Designing EyeTap Digital Eyeglasses for Continuous Lifelong Capture and Sharing of Personal Experiences
Steve Mann, James Fung, Chris Aimone · 2005
Humans increasingly engage themselves in their computational world as much as the physical world. Following this need for constant connectivity, computing devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and camera phones have become more wearable. We introduce the EyeTap personal experience capturing system EyeTap digital eyeglasses cause the eye to, in effect, function as if it were both a camera and display, by mapping an effective camera and display inside the eye. Eyetap therefore captures images exactly as they were originally seen by the user. Since sight is a primary sense this interface becomes intuitive and easy to use for continuous capture and sharing of personal experiences. This paper will discuss the EyeTap’s evolution over the last 30 years; some encountered design principles, the various EyeTap applications and future social aspects that may arise from EyeTap technology.