Multimedia Informal Communication by Wearable Computer based on Real-World Context and Graffiti

The informal information can be so intuitive, emotional, personal, honest and subjective that it is very difficult to get them from the formal media. In this paper, we demonstrate a multimedia informal communication support system whose basic architecture is a combination of a wearable computer, a seethrough head mounted display, a bone conduction speaker, and a 3D-pen. The user can create a “multimedia” graffiti such as a handwritten memo or a voice memo and place it in a real-world “multimedia” context such as at a certain location (by GPS), environmental sound, the real object (by RFID) and so on. The multimedia informal information is thus shared with others on the peer-to-peer self-organized network. We demonstrated the prototype system and conducted a preliminary evaluation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICMCS
• Authors: Shun'ichi Tano, Tatsuhiro Takayama, Mitsuru Iwata, Tomonori Hashiyama
• Keywords: Bone Conduction Speaker, ICMCS 2006, Informal Information, Multimedia Informal Communication