User Interfaces for Wearable Computers

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      Pages 1-8

3. Theoretical Framework and Related Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Interdisciplinary Foundations

      Pages 11-20

   3. Fundamentals of Perception and Cognition

      Pages 21-35

   4. Human-Computer Interaction

      Pages 37-62

   5. Context-Awareness and Adaptive User Interfaces

      Pages 63-72

4. Design and Development of Wearable User Interfaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. An Approach for Developing Wearable User Interfaces

      Pages 75-87

5. Evaluation of Wearable User Interfaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. The HotWire Apparatus

      Pages 91-104

   3. Interruption Methods for Gesture Interaction

      Pages 105-124

   4. Interruption Methods for Speech Interaction

      Pages 125-146

   5. Visual Feedback and Frames of Reference for Gesture Interaction

      Pages 147-170

6. Development of Wearable User Interface

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. The Wearable User Interface Toolkit

      Pages 173-206

   3. Applications

      Pages 207-217

7. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Conclusions and Final Remarks

      Pages 221-226

8. Back Matter

   Pages 227-273

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Looking at mobile solutions or wearable computing, it immediately becomes apparent that their user interfaces call for di?erent solutions than the desktop paradigm. This is not only due to the very small size of the displays but also predominantly to the need for a much stronger dependency on the applications. In addition, they feature a use of environmental sensors which has never been seen before enabling applications to run in an Ambient Intelligence Environment. This development requires new solutions and constitutes new research questions. With this book, Dr. Witt contributes to the goal of including mobile and wearable interfaces into a proper development process again: He develops a systematical approach for the development of mobile and wearable user interfaces that can be embedded in standard development processes, and which can also be evaluated during this process. Furthermore, he also describes the architecture and implementation of the WUI, a We- able User Interface Toolkit, which provides the necessary levels of abstraction to allow the programmers of mobile and wearable solutions to easily implement novel solutions in an almost standardized way. These results are based on a solid theoretical foundation and thorough state-of-the-art research. The evaluation of mobile and wearable user interfaces which usually combine a primary manual task with computer assistance is developed as an especially clever ga- like process: Dr. Witt uses the ”hot wire” game to combine all relevant aspects for a proper evaluation.

• Design
• HotWire
• Informatik
• Usability
• User Interface Design
• Wearable Computing
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• software

Dr. Hendrik Witt is a senior research scientist at the Centre for Computing Technologies (TZI) at the University of Bremen (Germany). His research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and context recognition.

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