User Interfaces for Wearable Computers: Development and Evaluation

✍ Scribed by Hendrik Witt (auth.)

• Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the last decades, desktop computers for professional and consumer applications have become a quasi standard. However, the last few years have been dominated by a new trend in computing: the mobile use of computers. Wearable computers, which are a special kind of mobile computer, assist their users in managing primarily physical tasks.

Hendrik Witt examines user interfaces for wearable computers and analyses the challenges imposed by the wearable computing paradigm through its dual-task character. He discusses solutions for the development and evaluation of user interfaces which can be used in dual task scenarios. The author presents fundamental research results and introduces a special software tool as well as the “HotWire” evaluation method to facilitate user interface development and evaluation. Based on the findings of different end-user experiments conducted to study the management of interruptions with gesture and speech input in a wearable computing scenario, the author derives design guidelines and general constraints for forthcoming interface designs.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Interdisciplinary Foundations....Pages 11-20
Fundamentals of Perception and Cognition....Pages 21-35
Human-Computer Interaction....Pages 37-62
Context-Awareness and Adaptive User Interfaces....Pages 63-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
An Approach for Developing Wearable User Interfaces....Pages 75-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
The HotWire Apparatus....Pages 91-104
Interruption Methods for Gesture Interaction....Pages 105-124
Interruption Methods for Speech Interaction....Pages 125-146
Visual Feedback and Frames of Reference for Gesture Interaction....Pages 147-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
The Wearable User Interface Toolkit....Pages 173-206
Applications....Pages 207-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Conclusions and Final Remarks....Pages 221-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-273

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general