wear-UCAM: A Toolkit for Wearable Computing

In this paper, we propose wear-UCAM, which is a toolkit for Unified Context-aware Application Model in wearable computing. As the rapid developments of mobile technologies and relevant technologies, the interests in wearable computing also become popular in both academic and industrial fields. Unfortunately there are few research activities on the application toolkit for wearable computing to support application developers not to take care the low level issues. In this regard, we focus on how to manipulate user relevant context from sensors or services, how to manage it, and how to provide services based on the managed user relevant context because personal data (health, preferences, activities etc) are crucial for the personalized services. For the sake of rapid prototyping of the proposed toolkit, we first utilize PDA with wireless LAN as a wearable computer and experiment it in ubiHome, a smart home environment test-bed in GIST U-VR Lab.