Wearable Computing Links

Research Projects and Programs

MIT research

• The Wearable museum experience
• Affective Computing
• The MIT Microdisplay Project
• The Remembrance Agent
• The Personal Area Network
• Nomadic Radio: Wearable Audio Computing

Other Academic Programs

• Vuman (CMU)
• CMU's Speechwear paper (using speech on a wearable)
• Columbia Augmented Reality projects
• Columbia Mobile Computing Laboratory
• Georgia Tech wearables
• Georgia Tech Future Computing Environments
• Walkstation II (Kth, Sweden)
• Reports from Rutgers DATAMAN group (mobile IP)
• Stanford's MosquitoNet
• University of Birmingham
• University of Oregon wearable program
• University of Toronto Humanistic Intelligence Lab
• U. Washington HIT Labs guide to wearable computer literature (bibliography, links, etc.)
• U. Washington HIT Labs
• Virtual Retinal Display (HIT Labs, U. Washington)
• The WetPC (an underwater wearable in Australia)

Military and Commercial research

• DARPA's Smart Module program
• NASA Body Wearable Computer at Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
• Army's Force XXI (takes some digging)
• Atlanta VA REhab R&D Website
• Digital's Factoid
• Sony Computer Science Lab. Inc., Katashi Nagao (in particular, Ubiquitous Talker)
• Sony Computer Science Lab. Inc, Jun Rekimoto (in particular, NaviCam)

Independent Research and System Specifications

• wearables.ml.org No relation to the Media Lab, but R. Paul McCarty has put together a nifty site tracking resources and public projects.
• HackMan 0.4, an S-MOS card based wearable computer
• Peter Koritschan
• Neill Newman, VASE Lab, University Of Essex (see also his Sulawesi software)
• Steve Roberts, Nomadic Research Labs
• Adam Oranchak's WIT Project (Oranchak's presentation at MIT Media Lab)
• OS-9 wearable project
• The TurboTortoise site

Commercial wearables sites

Moderators' note: As with many tech companies these days, announcements are made even when the hardware is not available and may be many months, in some cases years, away. Each of these companies currently has a product to sell, but even if a particular unit is marked available, all of the options may not be. Contact the company directly for current information.

Companies with current product

• Intervision (their site)
• Mentis by Interactive Solutions / Teltronics Inc.
• MicroOptical Corp: Probably the most subtle HMD's out today. Still in beta, but available.
• PED Inc. (Personal Electronic Devices) Concentrate on peripherals for wearables.
• Phoenix Group (their page) and our old page on them
• Rockwell's Trekker (this is supposedly the link - www.wearablepc.rockwell.com).
• Sentel - a wearable computer reseller/developer.
• Symbol Tech's arm mounted bar code scanning computer
• ViA Inc. The Flexible PC Company
• Xybernaut (formerly CPSI).

MP3 and audio players

• Diamond Multimedia Rio mpeg3 player (plays compressed music/audio from 32M+ flash memory - songs loaded from your PC's parallel port - nifty Linux down/upload software for the Rio )
• Audible's compressed audio player (flash memory). Used for books on tape, stored radio shows, etc.

Up-and-coming products

• IBM's prototype wearable computer. 233Mhz Pentium, 64M RAM, 340M HD, 10.5 ounces with 1.5-2hr battery, irda, audio, trackpoint, 320x240 greyscale HUD

Online Magazines

• Wireless Design & Development Magazine

Privacy Issues

• MCSA `94 home page See the following papers:
• Anonymity in a Mobile Computing Environment, N. Asokan - University of Waterloo.
• A Method Providing Identity Privacy to Mobile Users during Authentication, Didier Samfat and Refik Molva - Institut Eurecom.
• On Travelling Incognito, A. Herzberg, H. Krawczyk - IBM T.J. Watson, and G. Tsudik - IBM Zurich.

Enabling technologies for the handicapped

• A Home-Made Low Vision Reading Assistant (Thad's hack)
• Magnicam low vision commercial system (formerly Innovention)
• Arkenstone - reading systems for people with visual and reading disabilities
• VideoEye magnification system
• MoBIC: Mobility of Blind and Elderly People Interacting with Computers University of Magdeburg project.
• WebABLE "First-Stop-Shop" for people with disabilities
• The vOICe "Seeing with your ears" page
• Visionics commerical low vision system
• Wearable, Tetherless, Computer-Mediated Reality With Possible Future Applications to the Disabled (Steve Mann)
• The Visual Filter and Netcam (Steve's pages)
• High-Tech Help for the Blind by Peter Tyson (popular press paper)

Other Resources

• Microdisplay Report
• The Tech Museum of Innovation Wearables Website
• sci.virtual-worlds newsgroup/web-site often has useful info
• Bill Buxton maintains a general list of input devices
• Mobile and Wireless Computing index. This is a good one!
• Apple's FCC proposal for making 300Mhz in the 5Ghz spectrum unlicensed!

Mailing lists

• For people interested in making their own systems
  • For people interested in making the Lizzy, the MIT Wearable Computer Design, mail wear-hard-request@haven.org with "Subscribe" in the subject line.
  • For people interested in making wearables in Scandinavia, mail majordomo@tripnet.se, with "subscribe wear-hard" in the body.

Jobs

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