Middleware for Wearable Computing
Chandra Narayanaswami · Auerbach Publications eBooks · 2016
Wearable computing has existed as an independent field for more than a dozen years now, and its impact is being felt today by millions of people. So, what is a wearable computer? Broadly speaking, a wearable computer is typically worn directly on the body or attached to clothes worn on the body. Sometimes, the wearable computer is even implanted inside the body. The overall vision is that, by integrating the wearable computer into something the user always wears, it will be available to the user almost all the time. Research in wearable computing [2,5,20,21,25,26,29,39,42,43] attempts to bring the power of computing technologies into our daily lives at a much more pervasive level than the traditional desktop computer. Unlike traditional computing where humans explicitly go to a computing device to use its services, the approach of wearable computing is one where the computer is with the user and continually augments the capabilities of the individual.