Wearable Computing Survey

by Kevin on April 13, 2009
in Journal

After much procrastination, I am finally putting up the survey for my wearable computing dissertation. You can reply in a comment or email it to survey at kevinisageek dot org. All results will be kept anonymous but if you wish to be credited, supply your name/nickname/pseudonym.

Level of computer expertiese:

Very high/High/medium/low/whats a computer?

Do you have a wearable system already?
Yes/No

If yes, can you please give some details (hardware used, software, tasks you use the system for etc)

What deficits do you see in the current field of wearable computing?

What advantages does a wearable have in your opinion?

What disadvantages/difficulties does a wearable system pose in your opinion?

University Wearable Computing Project – Assistance requested

by Kevin on February 18, 2009
in Journal

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.