Future of Wearable Computing: Constraint, Context and Location OSBridge 2012

Amber Case @caseorganic

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Univac 1 ~1950’s iPhone ~2000’s

I. Problems

Persistent Paleontology

Navigation

II. History

Self-Portrait of Steve Mann with Wearable Computing Apparatus 1981.

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Diminished Reality vs. Augmented Reality •  Adding your own layer onto reality •  Replacing public messages with your own

Adblock: Image recognition, processing and replacement.

Collaborative Reality

Remember the Milk Contextual Notification Systems

Virtual Post-It Notes with Image Processing 1995

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Computer-Mediated Reality: Face Recognition and History

Sousveillance: MaybeCam

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Present-Day ��� Steve Mann

•  Extremely lightweight equipment

•  Most people have this in their pocket

Construction

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Present-Day ��� Steve Mann

•  Extremely lightweight equipment

•  Most people have this in their pocket

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III. Persistent Architecture

Englebart’s Cyborg Glove

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Twiddler by HandyKey Corporation One-Handed Key Chording USB Keyboard

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Inputs

Thad Starner

Borg Group – MIT Media Lab

Sandy Pentland

GA Tech

IV: Next?

V. Non-visual wearable computing

Haptic Compass Belt

Heat Sink

EEG

Mann’s EEG Orchestra

Mann’s EEG Orchestra

Future

IV. The Future

context

your phone is a remote control for reality.

Calm technology

•  Actions as buttons •  Invisible interfaces •  Trigger-based interactions

The Invisible Interface

900m

80m

A Collection of Invisible Buttons

Types of Interactions

•  Entering •  Exiting •  Dwelling at a place

Proximal Notification

Ambient Notification

Location-based AR (Spotmetrix)

Geonotes

Real-Life Gaming

mapattack.org

Real-Time Hyperlocal

Weather

Bringing Wikipedia

to Life

“Dave, who is normally in New York, is in town. Both of your schedules are free at noon”.

Monitor significant events not all events

The interface disappears

•  Actions are Reduced •  Queries are Eliminated

Thank you.

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