Aware-mail: an event-driven mail system for wearable computing environments

In recent years, e-mail has become widespread explosively and it became one of very important communication tools which anyone can use easily. Here, the wearable computing has also attracted a lot of attention. In wearable computing environments, a user brings and uses his/her own computer wherever he/she goes. Therefore, we can construct a new mail system by utilizing the features of wearable computing such as "hands-free", "always on", and "supporting daily life". In this paper, we propose a mail system for wearable computing environments, called aware-mail (active wearable system applying rule-based engine for mail). Our system provides new type of communications in wearable computing environments, such as automatic mail processing according to the user\´s situation and exchanging information with other users by mail-based P2P communications.