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ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Smart Sight: A Tourist Assistant System
In this paper, we present our e orts towards developing an intelligent tourist system. The system is equipped with a unique combination of sensors and software. The hardware inclu...
Jie Yang, Weiyi Yang, Matthias Denecke, Alex Waibe...
ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Hummingbirds Go Skiing: Using Wearable Computers to Support Social Interaction
The Hummingbird is a wearable computer that aims to support communication in co-located groups, by giving users a continuous awareness of the physical presence (or absence) of oth...
Alexandra Weilenmann, Lars Erik Holmquist
ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
The WristCam as Input Device
We show how images of a user's hand from a video camera attached to the underside of the wrist can be processed to yield finger movement information. Discrete (and discreet) ...
Andrew Vardy, John A. Robinson, Li-Te Cheng
ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
CMU Wearable Computers for Real-Time Speech Translation
Asim Smailagic, Daniel P. Siewiorek, Richard Marti...
ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Wearable Context-Awareness Component: Finally a Good Reason to Wear a Tie
Albrecht Schmidt, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Michael B...
ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Non-Ideal Battery Properties and Low Power Operation in Wearable Computing
This paper describes non-ideal properties of batteries and how these properties may impact power-performance trade-offs in wearable computing. The first part of the paper details ...
Thomas L. Martin, Daniel P. Siewiorek
ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
The Wearboy: A Platform for Low-cost Public Wearable Devices
We introduce the WearBoy
Peter Ljungstrand, Staffan Björk, Jennica Fal...
ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Virtual Information Towers-A Metaphor for Intuitive, Location-Aware Information Access in a Mobile Environment
This paper introduces Virtual Information Towers (VITs) as a concept for presenting and accessing location-aware information with mobile clients. A VIT is a means of structuring l...
Alexander Leonhardi, Uwe Kubach, Kurt Rothermel, A...
ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
When Cyborgs Meet: Building Communities of Cooperating Wearable Agents
This paper introduces the notion of a Wearable Community as a group of wearable users who cooperate for their mutual benefit. In such a community, wearable computers act as person...
Gerd Kortuem, Jay Schneider, Jim Suruda, Stephen F...
ISWC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Situated Documentaries: Embedding Multimedia Presentations in the Real World
We describe an experimental wearable augmented reality system that enables users to experience hypermedia presentations that are integrated with the actual outdoor locations to wh...
Tobias Höllerer, John V. Pavlik, Steven Feine...