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Wearable devices




Who holds the activation model


Autonomous collaborative devices — XO brain project (a 10-year information-business project — agent role, digital brain)


Public -> lifestyle-oriented services (gas monitoring, AC control...)


human augmenting (broadband networks required — Giga Korea government project underway)


Capacitive screens are less accurate than resistive ones, but Apple improved the accuracy in software


Voice recognition only — used on its own (speech -> text -> recognition rate) 

   => Siri: asks you back (QA) = the trigger for commercialization 

   => Cloud: adapts to the user


Kinect sensor (uses an infrared laser-beam projector and a monochrome CMOS sensor to extract depth information)

   -> Used as foundational data for human-understanding (markerless approach)

   -> Why did she cross her legs


Leap Motion

   -> TOF method, 8 cubic feet 


Evolution of image-recognition models

   Fingerlink interaction system (Fujitsu)

   Image recognition: Google acquired PittPatt (augmented humanity) 

/ Close eyes, TV turns off; in-store foot-traffic lines

   * (CCTV has low face-recognition rates because the angle is from above, not head-on.)

   * (Human-factor issues need solving: projecting directly onto the retina, training required)

 

Future-style furniture (Surface 2)


Direction of NUI

Evolving toward technology that mimics human behavior patterns.

Developing immersive equipment (investment in BCI and BMI is rising — the final destination is the brain)


Wearable glasses

They have influence and expectation because they come with an ecosystem platform and services.

* (Currently used mainly in extreme sports / focus is on projecting the incoming video)


Wearable issues

   Control (device-compatibility issues)

   Electromagnetic-wave concerns 


   Adidas heart-rate-monitoring bra


Invoked reality (Invoked ...)



MY: smart band

Picks up body signals and monitors them

Chip-implant blood-sugar sensor (bio-electric sensor)

Printing a PCD (PCE, board) instead of soldering / conductive ink

Low-power battery

XO brain


* Instead of fingerprint, identify by whether the capacitive pattern matches

* ECG, breathing, body temperature, heart rate + temperature, humidity, ozone level


* Cloud < "local network"

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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