Title :
How Wearables Worked their Way into the Mainstream
Author_Institution :
Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
Thad Starner, who has been wearing a "homebrew" computer with a head-up display as part of his daily life since 1993, discusses why it has taken so long for wearables to capture consumer interest. He discusses the various challenges of designing wearable systems and presents five different phases of head-mounted displays, illustrating how improvements in technology allowed progressively more useful and usable devices.
Keywords :
head-up displays; helmet mounted displays; wearable computers; head-mounted displays; head-up display; homebrew computer; wearable computer; wearable systems; Batteries; Displays; Mobile communication; Smart phones; Wearable computers; HUD; head-mounted display HMD; head-up display; history of computing; mobile; pervasive computing; wearable computing; wearables;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2014.66
