• DocumentCode
    2331328
  • Title

    Design for wearability

  • Author

    Gemperle, Francine ; Kasabach, Chris ; Stivoric, John ; Bauer, Malcolm ; Martin, Richard

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Complex Eng. Syst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    19-20 Oct. 1998
  • Firstpage
    116
  • Lastpage
    122
  • Abstract
    Digital Technology is constantly improving as information becomes wireless. These advances demand more wearable and mobile form factors for products that access information. A product that is wearable should have wearability. This paper explores the concept of dynamic wearability, through design research. Wearability is defined as the interaction between the human body and the wearable object. Dynamic wearability extends that definition to include the human body in motion. Our research has been to locate, understand, and define the spaces on the human body where solid and flexible forms can rest-without interfering with fluid human movement. The result is a set of design guidelines embodied in a set of wearable forms. These wearable forms describe the three dimensional spaces on the body best suited for comfortable and unobtrusive wearability by design.
  • Keywords
    portable computers; design for wearability; design research; dynamic wearability; mobile form factors; Design engineering; Electrical capacitance tomography; Fluid dynamics; Guidelines; Humans; Microwave integrated circuits; Solids; Space technology; Systems engineering and theory; Wearable computers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wearable Computers, 1998. Digest of Papers. Second International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-9074-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISWC.1998.729537
  • Filename
    729537