- ...Dept.
- Author may now be reached at
University of Toronto,
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, 10 King's College Road
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M5S 3G4,
mann@eecg.toronto.edu;
Project funded, in part, by the Council
for the Arts at MIT, by HP labs,
Palo Alto, and by BT, PLC.
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- ...
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I have named this criterion
in honor of the Eudaemons,
a group of west-coast
physicists who pioneered unobtrusive
wearable computers.
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- ...herself
- More precisely, what is meant here is the
notion of self, from the perspective of the
individual, which defines a
physical boundary between the self
and the environment. This boundary
is called the `corporeal boundary' [2]
and is related to the concept
of ``prosthetic territory''[3].
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- ...roulette
- The term ``cheating'' was not particularly appropriate
here, as there was an element of doubt surrounding
the morals and ethics of the casino establishments themselves.
Thus the Eudaemons were regarded by
many as heroes in a world of villains who might have killed or
``disappeared'' them had they discovered their methodology.
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- ...radio
- At this time, I was a high-school
student on very limited budget,
therefore much of the components and methodology were based on
surplus materials and borrowed equipment.
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- ...assistant
- Because of the tedious nature of this procedure, many
assistants found this work boring. While the excitement of the project
drew in many first-time volunteer assistants, I had difficulty
finding assistants who would go on subsequent expeditions.
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- ...transceivers
- These were low-cost
units typically marketed as children's toys,
with a power output of
approximately 100 milliwatts, operating
in the 11 meter band), two attached to the body,
and two situated at the base station.
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- ...etc.
- The author's work with Dr. Ghista of McMaster
University, which involved designing and building patient
monitoring hardware and software, was partially responsible
for much of the early inspiration in combining biological
sensing with wearable computing.
Later work during
a Biomedical Engineering course, which I took
from Dr. Hubert DeBruin of McMaster University,
and after that,
discussions with Prof. R.W. Picard,
and others when I arrived
at MIT, have further influenced my thinking
on wearable computing combined with biological sensing.
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- ...item
- This early effort pointed toward a later effort of the
mid 1980s when I was to make an attempt at making wearable
computing fashionable, and be represented through
two modeling agencies. By 1985, I had established a
following in certain parts of the fashion industry.
However, after various fashion shows and the like,
I decided that function was more important than form,
and changed my focus from design back to art and science.
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- ...four
- If I were weaving this myself, I would introduce a fifth,
made from loops of cloth, to use as a privacy/chaff layer for secure
WearComp.
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- ...cameras
- The sense in which smart clothing is unobtrusive to
these security cameras[17]
is that the clothing behaves like clothing should -
it's nontransparent.
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- ...and [#starner97##1#]
- Starner, Levine,
and others have, independently of the author,
put forth the idea of using the finger as a pointing device.
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- ...store
- While there have been previous augmented reality
implementations of `Post-It' notes, the approach presented
here is novel in that it attains sub-pixel accuracy
through the use of the homographic
modeling/personal imaging approach.
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