“Wearable Computing: Through the Looking Glass” by Starner
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- Wearable Computing: Through the Looking Glass
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Wearable computing is now a part of everyday life. Bluetooth headsets, iPods, and smart phones are commonly worn in public and have much of the functionality demonstrated by early researchers in the field. Google’s Project Glass, which has sparked the public’s imagination, leverages experience from academia to enable (hopefully) compelling new lifestyles.
Wearable computing will continue to enable users in new ways, and in this talk, I will describe some of the more unusual and surprising applications currently being explored by my group at Georgia Tech. These include Mobile Music Touch (a mobile, wireless glove that helps a wearer learn new piano melodies without active attention), BrainSign (a Brain Computer Interface effort which attempts to recognize sign language by scanning the user’s motor cortex), and CHAT (the Cetacean Hearing Augmentation and Telemetry wearable computer designed for two way communication experiments with Atlantic Spotted Dolphins).
I will also describe our work in using wearables to create technology to help deaf children acquire language skills.
