A five-year review of methods, purposes and domains of the international symposium on wearable computing

Abstract

This paper presents a structured survey of 119 publications from the proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) from 2013 until 2017. This survey is based upon a classification schema used by many others in HCI research, originating in the field of Information Systems. After a pilot survey, the original classification schema was modified slightly to incorporate a more current perspective of wearables research. An extra dimension was added to the classification of research methods pertaining to the Research Domains, in order to provide a more insightful overview of the field. A survey of publications between the years 2013 to 2017 was completed by classifying the research method, purpose and domain with multiple coders. An analysis of the research methods and purposes, and domains of ISWC is presented. Additionally, the citation impact of ISWC publications is evaluated and compared over these dimensions. Current tendencies of the research presented at ISWC are identified with focus on the contextual setting of the research. Opportunities for future research at ISWC are identified.

Designing ultra-personalized product service systems

“…Software and stakeholders face challenges and opportunities as seen in the data flow of a UPPSS process. The system challenges can be observed when creating an overall picture of how the data and material interact in UPPSS (Nachtigall, Tetteroo, and Markopoulos 2018).…”

“…To understand the effect of the UPPSS game, an inter-coder agreement method was used (Kjeldskov and Paay 2012;Tetteroo and Markopoulos 2015;Nachtigall, Tetteroo, and Markopoulos 2018). Using Table 1 as an interpretative framework classification schema, an abbreviation was given to each challenge.…”

Enabling Multi-Material 3D Printing for Designing and Rapid Prototyping of Deformable and Interactive Wearables

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