Wearable computing

Kymissis, J., Kendall, C., Paradiso, J., and Greshenfeld, N., Parasitic power harvesting in shoes. Presented at 2nd IEEE International Conference on Wearable Computing, Paper no. 2, Aug. 1998. 

T. Starner and Y. Maguire, A Heat Dissipation Tutorial for Wearable Computers, MIT Media Lab., MA 02139. 

Mattmann, C., Amft, O., Harms, H., Clemens, F., Troster, G., 2007. Recognizing upper body postures using textile strain sensors. In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC07), Boston, MA. 

McCann, J., Hurford, R., Martin, A., 2005. A design process for the development of innovative smart clothing that addresses end-user needs from technical, functional, aesthetic and cultural view points. In Wearable Computers, 2005. Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium, 18—21 October, pp. 70—77. 

Starner T (1996) Human powered wearable computing. IBM Syst J 35(3) 618-629... 

For many years scientists have addressed the problem of how to use electronic systems to replace some of the functions of the human eye. Up to recently these were just interesting laboratory experiments, but new developments in electronics and wearable computers could turn these prototypes into devices of practical benefit at affordable prices. 

Vision enhancement involves input from a camera, processing of the information, and output on a visual display. In its simplest form it may be a miniature head-mounted camera with the output on a head-mounted visual display (as used in some virtual reality systems). However, modern fast wearable computers make feasible sophisticated processing of the information in real time, and it is this factor which could transform interesting research projects into products of practical benefit to the bhnd and partially sighted people. 

Chi, E.H., Song, J., Corbin, G., 2004. Killer App of wearable computing wireless force sensing body protectors for martial arts. In Proceedings of the 17th Armual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 24—27th October, Santa Fe, USA, pp. 277-285. 

Farringdon, J., Moore, A.J., Tilbury, N., Church, J., Biemond, P.D., 1999. Wearable sensor badge and sensor jacket for context awareness. In Digest of Papers. 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 18-19th October, Washington, USA, pp. 107-113. 

Knight, J.F., Baber, C., Schwirtz, A., Bristow, H.W., 2002. The comfort assessment of wearable computers. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), 7-lOth October, Seattle, USA, pp. 65-72. 

Meyer, J., Lukowicz, P., Troster, G., 2006. Textile pressure sensor for muscle activity and motion detection. In 10th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ll-14th October, Montreux, Switzerland, pp. 69 72. 

Ottenbacher, J., Romer, S., Kunze, C., GroBmann, U., Stork, W., 2004. Integration of a Bluetooth based ECG system into clothing. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 04), 31st October-3rd November. 

J Ottenbacher et al., Integration of a Bluetooth Based ECG System into Clothing , 8th int Symp on Wearable Computers, Arlington (USA), 2004. 

Ylisaukko-oja, A., Vildjiounaite, E., and Mantyjarvi, J., Five-point acceleration sensing wireless body area network—Design and practical experiences. Eighth Int. Symp. Wearable Comput., vol. 1, IEEE, n.d., pp. 184-185. 

Wearable sensor-based activity recognition (WSAR) In this AR, physical sensors are attached to the body. This is a relatively new approach which emerged with the development of wearable computing. Motion sensors (accelerometers... 

WSAR occurred with the development of wearable computing. The goal is to create personal applications that can adapt and react to the user s current context. The scope of context is diverse, and in WSAR, it refers to the current activity information. 

In this chapter, biomedical sensors for wearable computing including their measur-and and measured parameters are discussed, and then the available techniques for the textile-based body sensor networks design are considered. In order to demonstrate the potential benefits of the textile-based wearable wireless body sensor networks, recent development in wireless vital signals monitoring systems based on loT for health care and fitness applications are reviewed. 

Smailagic A, Siewiorek D, Reilly D. CMU wearable computers for real-time speech translation. In Proceedings of the ISWC 03 IEEE computer society 1999. 

Kortuem G, SegaU Z, Bauer M. Con-text-Aware, adaptive wearable computers as remote interfaces to intelligent environments. In Proc IEEE Int Symp Wearable computers (ISWC), IEEE CS press, Los Alamitos, Cahf 1998. p. 58—65. 

Linz, T., KaHmayer, C., Aschenbrenner, R., Reichl, H., 2005. Embroidering electrical interconnects with conductive yam for the integration of flexible electronic modules into fabric. In Wearable Computers, 2005. Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Symposium on, 18—21 October 2005, pp. 86—89. 

P. Salonen, M. Sydanheimo, M. Keskilammi, M. Kivikoski, A small planar inverted-F antenna for wearable applications, in Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers, October 19, 1999. 

J. Edmison, M. Jones, T. Lockhart, T. Martin, An e-textile system for motion analysis, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on New Generation of Wearable Computers for eHealth, Lucca, Italy, December 2003, pp. 215—223. 

T. Martin, M. Jones, J. Chong, M. Quirk, K. Baumarm, L. Passauer, Design and implementation of an electronic textile jumpsuit, in ISWC 09. International Symposium on Wearable Computing, September 4—7, 2009, pp. 157—158, Wearable Computers, 2009. 

A parallel link connects the master processor to an I/O or memory slave via a set of parallel lines. Centronics has been used for years for the connection of printers and scanners, together with the serial RS232 explained in the next section. Both should disappear soon. PCMCIA has been defined for portable PCs and uses a 64-pin connector to connect a memory card or a modem, but also accepts disks and fast video devices. New standards will be defined for the coming smaller disks and flash memories, to be used mostly for picture cameras and wearable computers. 

Chen, S. Epps, J. 2013. Blinking Toward Wearable Computing that Understands your Current Task. Pervasive Computing, IEEE, 12, 56-65. 

Smart textiles are made possible due to advances in many technologies coupled with the advances in textile materials and structures. A partial list includes biotechnology, information technology, microelectronics, wearable computers, nanotechnology and microelectromechanical machines. 

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