Wearables in 2005

Filed in archive Technology on March 1, 2006

Bradley Rhodes and Kenji Mase bring to us an overview about wearables in 2005.

Read about RFID for context awareness (beside is the iGlove who uses RFID to track objects touched), interface evaluations, clothing design and recording events (and filtering tons of daily data).

From "Clothing design": "The project's goal was entirely aesthetic: one dress's hemline rises and lowers as if betraying or thwarting the wearer's secret desires, and brooch flowers open and close of their own accord on another dress's neckline. " Fascinating.

The full list of papers, including abstracts and PDFs, from the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library is available at www.computer.org/publications/dlib.