Application of wearable computing in the manufacture and other related domain
Shiji Xiahou, Dong-Yi Chen · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2005
A survey of application of Wearable Computing in the Manufacture and other correlative domain is presented. At first, a short introduction to the Wearable Computing, such as the characters and its applications in some large manufacturing enterprises, is given, and then, an elaborate analysis of its typical applications scenario in the manufacture and other correlative domains is provided. Thirdly, a few typical wearable application research works on equipment installment, maintenance, operation watch, and fault diagnose, repair and corresponding operation training, is summed up. Fourthly, these scenarios character in special working environment and complex task process is analyzed. Fifthly, the related research works and depict the typical work flow of the wearable computer operators in these application scenarios is summarized, and the demand of the wearable computer's support soft system is depicted. Some key technologies for implementing this support soft system is presented according to these demands include Adaptive Human-Computer Interface, Augment Reality, Workflow Design and Sensor Network, etc. At last, an infrastructure for the system design, include software and hardware architecture, is introduced.