User Interfaces for Wearable Computers: Development and Evaluation (Advanced Studies Mobile Research Center Bremen) - Softcover

Witt, Hendrik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3835102567 ISBN 13: 9783835102569

Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 2008

Synopsis

Fundamentals of perception and cognition - Human-computer interaction - Context-awareness and adaptive user interfaces - Design and development of wearable user interfaces - Evaluation and development of wearable user interfaces

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About the Author

Dr. Hendrik Witt is a senior research scientist at the Centre for Computing Technologies (TZI) at the University of Bremen (Germany). His research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and context recognition.

From the Back Cover

Over the last decades, desktop computers for professional and consumer applications have become a quasi standard. However, the last few years have been dominated by a new trend in computing: the mobile use of computers. Wearable computers, which are a special kind of mobile computer, assist their users in managing primarily physical tasks.

Hendrik Witt examines user interfaces for wearable computers and analyses the challenges imposed by the wearable computing paradigm through its dual-task character. He discusses solutions for the development and evaluation of user interfaces which can be used in dual task scenarios. The author presents fundamental research results and introduces a special software tool as well as the HotWire evaluation method to facilitate user interface development and evaluation. Based on the findings of different end-user experiments conducted to study the management of interruptions with gesture and speech input in a wearable computing scenario, the author derives design guidelines and general constraints for forthcoming interface designs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3835102567
• ISBN 13: 9783835102569
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296