Moving Wearables into the Mainstream

This book discusses characteristics and design elements required for wearable devices and systems to be embraced by the mainstream population in their everyday lives. Structured for researchers and practitioners in industry, it can also be used as a course text.

The term Wearable Technology encompasses a wide spectrum of devices, services and systems for wireless communications and the web. This book discusses the characteristics and design elements required for wearable devices and systems to be widely adopted by the mainstream population for use in their everyday lives. This book introduces concepts such as Operational Inertia that form a mindset conducive to designing wearables suitable for broad adoption by consumers. Wearables are by their nature closely associated with the person, and their use generates social and legal issues that may have little to do with specific technologies. This book discusses these implications, which can pose the greatest impediment to the successful adoption of the technology. The book is structured to meet the needs of researchers and practitioners in industry, and can also be used as a secondary text in advanced-level courses in computer science and electrical engineering.

Provides a broad discussion of the various technologies underlying wearable devices Useful to practitioners of wearable research by giving an overview of areas outside their own that are relevant to wearables and may form the context in which they conduct their research Strives to answer how wearables can be designed to help people with daily tasks without getting between the users and the tasks they are trying to do

Inhalt
to Wearables.- Background.- Wearable System Applications.- Overview of Wearable Systems.- Mainstream Wearable Design.- Overview of Mainstream Wearable Design.- Mainstream Wearable Design In Detail.- Supporting Technologies.- Awareness and Immersion.- Communication And Power.- Mainstream Wearable Systems User Interfaces.- Sight and Sound User Interfaces.- Emerging User Interfaces.- Some Tough Hurdles and the Future.- Social Issues of Wearables.- Future of Wearable Systems.