The maturing field of wearable computing aims to interweave computing devices into everyday life. This report focuses on smart glasses, one of the categories of wearable computing devices which is very present in the media and expected to be a big market in the next years. It analyses the differences from smart glasses to other smart devices, introduces many possible applications for different ...

Emerging applications in the field of mobile, wearable or ubiquitous computing try to include more of the user’s context in order to better adapt the user interface (UI) to the user. Ideally, the computer would proactively act on the user’s behalf. Within my PhD, I would like to identify which kind of context information is interesting within the scope of UIs and how this information can be use...

Modern medical devices connected to public and private networks require additional layers of communication management effectively securely treat remote patients. Wearable devices, for example, can detect position, movement, vital signs; such data help improve the quality care patients, even when they are not close a doctor or caregiver. In healthcare environments, these called Medical Internet-...

BACKGROUND Today, runners use wearable technology such as global positioning system (GPS)-enabled sport watches to track and optimize their training activities, for example, when participating in a road race event. For this purpose, an increasing amount of low-priced, consumer-oriented wearable devices are available. However, the variety of such devices is overwhelming. It is unclear which devi...

12 AI MAGAZINE Recent advances in smart human-machine systems, including wearable robotic technologies and neural interfaces, which are able to detect conscious choice, decision, and intent from the patient, now allow the design of wearable robots and powered prostheses and exoskeletons that assist and work cooperatively with people with disabilities (figure 1). Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug...

OBJECTIVE Extensive efforts have been made in both academia and industry in the research and development of smart wearable systems (SWS) for health monitoring (HM). Primarily influenced by skyrocketing healthcare costs and supported by recent technological advances in micro- and nanotechnologies, miniaturisation of sensors, and smart fabrics, the continuous advances in SWS will progressively ch...

Soft robots fabricated from low modulus, compliant materials hold significant potential for medical device applications that warrant safe, synergistic interaction with humans. We have recently applied this technology to develop ventricular assistive devices (VADs) that can externally massage the failing heart [1][2]. In heart failure (HF), the heart cannot provide sufficient pumping support to ...

In this paper we describe the material of a construction kit designed to allow children to build their own handheld and wearable devices to meet their interests and passions. Children don’t work with these machines, they learn, play and grow with them. Informed by the types of projects that children have done with this material in the context of educational research in science and engineering, ...

OBJECTIVE Wearable devices using new technology may be a cost-effective method to assess functional outcomes in survivors of critical illness. Our primary objective was to review the extent to which wearable devices such as smartphones, pedometers, accelerometers and global positioning systems have been used to evaluate outcomes in survivors of an intensive care unit admission. DESIGN We incl...

In this paper, we present an interactive media with personal networked devices (InterMedia) which aims to progress towards truly user-centric convergence of multimedia system. Our vision is to make the user as a multimedia central to access multimedia anywhere and anytime exploiting diverse devices. To realize the user-centric convergence, we defined three key challenging issues: dynamic distri...