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Wearable Computing group at University of Oregon has been active since 1995. Our
focus is the design, development and evaluation of wearable and mobile computing
technology for facilitating and augmenting human collaboration.
Our current projects include:
Wearable Communities. This project investigates the use of cutting-edge
mobile and wearable computing technology to assist people during social face-to-face
encounters in the real world: when people meet on the way to the office, in the
elevator, or at the grocery store. The main question we are trying to answer is "How
can mobile technology facilitate or augment social interactions and which effect
will this technology have on the way people interact and form communities?"
[Wired News Article
on Wearable Communities...]
Context-Aware Toolkit. CAT is a middleware that provides tools for the quick development and deployment of context-aware applications for mobile or even non-mobile devices. [More...]
iSIM. iSIM is a wearable computing environment simulator. This, in-house developed, simulator has been extremely useful for testing several wearable and context-aware applications prior to their real world deployment. [More...]
Mobile Middleware for Ad Hoc Collaboration. Proem is a mobile
middleware platform for collaborative peer-to-peer computing. The main
goal of Proem is to provide standards for and enable rapid development of
applications for ad hoc network environments. [More...]
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Jim Suruda with IBM
wearable computer prototype
News
Howard Rheingold has written an
article on "Cyborg
Swarms and Wearable Communities" in the online magazine TheFeature.
Check it out here.
Workshop on
Ad hoc
Communications and Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
at CSCW 2002. This workshop is co-organized
by the Wearable Computing Lab and will be held on November 16, 2002 in New
Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The submission deadline is August 16, 2002.
Check out the CFP.
Mobile Ad Hoc
Collaboration Workshop at CHI 2002 co-organized by Wearable Computing Group
at University of Oregon.
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