Accenture Technology Labs, the technology research and development organization within Accenture, is at the intersection of business and technology, combining deep technical and scientific expertise with business know-how. At the Labs, we turn technology innovation into business results to help companies enhance organizational performance. At Accenture Technology Labs, we have a 16-year track record of envisioning the future, inventing and delivering the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions.

Aizawa Laboratory works mainly on image and video processing technology indispensable for next-generation information society. The related fields range from image acquisition to processing and application system, which depend on the way how to analyze the image and video information. The research topics of our laboratory include focusing defocused images, real-world 3D modeling, generation and retrieval of video contents out of ubiquitous media, computational image sensors and its applications, etc. We also work on the development of new media technology to make use of the recent environmental change such as the emergence of high-performance processor with low cost and abundant storage devices.

ASU researchers demonstrate wearable electronics to aid health and fashion at wired magazine's NextFest TEMPE, Ariz. – Soon you may be wearing your computer, or elements of it, according to a team of researchers and designers at Arizona State University. The era of smart bodysuits is about to begin. In a demonstration of integrated and embedded electronic sensors, power sources, microfluidic devices and pumps in clothes, the ASU researchers are showing off two versions of their “biometric bo ...

Department of Consumer Affairs Enhancing the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities is the goal of the Department of Consumer Affairs through its focus on consumers' interactions with their near physical environment. Faculty are actively involved with the teaching, research and outreach missions of Auburn University, Alabama's comprehensive land-grant university. State-of-the art research addresses issues of concern to individuals, families and communities; issues relatin ...

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) was established by the Commonwealth government in 1972 to generate and transfer the knowledge needed for the sustainable use and protection of the marine environment through innovative, world-class scientific and technological research. This web site has information about our research capabilities, laboratories, current projects and staff. Australian Institute of Marine Science PMB 3, Townsville MC Townsville 4810, Queensland, Australia Tel: (07) 4753 4444 Fax: (07) 4772 5852 Tel international: 617 4753 4444 Fax international: 617 4772 5852

BNMI supports research in creativity and transformation, linking arts and technology. We support basic and applied research. Researchers are welcome at all stages of a project and from across the social sciences, humanities, sciences and the arts. Researchers can partner with faculty at The Banff Centre or propose a project that the Centre can support. The Banff New Media Institute’s facilities, faculty and technical staff can support research in the areas of visualization, immersive experie ...

Founded in 1985 under the auspices of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia, the Cooperative Computing & Communication Laboratory (C-LAB) is a joint research and development laboratory operated by Siemens Business Services GmbH & Co OHG and the University of Paderborn. C-LAB's vision is based on the fundamental premise that the gargantuan challenges thrown up by the transition to a future information society can only be met through global cooperation and deep interworking of theory and practice. ...

Textiles The global fibre and textile industries are vibrant and diversified, ranking among the world's largest in terms of economic activity. Canesis, historically strong in wool textiles, today has well developed technical expertise across all fibres, from the most basic natural fabrics, to the highly technical "intelligent textiles". Canesis technologists, engineers and scientists, with their world class knowledge, experience and inventive skills, provide a highly valued technical consulta ...

About Coatnet Electronic textiles or e-textiles are a newly emerging interdisciplinary field of research which brings together specialists in information technology, microsystems, materials, and textiles. The focus of this new area is on developing the enabling technologies and fabrication techniques for the economical manufacture of large-area, flexible, conformable information systems which are expected to have unique applications for both consumer electronics and military industry. E-textile ...

The Wearable Group at Carnegie Mellon is an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems), the School of Computer Science (the Computer Science Department, Robotics Institute, and Human-Computer Interaction Institute), and the College of Fine Arts (the School of Design). Combining a decade of investigation into the architectural and interface requirements of ...

Project Title: Functional Fabric with Embedded Nanotube Actuators/Sensors Objective: Nanocrystals and nanostructures are often cited as candidate materials that can be engineered to exhibit enhanced or entirely new properties for use in different applications. Along this line of reasoning, this research plan proposes the development of next-generation functional fabrics (named here electronic textiles or e-textiles) utilizing single-walled carbon nanotube composites. This exciting area of re ...

Basic Research Clothing+ works to investigate and develop: Structures in fibers, yarns, textiles, shoes and accessories Data transfer, data storage, probes, joints, user interfaces and communication Packing and laundering properties of electronics Transfer and storage of electricity and heat Clothing+ also produces new applications of smart clothing technology and the required components. Clothing+ coordinates research of smart clothing in Finland and consults other researchers. The a ...

Objective Our research on MARS (Mobile Augmented Reality Systems) began in 1996, and is aimed at exploring the synergy of two promising fields of user interface research: Augmented reality (AR), in which 3D displays are used to overlay a synthesized world on top of the real world, and mobile computing, in which increasingly small and inexpensive computing devices, linked by wireless networks, allow us to to use computing facilities while roaming the real world. In exploring user interfaces, ...

East Carolina University researchers hope wireless computers will soon streamline the identification and tracking of mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus. The innovation, a combination of wireless Personal Digital Assistants and wearable computers, is a result of a partnership between ECU and the U.S. Army's Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. The goal of the project is to evaluate how wireless technology could speed the identification of mosquito species their habitats f ...

Electronic systems incorporated into textile threads or fibres Patent Number: US2004115430 Publication date: 2004-06-17 Inventor(s): LEONARD PHILIP NOEL (GB) Applicant(s): Requested Patent: US2004115430 Application Number: US20030474878 20031124 Priority Number(s): GB20010008950 20010410; WO2002GB01658 20020410 IPC Classification: H04B1/034; G02B6/44; D03D25/00; D03D15/00; D02G3/00; D04H1/00 EC Classification: G08B13/24B Equivalents: CA2443932, EP1377947 (WO02084 ...

Welcome to the Embedded Reasoning Institute. ERI is a research facility in Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. We explore innovative approaches to intelligent embedded processing, as it applied to pervasive devices. The ERI is a new research initiative for SNL in the area of intelligent wireless pervasive devices (i.e., smart sensors, compact single board and wearable computers, and wireless technologies). The ERI will explore and incorporate technologies from the areas of distribute ...

Contact Person: Thomas Stiefmeier Project Start: June 2004 Project Description wearIT@work was set up by the European Commission as an Integrated Project to investigate “Wearable Computing” as a technology dealing with computer systems integrated in clothing. wearIT@work will prove the applicability of computer systems integrated to clothes, the so-called wearables, in various industrial environments. These novel computer systems will support their users or groups of users in an unobtrusiv ...

Research at the Wearable Computing Lab. Wearable computing builds upon recent advances in computer miniaturization, wireless technology and internetworking to open up a new field of computing. The vision behind it is that a mobile computer should not just be a machine that we put into our pocket when we plan on doing some office work while on the road. Instead it will be an integral part of our every day outfit (hence wearable), always operational and equipped to assist us in dealing with a ...

Textiles that change colour in response to light or heat have appeared as fashion gimmicks - but the effects are typically diminished in a relatively short time by repeated wearing and washing. In the BRITE-EURAM SMARTEX project, techniques for grafting special functional groups onto polymer fibre molecules were used to produce similar characteristics, with improved durability and more practical applications. While Europe's textiles industry has difficulties in competing with the bulk commodity ...

Department of Automatic Control Engineering The Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE) was established in 1973. Two major fields, Measurement Technology and Automatic Control, under the IIE were the forerunner of the Department of Automatic Control Engineering. In 1974, to fulfill the needs of rapid economic and industrial development in Taiwan, the Department of Automatic Control Engineering was established to provide undergraduate training. In 1976, the Institute of Automatic Control Engin ...

Georgia Tech is a major center for advanced technology in Georgia and the Southeast. With faculty in excess of 1,900 and graduate students in excess of 4,500, the Institute conducts research of national significance, provides research services and facilities to faculty, students, industry, and government agencies, and supports the economic and technological growth of the state. Research operations are carried out through schools, centers, and laboratories, each performing research in a particula ...

The School of Textiles is implementing its strategy to become a leading institution in textile research and education. With its unique breadth of expertise in design, textile production processes, in garment manufacture, in colour chemistry and in technical textile it is able to cover all areas and integrate them into its new undergraduate and graduate programmes. The Research Institute for Flexible Materials is a new institute which catalyses world class research and industrial links to form ...

Textiles are increasingly developing into high tech products. Dr Stefan Mecheels, head of the Hohenstein Institutes since 1995, is therefore anticipating a boom in textile innovations in the coming decade which will involve all areas of life. An example of an intelligent textile is clothing with "integrated air-conditioning". These textiles incorporate extremely fine spherical paraffin "beads" which either melt or solidify depending on the surrounding temperature. Depending on whether it is col ...

Fashion Design and Technology Innovation, formerly entitled Apparel Product Development and Marketing, is one of the University's Areas of Strategic Development [ASD]. As the title Area of Strategic Development denotes, this is the strategic research focus of the Institute. Since its establishment in 1997, the ASD has carried out extensive research with excellent outputs. Substantial additional funding [more than $70 million] from external sources such as CERG, ITF, Contract Research and Joint ...

Human-Computer Interaction Institute - Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon has had a long history of successful research in areas relevant to human-computer interaction, including user-interface software tools, cognitive models, speech recognition, natural language understanding, computer graphics, gesture recognition, data visualization, intelligent agents, visual interface design, multimedia, computer-supported cooperative work, computer music and drama, intelligent tutors, technical w ...

Welcome, this is the home page of the Wearable Computing Platforms group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Members of our group are exploring several research challenges that arise in the area of user interface design, power management, input devices, wireless communication, sensors, and models for coexistence for pervasive devices and wearables. In August 2000, a team of IBM researchers, with skills in hardware design, operating systems, displays, electronic and mechanical pac ...

RESEARCH PROGRAM IN SMART TEXTILE AT IIT DELHI The Department of Textile Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India) is a premier research institution involved in developing both active smart and very active smart (intelligent) textile materials for apparel or technical applications into aerospace, defence, and sports. Conventional wearable (apparel) textiles are used to cover human body and function as a protective layer for the body from dust, sunlight, wind, and other co ...

Corporate Research explores semiconductor electronic technologies, circuits, and systems of the future for the benefit of Infineon Technologies AG. A mix of blue sky, high risk, and roadmap extension research projects covers a variety of subjects in exciting fields such as nanotechnology and nanodevices, bio- and molecular electronics, semiconductor photonics, ultra-low voltage and ultra-high speed circuits, innovative processor architectures, man-machine communication, or novel packaging and in ...

Although experts estimate a high potential for smart clothes applications in the future, so far there are no promising industrial applications at hand. In order to promote the development of smart clothes extensive collaboration of industry partners of the fields of fiber, fabric and clothing technologies together with research partners of the fields of information and micro system technologies has been launched. Technology - Platform for Smart Clothes The aim of this interdisciplinary collabo ...

Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Interaction-Ivrea) is an independent non-profit organisation, founded by Telecom Italia and Olivetti, and now part of the Progetto Italia initiative of Telecom Italia. Based in Ivrea, it offers a two-year Masters Programme in Interaction Design for participants from all over the world with prior college degrees in design, architecture, communications, computer science or psychology. Admission is based on a thorough selection process. Scholarships are available ...

As the first global Competence Network in Europe functioning under the theme of Wearable Electronics and Smart Products, ICEWES integrates research and development into the implementation of trend-setting ideas, creates a new community for intelligent applications and designs challenges for a paradigm shifting in innovation processes. Projects: Wellness, Health & Care Clothing that protects the well-being of the wearer, and increases his/her welfare. Protection & Security Clothing that st ...

Intelligent Textile Structures - Application, Production and Testing (ITSAPT) proposed by National Textile Centre (NTC) found at Technical university of Liberec and Research institute for Textile Machinery as one of European Centres of Excellence (CoE) under the research programme GROW-2001-5.1. Mission of ITSAPT is creation, coordination and enlargement of international and national networks of experts and research institutions dealing with intelligent and smart textiles (their design, produ ...

What is Wearable Computing? Wearable computing is a term we use to describe the basic technology for integrating electronics into clothing. Electronic assistants are supposed to be always available, without getting on the user's nerves. Clothes are part of our everyday life. For this reason they are extremely well suited for the integration of such assistants. IZM-expert Christine Kallmayer wants to make these assisting electronics "really wearable". To this end we are developing new interconn ...

LG Technology Center Moscow (LG TCM) is a division of LG Elite (LG Electronics Institute of Technology) and an official innovations and new technologies representative office of LG Electronics Inc. in the Russian Federation and CIS. The Company was established in 1995 and has gained publicity due to a great number of ideas and technologies not implemented in the territory of the FSU countries. At present, LG TCM operates its branches in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod , Novosibirsk and Kiev. To ...

Wearable / Mobile Computer Systems Research The Advanced VR Research Centre, Loughborough University are involved with the research and development of wearable and mobile computing environments for a range of exciting applications. This work has many aspects involving human factors, computer science, systems engineering and electronics. A key to our research is to achieve an improvement in human performance when users are enabled by modern mobile computer technologies. Overcoming the typically ...

MIT Media Lab: Things That Think Consortium TTT Vision Statement The goal of the Things That Think (TTT) consortium is to invent the future of digitally augmented objects and environments. We bring a unique, boundary-breaking perspective to research, uniting leaders in science, engineering, design, and art. Grounded by extensive corporate sponsor interaction, our prototypes and demonstrations aim to inspire the products and services of tomorrow. We invite forward-thinking sponsor companies and ...

Interaction Techniques for Mobile and Wearable Technology Interaction Techniques for Mobile and Wearable Technology is an NRC-IIT research project which originated in October 2001 within the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow and moved, in part, to NRC in November 2002 where it continues with informal collaboration with its former institution. The aim of this project is to investigate all facets of alternative interaction techniques for use with mobile and wearable de ...

The National Textile Center (NTC) is a research consortium of eight universities: Auburn University, Clemson University, Cornell University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, UC - Davis, UMass - Dartmouth, Cornell University and Philadelphia University. The institutions share human resources, equipment and facilities. Serving the USA Fiber/Textile/Fiber Products/Retail Complex, the NTC vision, mission and goals are realized through innovate research and links t ...

NEST is a Nordic Research centre for Smart Textiles and Wearable Technologies. The mission is to bring the leading smart textiles and wearable technology know how of the Nordic and the Baltic region under one umbrella. The strategy is to combine cross-scientifically textiles, clothing physiology, electronics, communications, material science and other research resources of the member laboratories and institutes. CLAN (Clothing Area Network) A research project aiming to develop a technical conc ...

Research outline of the division of Cognitive Engineering Research themes Since the definition for the NICI Division of Cognitive Ergonomics, the computational environment has changed quite a bit. One change is obvious: average computer memory and CPU speed have increased by a factor of ten, and computers have become as much a household commodity as was once the TV set. We enter a decade where this quantitative change will be paralleled by a qualitative change that is even more dramatic: Lapto ...

NMRC is today the premier ICT research Institute in Ireland with a fundamental mission to perform strategic research in specific ICT fields that will fuel development of core technology platforms and enable Irish industry to create innovative next generation ICT products and applications. The Institute’s strategic ICT research agenda encompasses research initiatives in photonics, nanotechnology, microtechnologies and ICT/Bio. Strategic research programmes are highly interdisciplinary, involving ...

Current Projects at NC State An Acoustic Array as an Example of a Large Scale Electronic Textile The subject research is being carried out at the College of Textiles as a part of a DARPA funded research project on Electronic Textiles. The objective is to build a new paradigm of flexible and conformable textile-based electronics that can be used in medical, military, robotics, and other civilian applications. Electro-textiles - Present and Future Electro-textiles have attracted increasing a ...

Founded in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1914, Philips Research ­as part of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. has expanded the scale and scope of its activities to become one of the world's major private research organizations. With laboratories in five different countries (The Netherlands, England, Germany, China and the United States) and staffed by around 2,100 people, our common vision is to create technologies that will lead to products for improving people's lives. Our activities have ...

Sensors and Smart Materials Research High Temperature Sensors Development of sapphire optical fiber for IR transmission and very high temperature applications These sensors are used as stress/strain sensors, or for temperature measurement Stress & Strain Sensors Sensors are embedded into various materials (ceramic, polymer and metallic) and structures for in-situ and real-time analysis These sensors are used to evaluate the integrity of the structure as a real-time monitoring network to predict structural weakness Smart Textiles Smart vest with integrated optical fibers and electronic wires for sensing environmental changes such as temperature and chemicals Smart fabrics ranging from woven and non-woven to knitted structures designed for medical and military applications

Ubiquitous Computing Technology Body Centric WLANs for Wearable and Ubiquitous computing technology The development of wearable computer systems has been growing rapidly. These are becoming smaller and more lightweight: no one wants to wear a bulky and heavy computer all day! We will soon see a wide range of unobtrusive wearable and ubiquitous computing equipment integrated to into our everyday clothes. In a possible wearable computer, the monitor/display would be on a pair of glasses, the k ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE) is advancing the electronic devices of our everyday lives. By making significant contributions to the science and technology of interconnects, devices, architectures, and packaging, CIE is accelerating the production of the next generation of micro- and nanoelectronic devices and systems. The Center's mission is to build integrated top-down and bottom-up nanostructures, devices, and systems for information, biological, ...

Welcome to my website. My name is Melekam Tsegaye and I am a graduate student in Computer Science at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. My interest areas in Computer Science are Mobile, Pervasive, Ubiquitous and Wearable computing 2D/3D Graphics Programming Languages: C#, C/C++, Java and others Device Driver Development I have also been known to do some UNIX System Administration (Linux,FreeBSD) and Web Development (Php, Mysql) Hope you'll find the site useful. Have a look at the research and other projects pages where you will find my current and past works. If you have any comments, send them to g98t4414@campus.ru.ac.za.

The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre works to advance a socially inclusive approach to design through practical research and projects with industry. The Helen Hamlyn Research Centre was set up at the Royal College of Art in January 1999 to alert designers and industry to the far-reaching implications of a rapidly changing society. A society in which there are growing numbers of older and disabled people, radical shifts in working patterns, and mounting pressure on mobility and other public servic ...

SINTEF Health Research is the Norwegian member of the network, which has four other Nordic members in addition to one from Lithuania. The six research institutes cover such disciplines as textile technology, physiology, electronics and sensor technology. The goal is smart textiles – materials in which sensors and electronics, in the form of fine threads or wires, can warn the wearer of changes in body-state and the environment. “Until now, electronics has been incorporated in clothing in the s ...

SRI’s vision is to find engineering solutions to challenges in: Medical Bio-Fluidics Electronic System Reliability Aerospace Sensors Through its multidisciplinary fundamental research, consultancy and testing the Institute looks for solutions in the most advanced fields of human endeavour. Research Project: Smart Composite Structures using Fabry Perot Cavities Smart materials are materials with a built-in sensing network able to monitor continuously the material’s condition. Sever ...

Wearable computers are a special case of mobile computers. They are either embedded in clothing, or they may even be the clothing. They are very personal in nature, being always with the user, always on and always ready. The aim in developing wearable computers is to provide the user with instant and easy-to-use access to digital information sources anytime, anywhere. Wearable computers are a potential platform for several location-aware software applications. One such application is a personal ...

In 2002, the European Commission has selected the project Intelligent Textile Structures - Application, Production and Testing (ITSAPT) proposed by National Textile Centre (NTC) found at Technical university of Liberec and Research institute for Textile Machinery as one of European Centres of Excellence (CoE) under the research programme GROW-2001-5.1. Mission of ITSAPT is creation, coordination and enlargement of international and national networks of experts and research institutions dealing ...

INSTYTUT WLÓKIENNICTWA - IW [Textile Research Institute] is the oldest research and development centre acting within textile area in Poland. It has been cooperating with many scientific centres in Poland and abroad: in Denmark, Germany, Russia, France. Within over 50-year-old-history of IW and its research activity development five significant stages can be differentiated. Each of them is characterized with individual form and research activity scope, each is directly connected with scientific ...

U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center-Natick Welcome to the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center. Located in Natick, Massachusetts, and known locally as the Natick Labs, Natick is a recognized leader in the Army's campaign to assure the decisive materiel edge for the 21st century warrior. Natick is an installation of the U.S. Army Soldier & Biological Chemical Command headquarted at Edgewood Area, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Natick strives to develop, integrate, acquire and sustain all so ...

Wearable Computing With technical development a computer today can be wearable just like our clothing. Unlike normal desktop computers, a wearable computer is always on and ready to help the user. To react as we do in a normal situation, a wearable computer has to experience the life of the user. Therefore, a wearable computer must be able to "see" as the user sees and "hear" as the user hears. Wearable video is such a way for a wearable computer to experience what the user is seeing. A key component of wearable computers is a digital video camera which is normally mounted on the head of the user. Our research interests are: 1. To develop power-efficient and error-robust video compression and transmission techniques. 2. Real-time distributed video computing.

Welcome to Högskolan i Borås (the University College of Borås, UCB). In the following presentation, with links to the different Schools and their activities, we hope to give you a good, all-round picture of UCB, its educational programmes, its research and its international undertakings. Interaction design, the textile and fashion track, explores the area where textile and fashion design, information technology and advanced textile fibres are combined to form new concepts and products. As com ...

mobile and wearable technologies This project was established at Abertay as a result of a collaboration between the EPICentre and IC-CAVE, and targets the use of wearable computers for public information access applications. The first stage of the project deals with the Wearable Infotainment concept, and integrates existing wearable computers with wireless communication systems (W-LAN, Bluetooth, GPRS) and location systems. It aims to study and make innovative use of existing technologies in t ...

The HCI Research Group at the University of Bath is part of the Department of Computer Science. The group undertakes research and teaching, undergraduate and postgraduate, in a wide variety of aspects of interactive and multimodal computer systems. Faculty staff include Peter Johnson, Hilary Johnson, Eamonn O'Neill, and Leon Watts with overlapping interests held by David Pym, Phil Willis, Claire Willis and Peter Hall. Members of the group have an extensive range of interests, including: task ...

Welcome to the Wear-IT.net website. This site is devoted to The University of Birmingham Engineering's growing area of technology known as wearable computing, or what could be thought of as Wearable IT! (Wearable Information Technology). Wearable technology is becoming increasingly used by everyone, from mobile phones to PDA's. Perhaps, because of the gradual development of these technologies, they are not often thought of as wearable technology- an idea saved for the likes of 'The Borg' from S ...

As the technology for integrating computer and communication systems matures there will be greater emphasis on developing appropriate services and applications. This MSc. seeks to strike a balance between advanced study of heterogeneous network infrastructure and computing systems and the study of the development of applications for new devices and technologies (mobile, ubiquitous, wearable). The success of the next generation of mobile systems will depend largely on the ability of the industry ...

The Center for Computing Technologies c/o University of Bremen (TZI) has an elaborate history doing research and development in the area of mobile information processing - focusing on the potential of wearable computing in the field of industrial application. One core task in this context is to reveal the huge innovative potential of cutting edge mobile technology and, furthermore, to transform this potential into an economically useful startup company. Wearable computing touches a variety of re ...

The Bristol Wearable Computing Project is concerned with exploring the potential of computer devices that are as unconsciously portable and as personal as clothes or jewellery. The project was set up in Bristol, England at the start of 1997 as a collaboration between the Computer Science Department of the University of Bristol and the Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, Europe. Together we have developed programs and hardware which use context sensing to enable media and information to be del ...

Someday soon, dressing smartly may take on a whole new meaning. Electronic textiles--fabric containing microprocessors, sensors, and actuators--could lead to shirts with pores that automatically open and close depending on the temperature, army fatigues with chameleon-like color-changing properties, or tents that sniff out environmental contaminants. Josei Lee, a UC Berkeley graduate student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and Professor Vivek Subramanian recently built the world ...

Virtual Reality to Go, Wearable Computing is defined as next generation computing which is expected to seamlessly blend computing embodied within the human-body. New miniaturized devices are appearing in fashion shows and movies, leading to new awareness of computing which can extend the boundaries of human-computer interaction. Miniaturized head-mounted displays and eye-glasses, watches, jackets, and PDAs are some examples of such technology combining VR with VLSI technology. MIT Media Lab a ...

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering provides students with the tools needed to produce cutting-edge technologies in the electronics and computer systems industries. Electrical engineers often work in teams and perform a variety of tasks such as designing components and systems, planning and organizing engineering tasks, and directing groups of engineers and technicians. Electrical engineers work in a broad range of engineering-related fields or pursue graduate education in eng ...

The Vision and Synthetic Environments Laboratory ("VASE Lab") of the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering of the University of Essex is where people explore all things virtual. As its name suggests, a central theme of the research in the Lab is the overlap between computer vision and virtual reality. Within the Lab there is particular expertise in in real-time, vision-based position-finding; and in untethered VR, augmented reality and wearable computers. You can find out more about what we do by looking at our projects page. Some demonstrations of our work are also online, and we make available some of our software for you to use in your own research.

Wearable Computing Project: Drishti: A Pedestrian Navigation System for the Blind in Dynamic Environments When visually impaired people walk around campus and downtown areas, they do so lacking critical information that can affect their safty and travel experience. With limited awareness of thier surroundings, blind people often find it difficult to perform the simplest daily chores or to even take a walk in a sunny day. The DRISHTI project led by Professor Helal at the University of Florida a ...

GIST is an inter-disciplinary Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research group based at the University of Glasgow investigating all aspects of interactive systems focusing on mobility, multimodal interaction, visualisation and modelling. The main research topics and sub-groups (and academics leading them) are: Multimodal Interaction Group (Stephen Brewster) Ubicomp and Visualisation (Matthew Chalmers) Technology for Learning and Teaching (Steve Draper) Software, Technology, Tools and Methods (Phil Gray) Glasgow Accident Analysis Group (Chris Johnson) Dynamics and Interaction (Rod Murray-Smith) Diagram Evaluation (Helen Purchase) Alternative Authentification (Karen Renaud)

Details Of Masel's Research Program Presently Masel's group is concentrating on four areas, microchemical systems, catalysis in fuel cells, engineering approximations in kinetics, environmental catalysis. In the microchemical systems area we are building small chip scale chemical reactors for fuel conversion, smart clothing and personal heat sources. We are also examining microfuel cells as battery replacements. In the fuel cell area, we are examining the molecular basis of CO tolerance in fuel ...

Some of the research programs covered include: 2002 -2005 MeMoGa Proact -research programme Methods and models for intelligent garment design: Interdisciplinary approach to accessible and usable wearable products 2001 -2003 I-sport Intelligent clothing design for recreational sports and the well-being of the fitness enthusiast extreme sports enthusiasts’ needs and expectations from their clothing and gear are surveyed. The primary focus is on the well-being and safety of those aiming at ...

The School of Materials incorporates the Materials Science Centre, Textiles and Paper and the Corrosion and Protection Centre at UMIST. This new School has around 700 students and more than 60 academic staff, and is the biggest single Materials group in any European University. It has a very wide range of subject coverage including: polymers, metals, natural and synthetic fibres, and ceramics. The Materials Science Centre (www.man.ac.uk/materials) has an excellent reputation within the internat ...

The proliferation of portable electronics devices provides the possibility for individuals to have constant access to communication, informational, and computational resources. This variety of access has promised to increase the efficiency with which we perform not only our jobs, but also the range of tasks that we face in our daily lives. Today, we derive much benefit from cellular phones, pagers, and palm-top and lap-top computers, but in their current form of implementation, there exists se ...

The Wearable Computing group at University of Oregon has been active since 1995. Our focus is the design, development and evaluation of wearable and mobile computing technology for facilitating and augmenting human collaboration. Our current projects include: Wearable Communities. This project investigates the use of cutting-edge mobile and wearable computing technology to assist people during social face-to-face encounters in the real world: when people meet on the way to the office, in the ...

University of Pisa Interdepartmental Research Center "E. Piaggio" Kinesthetic sensing and smart fabrics The fabrication of smart electronic and electromechanical systems onto substrates which are not only flexible but ideally conformable to the human body may represent a breakthrough in various areas of application and may open new areas in man-machine interface technology, such as ergonomics and rehabilitation engineering. We have shown that conducting polymer coated fabrics show piezo and ...

Swanson Center for Micro and Nano Systems The Swanson Center for Micro and Nano Systems represents the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering's focus on applied research into micro and nano systems. Ongoing Projects PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING USING A CLAMPED CIRCULAR PLATE FOR REMOTE SENSORS AND PORTABLE ELECTRONICS Energy harvesting using piezoelectric material is not a new concept, but its small generation capability has not been attractive for mass energy generation. For this ...

Wearable Computer Lab Welcome to the web site of the Wearable Computer Lab. We are located at the School of Computer and Information Science at the University of South Australia. The university campus is situated to the north of Adelaide in Australia, at approximately S34 48.640' E138 37.201'. The Wearable Computer Lab performs research in a number of areas, mostly wearable computers, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Our lab was started in 1998 and since then has grown into being a maj ...

In an innovative collaborative venture, the Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London are seeking to develop sustainable solutions to the care and conservation of contemporary fabrics. Techno-textiles and smart fabrics are at the cutting edge of technology developments. These textiles are entering museum collections as examples of fine art, haute couture and high-tech sportswear as well as innovative medical and industrial equipment. The Vict ...

ISI research divisions and groups cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to investigate a broad range of advanced topics in computer science, information technology, and electrical engineering. ISI researchers design, model, and implement systems. Their goals include: New core technologies, along with supporting architectures, toolkits, and testbeds for deployment in real-world applications, leading to fully integrated practical prototypes that can be employed as is, or adapted for national ...

Cybernetic Research Collective The Cybernetic Research Collective (CRC) is a research organization that specializes in the emerging field of Mediated Reality (Med-R), that is made possible through EyeTap technology. The collective combines academic research, commercial product development, and a critical art practice, to develop Mediated Reality concepts and application while exploring the ethical concerns that they create. The Humanistic Intelligence Laboratory and Existential Technology Research Center are both part of the CRC. The CRC Mission Developing world class leading research Providing innovative education Servicing the community

One of the broad trends emerging in advanced human-computer interaction is the increasing portability of computing and communication facilities. Wearable computers are the next generation of portable machines. Worn on the body, they provide constant access to computing and communications resources. Wearable computer research at the HIT Lab is focused in two directions; intuitive interfaces for wearable computers, and using wearable computers to enhance collaborative work. Many of the target ap ...

During 2002 IPRI consolidated a strategic research Alliance with CSIRO (Textile and Fibre Technology) in Geelong. In a collaborative project involving Prof Julie Steele's Biomechanics Research Centre at UoW, wearable direct biofeedback devices have been developed. These polymer coated textile based devices provide feedback on body movement, providing information that is invaluable during training and rehabilitation routines. The initial focus is the use of a knee sleeve in training routines that ...

At TecO we are currently working on a number of projects in the field of wearable computing. Our Main Research Topics are: Context-Aware wearable computing New Interaction Metaphores Minimizing the Gap Between Physical Objects and the Virtual World Current Projects: Wearable Computing Logistics Wearable Context-Awareness Component

VDC is a technology market research and strategy firm. The company was founded in 1971 by graduates of the Harvard Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We have over 30 years of experience in providing market research, strategic analysis and consulting services to technology companies worldwide. Our Mission The VDC mission is to provide our clients with strategic and tactical information that satisfies real needs and will provide lasting value, fostering client loyalt ...

RESEARCH SUMMARY Since 1971 Venture Development Corporation (VDC) has provided market research and strategy development services to the industrial and information technology, electronics and communications industries. Within this study, we are turning our attention to the emerging market for smart fabrics and interactive textiles. Earlier this year, VDC published a market study on wearable computers. One product category analyzed in this report was wearable/clothing based (integrated) computer ...

Electronic textiles (e-textiles) are fabrics that have electronics and interconnections woven into them, with physical flexibility and size that cannot be achieved with existing electronic manufacturing techniques. Components and interconnections are intrinsic to the fabric and thus are less visible and not susceptible to becoming tangled together or snagged by the surroundings. E-textiles can be worn in everyday situations where currently available wearable computers would hinder the user. An e ...

Background Research into wearable intelligence, intelligent clothing and wearable user interfaces are among the targets of the Intuitive Environments research group at VTT Information Technology. Our research group is part of the Human Interaction Technologies research field and our focus is on the views and needs of users. There is a lot happening in the active field of wearable user interfaces and wearable technology today and these current developments also boost our research. So far, data ...