Moving Wearables into the Mainstream (eBook)

Taming the Borg

Joseph L. Dvorak (Autor)

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2007 | 2008
XVI, 392 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-69142-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The term Wearable Technology encompasses a wide spectrum of devices, services and systems for wireless communications and the web. This book discusses characteristics and design elements required for wearable devices and systems to be embraced by the mainstream population for use in their everyday lives, introducing concepts such as Operational Inertia. The book discusses social and legal issues that may pose the greatest impediment to adoption of wearables. The book is structured to meet the needs of researchers and practitioners in industry, and can also be used as a secondary text in advanced-level courses in computer science and electrical engineering.

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Joseph Dvorak has over 10 years experience in wearable technology and design. He led the Conformables project at Motorola which researched highly wearable and easy to use devices and applications. He was the Motorola Scientist in Residence at the MIT Media Lab from 2005 - 2007. He is an Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University where he teaches courses in wearable technology and systems. He holds 14 patents in wearable technology. He is currently the Technology Futurist in the Motorola Corporate Technology Office. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.The term "e;Wearable Technology"e; encompasses a wide spectrum of devices, services and systems for wireless communications and the web. Wearables are by their nature closely associated with the person, and their use generates many social and even legal issues that have little to do with specific technologies. This professional book discusses the characteristics and design elements required for wearable devices and systems to be widely adopted by the mainstream population for use in their everyday lives. It shows how wearables can help people with daily tasks without getting between the user and the task.Moving Wearables into the Mainstream also introduces concepts such as Operational Inertia that form a mindset conducive to designing wearables suitable for broad adoption by consumers. This book provides insight into legal and cultural issues potentially unfamiliar to research engineers, as well as a broad discussion of technologies underlying wearable devices. Moving Wearables into the Mainstream is designed for a professional audience of practitioners and researchers in industry. This volume is also suitable as a secondary advanced-level text or reference book for students in computer science and electrical engineering. 

Inhalt

Acknowledgments 6
Preface 8
Contents 13
PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO WEARABLES 15
Chapter 1 BACKGROUND 16
1.1 POWER TO THE PEOPLE 16
1.2 A CURIOUS SITUATION 17
1.3 A BRIEF HISTORY OF WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY 21
1.4 ACCEPTANCE FACTORS FOR WEARABLE SYSTEMS 31
Chapter 2 WEARABLE SYSTEM APPLICATIONS 34
2.1 CHARACTERISTICS OF A WEARABLE APPLICATION 34
2.2 MAINSTREAM WEARABLE SYSTEM APPLICATIONS 37
2.3 MAKING THESE APPLICATIONS TRANSPARENT 52
Chapter 3 OVERVIEW OF WEARABLE SYSTEMS 54
3.1 WHAT IS A MAINSTREAM WEARABLE? 54
3.2 CHARACTERISTICS OF A WEARABLE SYSTEM 59
3.3 USER – WEARABLE INTERACTION MODES 63
3.4 FORM FACTOR OVERVIEW 68
3.5 TIME OUT: CONVERSATION WITH A SKEPTIC 81
PART 2: MAINSTREAM WEARABLE DESIGN 90
Chapter 4 OVERVIEW OF MAINSTREAM WEARABLE DESIGN 91
4.1 WHY THE BAD EXPERIENCE WITH ELECTRONIC DEVICES? 91
4.2 A TRANSPARENT USE DESIGN MINDSET 93
4.3 SYSTEM DESIGN PRINCIPLES 114
5.1 THE TRANSPARENT USE DESIGN PRINCIPLES IN DETAIL 125
Chapter 5 MAINSTREAM WEARABLE DESIGN IN DETAIL 125
5.2 APPLYING THE DESIGN PRINCIPLES 159
PART 3: SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES 165
Chapter 6 AWARENESS AND IMMERSION 166
6.1 PERVASIVE COMPUTING: THE EMERGENCE OF SMART SPACES 166
6.2 CONTEXT AWARENESS 179
Chapter 7 COMMUNICATION AND POWER 205
7.1 COMUNICATIONS IN WEARABLE SYSTEMS 205
7.2 POWER MANAGEMENT 218
PART 4: MAINSTREAM WEARABLE SYSTEMS USER INTERFACES 240
Chapter 8 SIGHT AND SOUND USER INTERFACES 241
8.1 THE ROLE OF A USER INTERFACE 241
8.2 DESIGN ATTRIBUTES OF A USER INTERFACE 244
8.3 SPEECH USER INTERFACE81 246
8.4 AUDIO INTERFACE 260
8.5 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR WEARABLES 265
Chapter 9 EMERGI NG USER INTERFACES 276
9.1 GESTURE INTERFACES 276
9.2 HAPTICS INTERFACE 283
9.3 EYE TRACKING 290
9.4 MULTIMODAL USER INTERFACE 294
9.5 INTERFACE PERSONALIZATION 303
PART 5: SOME TOUGH HURDLES AND THE FUTURE 315
Chapter 10 SOCIAL ISSUES OF WEARABLES 316
10.1 WEARABLES AND THE ACCOMMODATION OF SOCIAL VALUES AND CONVENTIONS 316
10.2 RESOLVING THESE ISSUES 334
Chapter 11 FUTURE OF WEARABLE SYSTEMS 338
11.1 TRENDS 338
11.2 PREDICTIONS 341
11.3 LAWS OF WEARABLES 352
11.4 CYBERTWIN: A POSSIBLE FUTURE 353
A Final Note WHY TAME THE BORG? 365
GLOSSARY OF WEARABLE TERMS 368
INDEX 388

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 392 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Hardware
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
• Schlagworte: Communication • Electrical Engineering • Interaction Complexity • Non-use Obtrusiveness • NZOID • Operational Inertia • Setup Effort • Transparent Use • Wearable Design • Wearables • Wearable System • ZOID
• ISBN-10: 0-387-69142-1 / 0387691421
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-69142-8 / 9780387691428