Editors: Antonio Camurri, Gualtiero Volpe ISBN: 3-540-21072-5 DOI: 10.1007/b95740 Chapter: pp. 409 - 420 Online Date: February 2004 ...

A Proposed Peritoneal-Based Wearable Artificial Kidney By M. Roberts, D.B.N. Lee Home Hemodial Int, Vol. 3, 65_67, 1999 Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda, California, U.S.A. Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Ideally, an artificial kidney should simulate the normal kidney in providing continuous metabolic control, removal of toxins, and unrestricted patient freedom. Of the dialysis procedures available, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis ...

A prototype network embedded in textile fabric Kenneth Mackenzie College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Eric Hudson College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Drew Maule College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Sundaresan Jayaraman School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Sungmee Park ACM - Association for Computing Machinery 2001 Full text Pdf (320 ...

A Prototyping Environment for Investigating Context Aware Wearable Applications Melekam Tsegaye1, Shaun Bangay, Alfredo Terzoli 2005 Rhodes University Abstract In this paper we introduce the concept of a contextaware, wearable application prototyping environment, which can be used to support research into new wearable applications. We present an initial specification and implementation for such an environment. We also show how to model different types of sensors and present an example cont ...

A Proxy Based Architecture for Secure Networked Wearable Devices By Todd Mill,s Matthew Burnside, John Ankcorn & Srinivas Devadas, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract We describe the software and hardware architecture for a wearable communicator and a secure protocol for communication between it and its software proxy. The proxy runs on a fast computer so it is capable of implementing sophisticated cryptog ...

A rapid prototyping software infrastructure for user interfaces in ubiquitous augmented reality Christian Sandor1 and Gudrun Klinker1 (1) Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany Received: 1 June 2004 Accepted: 22 October 2004 Published online: 11 January 2005 Abstract Recent user interface concepts, such as multimedia, multimodal, wearable, ubiquitous, tangible, or augmented-reality-based (AR) interfaces, each cover different approaches that are all ne ...

A Real-Time Augmented Reality System for Industrial Tele-Training Publication Date: Jan 2003 Pierre Boulanger, Nicolas D. Georganas, Xiaowei Zhong, Peiran Liu Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 5013, p. 1-13, Videometrics VII; Sabry F. El-Hakim, Armin Gruen, James S. Walton; Eds. Abstract Augmented Reality (AR) is a departure from standard virtual reality in a sense that it allows users to see computer generated virtual objects superimposed over the real world through the use of see-throu ...

A Resource-Adaptive Mobile Navigation System Jörg Baus, Christian Kray, Antonio Krüger, Wolfgang Wahlster Collaborative Research Center 378 University of Saarbrücken International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI02, January 13-16, 2002 Abstract The design of mobile navigation systems adapting to limited resources will be an important future challenge. Since several different means of transportation typically have to be combined in order to reach a destination, it must be ensu ...

A Rhetoric of Mobility, Interactivity, and Beingness for Wearable Augmented Reality Interfaces Isabel Pedersen University of Waterloo, Canada This project explores the conceptual design of an emerging medium, wearable computers and augmented reality (“wearable AR”). Specifically, it deals with how wearable AR materializes as a medium that promises human-centricity but does not strategize design in order to meet this promise. Despite the fact that the discourse of wearable computers claims muc ...

A Robust Hand Tracking and Gesture Recognition Method for Wearable Visual Interfaces and Its Applications By Third By Yang Liu, Yunde Jia, Beijing Institute of Technology Third International Conference on Image and Graphics (ICIG'04) December 2004 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Gesture-based interface is one of the most promising modes of human-computer interaction for wearable computers. This pap ...

A Robust Hand Tracking for Gesture-Based Interaction of Wearable Computers By Yang Liu, Yunde Jia, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'04) October 31 - November 03, 2004 Arlington, Virginia You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract Hand gesture-based interface is one of the most promising modes of natural and fluid human-computer interaction t ...

A Scalable and Provably Secure Hash-Based RFID Protocol March 08 - 12, 2005 Gildas Avoine, Philippe Oechslin, EPFL Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOMW'05) You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. The biggest challenge for RFID technology is to provide benefits without threatening the privacy of consumers. Many solutions have been suggested but almost as man ...

ZDNet October 25, 2004 By Peter Cochrane Commentary--Manufacturers of hard drive storage technologies are having a ball. Never before has market demand been so insatiable or the growth curve so fast. Everything is being digitized faster than we can cope and as a result storage drive capacities are growing and prices are falling. What is the root cause? Legislation, regulation, security and entertainment. Every major company is now saving all paper and electronic documents, including emai ...

Business Week OCTOBER 16, 2002 NEWSMAKER Q&A A Seamless Style for Wearable Computers Forget clunky, cyborg-like costumes. Chipmaker Infineon's Stefan Jung says the devices it makes blend right into the clothing With keyboards attached to their sleeves, tiny displays mounted to their glasses, and wires wrapped around their waists, models at the International Symposium on Wearable Computing in Seattle looked more like cyborgs than walking ads for the latest in portable electronics. Alas, mo ...

A Sensate Liner for Personnel Monitoring Applications By Eric J. Lind, NRaD, Sundaresan Jayaraman, Sungmee Park, Rangaswamy Rajamanickam, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Eisler, George Burghart, Mission Research Corporation; Tony McKee, ILC Dover 1st International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '97) October 13 - 14, 1997 You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: This program develops and de ...

A Service Backplane for E-Textile Applications By Mark Jones Tom Martin and Zahi Nakad Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg VA Please visit the website to view the article in its entirety. Abstract E-textile technology is rapidly progressing allowing for the development of truly wearable computers as well as very large scale computing textiles. Efficient development of applications on e-textiles will require significant software services support. This paper analyz ...

A shoulder pad insert vibrotactile display By Aaron Toney, Lucy Dunne, Bruce H. Thomas, Susan P. Ashdown, Wearable Computer Laboratory, School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia 2003 Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract Touch is the most intimate and inherently private human sense and provides the potential for discrete, low social weight human computer interaction. ...

A Simple Architecture for Embedded Web Servers Miguel Domingues Universidade do Minho 4710 - 057 Braga, Portugal mig@idite-minho.pt Embedded Systems ICCA’03 Abstract. Older technologies can still play an important role in embedded systems. Complex applications such as a Web server can be embedded implemented, with some restrictions and assumptions, and still be efficient for current industry demands. This communication makes an incursion into the hardware architecture behind an embedded W ...

A Small Planar Inverted-F Antenna for Wearable Applications By Pekka Salonen, Lauri Sydänheimo, Mikko Keskilammi, Markku Kivikoski , Tampere University of Technology 3rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 18 - 19, 1999 IEEE Computer Society You can view the abstract online. A subscription is required to view the full text or it can be purchased online. Abstract: Small printed antennas will replace the commonly used normal-mode helical antennas of mobile handsets an ...

A Source Coding and Modulation Method for Power Saving and Interference Reduction in DS-CDMA Sensor Network Systems By H. Harry Asada, Principle Investigator, and Chun-Hung Liu, Graduate Research Assistant, MIT d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technolog Progress Report No.3-2, April 1, 2001 – September 30, 2001 MIT Home Automation and Healthcare Consortium Please visit the web site to view the article in its entirety. Abstract A source coding and modulation technique for ...

A spray-on computer is way to do IT FIONA MACGREGOR EDUCATION REPORTER Edinburgh Evening News Thu 14 Aug 2003 SPRAY-ON computers the size of a grain of sand are set to transform information technology across the world thanks to pioneering research at Edinburgh University. Scientists at the institution have just been awarded a £1.3 million grant to develop the "ubiquitous computing" technology which uses tiny semiconductor specks that can sense, compute and communicate without wires. The ...

A Strategic Approach to New Product Development in Smart Clothing By Busayawan Ariyatum*, Dr. Ray Holland** * Design Researcher, Design Department Brunel University Runnymede Campus Egham Surrey TW20 0JZ UK, busayawan. ariyatum@ brunel. ac. uk ** Director of the Design Master Courses, Design Department Brunel University Runnymede Campus Egham Surrey TW20 0JZ UK, ray. holland@ brunel. ac. uk Please visit the website to read the article in its entirety. Abstract: Smart clothing represen ...

Journal of Composite Materials, Vol. 36, No. 4, 401-421 (2002) DOI: 10.1177/0021998302036004171