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UIST
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
"Killer App" of wearable computing: wireless force sensing body protectors for martial arts
Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing both have the goal of pushing the computer into the background, supporting all kinds of human activities. Application areas include areas such as...
Ed Huai-hsin Chi, Jin Song, Greg Corbin
MOBISYS
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Indoor location sensing using geo-magnetism
We present an indoor positioning system that measures location using disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field caused by structural steel elements in a building. The presenc...
Jaewoo Chung, Matt Donahoe, Chris Schmandt, Ig-Jae...
ENGL
2007
179views more  ENGL 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Wearable Real-Time Stereo Vision for the Visually Impaired
— Visually impaired find their navigation difficult as they often lack the needed information for bypassing obstacles and hazards. Electronic Travel Aids (ETAs) are devices that ...
G. Balakrishnan, G. Sainarayanan, R. Nagarajan, Sa...
ISWC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
VibeFones: Socially Aware Mobile Phones
Today's mobile phones are essentially off-the-shelf, mass-market wearable computers. In this paper, we describe mobile social software that uses location, proximity and tone ...
Anmol Madan, Alex Pentland
ISWC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Wearable Augmented Reality System Using Invisible Visual Markers and an IR Camera
This paper describes a wearable augmented reality (AR) system using invisible visual markers. Some AR systems use visual markers in order to measure the position and orientation o...
Yusuke Nakazato, Masayuki Kanbara, Naokazu Yokoya