Expressive Wearables

Aaective Wearables

An \aaective wearable" is a wearable system equipped with sensors and tools which enables recognition of its wearer's aaective patterns. Af-fective patterns include expressions of emotion such as a joyful smile, an angry gesture, a strained voice or a change in autonomic nervous system activity such as accelerated heart rate or increasing skin conductivity. This paper describes new applications...

Active Vision for Wearables

In this paper we report on our ongoing research on wearable active vision, where we have iteratively prototyped a Wearable Visual Robot — a body mounted robot for which the main sensor is a camera. Two main areas have been studied: robot design and visual algorithms. In the design stage, we have analysed sensor placement through the computation of the field of view and body motion using a 3D mo...

Templates for Wearables in Context

Wearables for Physical

Health and Fitness Wearables

ed some of its sensor data by providing users with a proprietary “Fuel number” which represents a measure of overall activity in relation to biology-based “oxygen kinetics.” This number is meant to motivate users toward a general daily goal. However, many mainstream users report that the meaning of this number is opaque and confusing. These consumer perceptions underscore the need (and opportun...