Wearable Technology: Past, Present, and Future

This research paper explores the evolution of wearable technology, examining its historical roots, current applications, and future potential. It delves into the key themes driving wearable technology, including natural interfaces, context-awareness, and automated capture. The paper analyzes various research articles that highlight the impact of wearable technology on human interaction, smart devices, and everyday life. It also investigates the role of wearable technology in enhancing the quality of life, particularly in healthcare and organizational settings. The research concludes by discussing the future directions of wearable technology, emphasizing its potential to revolutionize various aspects of human experience.

Wearable technology: The past,
present and future
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Wearable technology
 Wearable technologies are specific for physical activities.
 It based on three themes:
 Natural Interfaces
 Application with context-awareness
 Automated Capture

Aims
 Aim of this research:
 Introduce the types of devices with their physical space
 Wearable technology role with smart devices
 Define the impact of wearable technology in regular life.
 Examine the wearable technology in past, present and future.

Research Question
 Where does the wearable technology is rises with human
interaction?
 Do the smart devices render to the wearable technology?
 How it can be improve the today’s environment with wearable
technology?

Key Research Articles
First research article “” From backpacks to
smartphones: past, present, and future of wearable
computers”
 This article discuss about the wearable computers
 Mobile computing that how it relate to the wearable technology.
 Define the computer vision and their availability
 This article also help to understand the wearable computing
implementation in real life.

Continued…
Second article “Enhancing the quality of life through
wearable technology”
 With this article, the biomedical telemetry is defined
 It also define the computing role for diagnostics
 Smart shirt, is introduced with implementing the wearable
technology.

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Third research article “Charting past, present, and future
research in ubiquitous computing”
 This article is discussed about the human-centered computing.
 Define the interaction between the human and computers by
wearable technology.
 To implement the wearable technology, it introduce the
evaluation method.

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Fourth research article is “Digital jewelry: wearable
technology for everyday life”
 This research article is define the HCI process for computing.
 Embedded system and cyber-system is defined.
 It introduce the wearable technology in regular life in today
environment.
 In this paper, the digital jewellery is proposed to explore the
wearable technology.

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Article technology “Sensible organizations: technology
and methodology for automatically measuring
organizational behavior”
 It introduce the wearable computers, wearable sensors, and social
network services .
 Wearable computers is introduced by the mobile and wearable
computing.
 This paper is based on the wearable technology for the
organizational aspects.
 In this paper, the author is proposed the wearable technology
based platform for 22 employees.

Timeline of research
Task Description Start Date End date Complete Deliverable
Oral Presentation 4-May-2018 6-May-2018 yes Oral presentation
completed
Review the articles based
on wearable technology.
7-May-2018 22-May-2018 Yes Review process
complete
Prepare Proposal 25-May-2018 1-June_2018 Yes Proposal
Completed
Consult with supervisor 1--June-2018 1-June-2018 Yes Update the
Proposal
Finalise the proposal 2-june-2018 3-June-2018 Yes Submitted
Review more research
article
4-June-2018 9-June-2018 Yes Article reviewed

Continued…
Task Description Start Date End date Complete Deliverable
Select best technology 10-june-2018 13-june-2018 Yes Completed
Prepare oral
presentation 2
14-June-2018 17-June-2018 Yes Submitted
Gathering the data for
review
8 June 2018 18 –June-2018 Yes Prepared notes
Prepare literature
review
18-june-2018 20-june-2018 Yes Completed
Consult with supervisor 21-June-2018 21-June-2018 Yes Update the
literature review
Finalize the literature
Review
21-June-2018 22-June-2018 Yes Submitted

References
 Miner, C.S., Chan, D.M. and Campbell, C., 2001, March. Digital
jewelry: wearable technology for everyday life. In CHI'01 extended
abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 45-46). ACM.
 Abowd, G.D. and Mynatt, E.D., 2000. Charting past, present, and
future research in ubiquitous computing. ACM Transactions on
Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 7(1), pp.29-58.
 Amft, O. and Lukowicz, P., 2009. From backpacks to smartphones:
Past, present, and future of wearable computers. IEEE Pervasive
Computing, 8(3).

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 Park, S. and Jayaraman, S., 2003. Enhancing the quality of life
through wearable technology. IEEE Engineering in medicine and
biology magazine, 22(3), pp.41-48.
 Olguín, D.O., Waber, B.N., Kim, T., Mohan, A., Ara, K. and Pentland,
A., 2009. Sensible organizations: Technology and methodology for
automatically measuring organizational behavior. IEEE Transactions
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics), 39(1),
pp.43-55.