Emerging Trends - Body Wearable Computers
Wearable computing facilitates a new form of human-computer interaction comprising a small body-worn component that is always on and always ready and accessible. This new computational framework differs from that of hand held devices, laptop computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs). The “always ready'' capability leads to a new form of synergy between human and computer, characterized by long-term adaptation through constancy of user-interface. A wearable computer is a computer that is intertwined into the personal space of the user, controlled by the user, and is always on and always accessible. Most notably, it is a device that is always with the user, and into which the ...
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the body wearable computer field. To avoid confusion and changing the meanings of Steve’s definitions I included them in their entirety from Steve Mann’s Keynote Address, 1998.
“Constancy, the computer runs continuously, and is “always ready” to interact with the user. Unlike a hand-held device, laptop computer, or PDA, it does not need to be opened up and turned on prior to use. The signal flow from human to computer, and computer to human, runs continuously to provide a constant user-interface.”
“Augmentation, traditional computing paradigms are based on the notion that computing is the primary task. Wearable computing, however, is based on the notion that computing is NOT the primary task. The assumption of wearable computing is that the user will be doing something else at the same time as doing the computing. Thus the computer should serve to augment the intellect, or augment the senses.
“Mediation, unlike hand held devices, ...
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like desktop computers, can help us protect our privacy with programs like Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the unprotected void of these systems is the space between us and them or today known as the Internet. It is generally far easier for an attacker to compromise the link between the Internet and us with means such as so-called trojan horses or other planted virus, than it is to compromise the link between our computer and us. With wearable computing, it can be used to create a new level of personal privacy because it can be made much more personal, as so that it is always worn. The close synergy between the human and computers makes it harder to attack directly, for example, data ...
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