User Interfaces for Wearable Computers Development and Evaluation /

• Main Author: Witt, Hendrik (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Vieweg+Teubner, 2008.
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Graphic design.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computer Science, general.; Interaction Design.

Over the last decades, desktop computers for professional and consumer applications have become a quasi standard. However, the last few years have been dominated by a new trend in computing: the mobile use of computers. Wearable computers, which are a special kind of mobile computer, assist their us...

Table of Contents:

• Theoretical Framework and Related Work
• Interdisciplinary Foundations
• Fundamentals of Perception and Cognition
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Context-Awareness and Adaptive User Interfaces
• Design and Development of Wearable User Interfaces
• An Approach for Developing Wearable User Interfaces
• Evaluation of Wearable User Interfaces
• The HotWire Apparatus
• Interruption Methods for Gesture Interaction
• Interruption Methods for Speech Interaction
• Visual Feedback and Frames of Reference for Gesture Interaction
• Development of Wearable User Interface
• The Wearable User Interface Toolkit
• Applications
• Conclusion
• Conclusions and Final Remarks.