HCI for the Memory Glasses

 MIThril, a borglab production. Richard W. DeVaul, Jonathan Gips, Michael Sung, Sandy Pentland

once you have context, what do you do with it?
The memory glasses application is very simple and requires a minimum of user intervention once tags are mapped and reminders are scheduled. A small head-mounted display showing pictures and text associated with the wearer's present location and conversation partner are superimposed over a portion of the visual field of one eye. For instance, If the wearer were standing at a particular location in the borglab and talking to Sandy Pentland, she would see:

Image and text output from prototype Memory Glasses implementation, actual resolution
dev-tty1.media.mit.edu Sandy Pentland
dev-tty1, borglab Sandy Pentland

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Context Awareness and Applications
Richard W. DeVaul
The second annual "I Wanna Be a Cyborg" event, a borglab production.