Wearable Computing: A First Step Toward Personal Imaging

نویسنده

  • Steve Mann
چکیده

Can you imagine hauling around a large, light-tight wooden trunk containing a co-worker or an assistant whom you take out only for occasional, brief interaction. For each session, you would have to open the box, wake up (boot) the assistant, and afterward seal him back in the box. Human dynamics aside, wouldn’t that person seem like more of a burden than a help? In some ways, today’s multimedia portables are just as burdensome.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IEEE Computer

دوره 30  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1997