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International Symposium on Wearable Computers
About: International Symposium on Wearable Computers is an academic conference. The conference publishes majorly in the area(s): Wearable computer & Activity recognition. Over the lifetime, 1963 publications have been published by the conference receiving 46728 citations.
Topics: Wearable computer, Activity recognition, Wearable technology, Augmented reality, Context (language use)
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13 Oct 1997
TL;DR: A prototype system that combines the overlaid 3D graphics of augmented reality with the untethered freedom of mobile computing is described, to explore how these two technologies might together make possible wearable computer systems that can support users in their everyday interactions with the world.
Abstract: We describe a prototype system that combines together the overlaid 3D graphics of augmented reality with the untethered freedom of mobile computing The goal is to explore how these two technologies might together make possible wearable computer systems that can support users in their everyday interactions with the world We introduce an application that presents information about our university's campus, using a head-tracked, see-through, head-worn, 3D display, and an untracked, opaque, handheld, 2D display with stylus and trackpad We provide an illustrated explanation of how our prototype is used, and describe our rationale behind designing its software infrastructure and selecting the hardware on which it runs
916 citations
18 Jun 2012
TL;DR: A new dataset - recorded from 18 activities performed by 9 subjects, wearing 3 IMUs and a HR-monitor - is created and made publicly available, showing the difficulty of the classification tasks and exposes new challenges for physical activity monitoring.
Abstract: This paper addresses the lack of a commonly used, standard dataset and established benchmarking problems for physical activity monitoring. A new dataset -- recorded from 18 activities performed by 9 subjects, wearing 3 IMUs and a HR-monitor -- is created and made publicly available. Moreover, 4 classification problems are benchmarked on the dataset, using a standard data processing chain and 5 different classifiers. The benchmark shows the difficulty of the classification tasks and exposes new challenges for physical activity monitoring.
902 citations
19 Oct 1998
TL;DR: This paper examines three different devices that can be built into a shoe and used for generating electrical power "parasitically" while walking, two of which are piezoelectric in nature and one is a shoe-mounted rotary magnetic generator.
Abstract: As the power requirements for microelectronics continue decreasing, environmental energy sources can begin to replace batteries in certain wearable subsystems. In this spirit, this paper examines three different devices that can be built into a shoe, (where excess energy is readily harvested) and used for generating electrical power "parasitically" while walking. Two of these are piezoelectric in nature: a unimorph strip made from piezoceramic composite material and a stave made from a multilayer laminate of PVDF foil. The third is a shoe-mounted rotary magnetic generator. Test results are given for these systems, their relative merits and compromises are discussed, and suggestions are proposed for improvements and potential applications in wearable systems. As a self-powered application example, a system had been built around the piezoelectric shoes that periodically broadcasts a digital RFID as the bearer walks.
795 citations
19 Oct 1998
TL;DR: A prototype application has been constructed to explore how some of the contextual capabilities of the Contextual Information Service could be deployed in a wearable system designed to aid an ecologist's observations of giraffe in a Kenyan game reserve.
Abstract: Context-awareness has an increasingly important role to play in the development of wearable computing systems. In order to better define this role we have identified four generic contextual capabilities: sensing, adaptation, resource discovery, and augmentation. A prototype application has been constructed to explore how some of these capabilities could be deployed in a wearable system designed to aid an ecologist's observations of giraffe in a Kenyan game reserve. However, despite the benefits of context-awareness demonstrated in this prototype, widespread innovation of these capabilities is currently stifled by the difficulty in obtaining the contextual data. To remedy this situation the Contextual Information Service (CIS) is introduced. Installed on the user's wearable computer, the CIS provides a common point of access for clients to obtain, manipulate and model contextual information independently of the underlying plethora of data formats and sensor interface mechanisms.
615 citations
13 Oct 1997
TL;DR: The wearable remembrance agent is described, a continuously running proactive memory aid that uses the physical context of a wearable computer to provide notes that might be relevant in that context.
Abstract: This paper describes the wearable remembrance agent, a continuously running proactive memory aid that uses the physical context of a wearable computer to provide notes that might be relevant in that context. A currently running prototype is described, along with future directions for research inspired by using the prototype.
573 citations