The Shopping Jacket: Wearable Computing for the Consumer

As part of the Bristol Wearable Computing Initiative we are exploring location sensing systems suitable for use with Wearable Computing. In this paper we present our ndings, and in particular a wearable application - the 'Shopping Jacket' - which relies on a minimal infrastructure to be e ective. We use two positioning devices, 'Pingers' and GPS. The Pinger is used to signal the presence of a shop, and to indicate the type of shop and it's website. The GPS is used to disambiguate which branch of a high street chain we are passing. The wearable uses this information to determine whether the wearer needs to be alerted that they are passing an interesting shop, or to direct the wearer around a shopping mall. The shopping jacket integrates a wearable CardPC; GPS and Pinger receivers; a near- eld radio link; hand-held display; GSM data telephone; and a speech interface into a conventional sports blazer. Keywords - wearable computer, location sensing, GPS, pinger, sh...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: PUC
• Authors: Cliff Randell, Henk L. Muller
• Keywords: PUC 2000, Wearable, Wearable Computing, Wearable Computing Initiative