Wearable Computing

Our group designs, invents, builds and uses wearable computers and digital prosthesis in ordinary day-to-day settings. Cybernetics draws upon electrical engineering, mathematics, control theory, biology and psychology to build feedback loops that include both technology and humans.

Please follow the links above to find out more about our specific projects.

Please see the links at http://about.eyetap.org for detailed information on designing, building, and using wearable computers.

• Kodak Lecture Series: EyeTap Technology
• Wristwatch Computer
• Humanistic Intelligence: WearComp as a new framework for Intelligent Signal Processing
• WearHow: How to Build a Version of WearComp6 (see also an earlier article on WearComp5)
• The Wyckoff Principle: extending dynamic range by combining differently exposed images
• Headmounted Wireless Video: an introduction to the notion of Personal Imaging
• Wearable Computing: A First Step Toward Personal Imaging : summary of my last 20 years as a "photographic cyborg" ( feature article from IEEE Computer, Feb. 1997, Vol. 30, No. 3)
• Existential Technology of Synthetic Synesthesia for the Visually Challenged : wearable radar with vibrotactile output, etc.
• Eudaemonic Eye
• Smart Clothing: The "Wearable Computer" and WearCam
• An Historical Account of the WearComp Inventions Developed for Applications in "Personal Imaging"
• WearStation: A wearable amateur radio station
• Video Orbits of the Projective Group: the mathematical theory behind "Personal Imaging" (also available as a PDF and in an earlier version (PostScript format)
• Netcam: an Introduction to WearCam Online
• "Smart" Clothing: a good introduction to read before the next item....
• A controversial critique of environmental intelligence and ubiquitous surveillance versus personal intelligence: "Smart clothing": Wearable Multimedia Computing and "Personal Imaging" to restore the technological balance between people and their environments (how wearable technologies can protect our privacy and freedom as the world around us becomes "smarter" and more intrusive)
• WearComp mission statement (published in CACM; Vol.39,8; August 1996)
• "Photoquantigraphy" with AGC: Joint Parameter Estimation in both Domain and Range of Functions in Same Orbit of the Projective-Wyckoff Group: this paper pertains to creating high resolution radiance maps, by combining differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter in order to extend dynamic range. (Based on an earlier 1993 paper published in IS&T.)
• Wearable, Tetherless, Computer-Mediated Reality (with possible future applications to the disabled) (Feb. 2, 1996, adapted to paper presented at AAAI, Nov. 1996): background information on WearCam/WearComp
  This is an extended version of Wearable Tetherless Computer-Mediated Reality: WearCam as a Wearable Face-Recognizer, and other applications for the disabled (including the Visual Memory Prosthetic)
• How to build a version of the WearComp5 for under $400 if you already have a laptop computer
• The Chirplet Transform: a generalization of the wavelet transform with applications in image processing, imaging, radar, wearable radar (e.g. the BlindVision project), etc.
• Algebraic Projective Geometry and "Periodicity in Perspective"
• Adaptive Chirplet Transform
• The Chirplet Transform: A Generalization of Gabor's Logon Transform