Psychophysical elements of wearability

Dunne, Lucy E.; Smyth, Barry

doi:10.1145/1240624.1240674

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“…When sensors are embedded in garment platforms, inaccurate results of vital-sign sensing which need to be close to user's skin could be occurred [65]. Consequently, as the loose fit structure and elasticized material of garment platforms cannot sustain the enough and concrete form, in many cases, garment platforms were composed of skin-tight silhouette to maintain the proximity between user's body and sensors to minimize the external variables in the sensing [66]. However, skin-tight shapes would not be physically and socially comfortable [11].…”

Section: Platform Design Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

A study on the development of a user-focused multi-functional convergence-smart-fashion product

Lee

2020

Heliyon

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Keywords:Convergence between fashion design and engineering Electronic-fashion Multi-functional fashion Smart-fashion Wearable technology Engineering Electrical engineering Art Performing arts A B S T R A C TThe attempts of combining fashion and technology together to provide digital functionalities at the closest distance users has been continued based on context-aware computing and wearable sensing. Through such convergence, the productive benefits of user-oriented computing and the expansion of traditional fashion functionality can be achieved. In this study, we aim to investigate the optimized way for the development of convergence-smart-fashion prototypes that provide user-oriented multi-functionality to increase the potential features of fashion and widen the application scope of related technologies. Through research and development (R&D), we developed four convergence prototypes which could provide four different functions: 1) Reardetection, which detects vehicles or people approaching from rear-side and warns the user through vibrations. 2) Bluetooth hands-free provides remote-control functions, such as phone-call and sound-streaming. 3) Vitalsignal monitoring, which measures and displays user's heart-beat rates and body heat through a built-in-screen and smartphone application for a user's health-care. The development was proceeded based on the following steps: the determination of the basic usability as a garment and its related practical digital functions, the minimization of the size of the system modules which could be easily assembled and disassembled to ease washability, and the system maintenance, which could help to diversify the usage of convergence fashion.

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Section: Platform Design Processmentioning

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A study on the development of a user-focused multi-functional convergence-smart-fashion product

Lee

2020

Heliyon

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“…Better understanding of mid-air gestural interaction can be attained through a holistic approach to the topic. Putting aside technical challenges [13], there are many psychical [8], psychological [4] and psychophysical [6] aspects of using different approaches and sensors to achieve mid-air gestural interface. General "rule of thumb" of HCI and interaction design is that user interface and appropriate interaction model must be unobtrusive, inconspicuous and designed in such a way that imposes minimal cognitive load on the user [9], hence user interface should enable users to act and feel natural [25].…”

Section: Bimanual Mid-air Interaction Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hindrances of bimanual mid-air interaction are related to both human factors on the one side and sensor devices and model of their usage on the other. Regarding the sensor devices, in their paper about psychophysical elements of wearability, Dunne and Smith argue that "wearability can be seen as essential both to the willingness of the user to accept and use a wearable device, and to the ability of the device to actually provide a cognitive aid" [6] thus wearability "becomes an essential part of the humancomputer interface" [6]. Innately, wearable sensor devices are not natural and as such generally impose limitations on the user making the experience of the interaction less natural by limiting the range of movements or forcing the user to apply additional muscle strain.…”

Section: Bimanual Mid-air Interaction Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

Leap Motion Sensor for Natural User Interface

et al. 2019

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In Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research area, there is an increasing tendency to make devices as simple and as natural as possible for use. These devices are aiming to make input and output techniques, interaction, etc., easier. In the input domain, sensors monitor and interpret head, eye, face and even whole body movements. Interacting with the computer, hands are the most effective tool of general purpose, due to their functionality in communication and manipulation. Using hands as an input device is an attractive method for ensuring interaction between man and computer. This paper gives an overview of the Leap Motion devices as a technology that enables natural interaction between man and computer in NUI (natural user interface) implementation. The main idea to maximize the naturalness of the user environment and the use of hand movements is in the application of the sensor fusion of two Leap Motion devices. Applying sensor fusion of two Leap Motion devices will increase the range of hand movement and the interaction within the environment, which will again contribute to the natural user interface (NUI). The suggested method can be used offline or in real time, and can benefit from a wide range of applications, where the gesture of the hand and fingers is the focus of significance and estimation effect.

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“…It is known that comfort aspects play an important role when dealing with wearable devices [7], an interesting aspect with this device resides in the fact that it is very light. Indeed this interface weight less than 10% of a shoe weight.…”

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Use of Foot for Direct Interactions with Entities of a Virtual Environment Displayed on a Mobile Device

Ménélas¹,

Otis²

2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

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Abstract-With this paper, we report a novel wearable interface dedicated to provide new types of 3D interactions with mobile devices. Proposed interface is based on the fact that the foot can be exploited in the interaction with a virtual 3D world. By using several force sensors incorporated in the sole and an accelerometer attached to the shoe; gestures performed with the foot are interpreted in order to let the user interact with a 3D virtual environment. Being located inside a shoe this interface is fully compatible to constraints related to mobile devices. Indeed as a wearable and transparent device it can be carried everywhere and therefore can be exploited everywhere.

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Psychophysical elements of wearability

Cited by 57 publications

References 14 publications

A study on the development of a user-focused multi-functional convergence-smart-fashion product

A study on the development of a user-focused multi-functional convergence-smart-fashion product

Leap Motion Sensor for Natural User Interface

Use of Foot for Direct Interactions with Entities of a Virtual Environment Displayed on a Mobile Device

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