Wearable computing: toward humanistic intelligence

Wearable Computing: Toward Humanistic Intelligence

It is common in the field of human–computer interaction to think of the human and computer as separate entities. (Indeed, the term “HCI” emphasizes this separateness by treating the human and computer as different entities that interact.) However, in HI theory, we prefer not to think of the wearer and the computer with its associated I/O apparatus as separate entities. Instead, we regard the co...

Wearable Computing: A First Step Toward Personal Imaging

Can you imagine hauling around a large, light-tight wooden trunk containing a co-worker or an assistant whom you take out only for occasional, brief interaction. For each session, you would have to open the box, wake up (boot) the assistant, and afterward seal him back in the box. Human dynamics aside, wouldn’t that person seem like more of a burden than a help? In some ways, today’s multimedia...

Exploring Humanistic Intelligence Through Physiologically Mediated Reality

We present a way of making the wearing of a lifelong electrocardiographic health monitor fun for a user. The health monitor is coupled with a reality mediator device to create a Physiologically Mediated Reality. Physiologically Mediated Reality is Mediated Reality which alters a user’s audiovisual perception of the world based upon their own electrocardiographic waveform. This creates an intere...

Toward a humanistic approach in psychiatry

"To be human, means to be at play" (C.G. Jung). The democratisation of the east european societies caused an important development in the health system of these countries and in particular of mental health. Within the medicine itself, psychiatry as a special branch of it, is undergoing changes rapidly due to this important development in medicine. Relations of psychiatry with the rest of medici...

Toward the Humanistic Study of Law