University Wearable Computing Project – Assistance requested

As part of my university course I have to do a research project on something of my choosing. Wearable computing is something that interests me and so I have chosen to perform some research into the current state of wearable computing as well as produce a prototype software application for a web based wearable computing system.

As such, I am requesting some assistance with this project. First off, I would like to hear what your thoughts are on wearable computing, the pros, cons etc. I also request any good sources of information related to wearable computing, ideally books or journal articles, stuff that can be referenced in a dissertation. Now I’m not asking you to do the research for me, just to throw any good sources my way, if you have them.

For the prototype application, I’m looking to recruit some testers. Testers must have access to some form of webserver running PHP and possibly MySQL. This is not required as yet, just a heads up to those who may be interested.

If you want to be credited as helping me with this project, say so, all others will rename anonymous. Also, the results of the research will be published in some form and I will give out the link here.