A Literature Review of Wearable Technology: Past, Present, Future

This literature review examines the evolution of wearable technology, tracing its development from past innovations to present-day applications and future possibilities. It identifies key research articles discussing wearable computers, biomedical telemetry, human-centered computing, and digital jewelry. The review explores the role of wearable technology in enhancing quality of life, facilitating human-computer interaction, and measuring organizational behavior. It provides a timeline of research activities, including literature review, proposal preparation, and oral presentations, and concludes with a list of references.

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.

Continued…
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).