• DocumentCode
    2781637
  • Title

    Eventcasting with a wearable computer

  • Author

    Drugge, Mikael ; Nilsson, Marcus ; Synnes, Kåare ; Parnes, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Lulea Univ. of Technol., Sweden
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    23-24 March 2004
  • Firstpage
    408
  • Lastpage
    413
  • Abstract
    Traditionally, interaction methods for wearable computers have focused on input to the computer itself, yet little has been done when it comes to allowing interaction with the surrounding environment. Pervasive computing, on the other hand, offers access to computational power from any place all the time, yet most interaction techniques utilize either physical hardware or monitoring of the user in order to receive input. This paper presents a novel form of interaction by which a wearable computer user can interact with and control a pervasive computing environment in a natural and intuitive manner. Using sensors, the user can be allowed to literally "throw" events into the environment as a way of interacting with devices and computers.
  • Keywords
    ubiquitous computing; user interfaces; wearable computers; eventcasting; pervasive computing; user interaction; wearable computer; Computer science; Computerized monitoring; Hardware; Humans; Pervasive computing; Pharmaceutical technology; Physics computing; Power engineering computing; Wearable computers; Wearable sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2004. Proceedings. 24th International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2087-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICDCSW.2004.1284062
  • Filename
    1284062