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Wearable Computers and Personal Cybernetics

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Publications

• 1994 "The Cyborgs are Coming, or The Real Personal Computers" (Thad Starner)
• 1995-present Articles on Wearable Computers
• Jun. 1995 "I Am A Camera" (Larry Husten)
• Feb. 1996 "Smart Clothing" (Steve Mann)
• 1997 "Augmented Reality Through Wearable Computing" (Thad Starner, Steve Mann, Bradley Rhodes, Jeffrey Levine, Jennifer Healey, Dana Kirsch, Rosalind W. Picard, Alex Pentland; MIT Media Laboratory)
• Oct. 1997 "An historical account of the `WearComp' and `WearCam' inventions developed for applications in personal imaging" (Steve Mann)
• 1998 "Designing the paramedic protocol and patient reporting computer (P3CO)" (Chris Baber, David Haniff, Mick Lindley)
• May 1998 "Paramedics see remedy in third eye" (Roger Dobson)
• 1999 "A wearable computer for paramedics: studies in model-based, user-centered and industrial design" (C. Baber, T.N. Arvanitis, D.J. Haniff, R. Buckley)
• Sep. 1999 "The Coming Surveillance Tsunami" (Alex Lightman)
• Oct. 1999 "Professor Cyborg (about Kevin Warwick)" (Janelle Brown)
• Jan. 2000 "Turn on, jack in and geek out with wearable PC" (D. Ian Hopper)
• Feb. 2000 "Cyborg 1.0" (Kevin Warwick)
• Mar. 2000 "Being Steve Mann: Cyberwear pioneer alters his reality" (Jay Bookman)
• May 2000 "Cloth keyboard" (New Scientist)
• Jun. 2000 "Introduction to Wearable Computing" (Steve Mann)
• Aug. 2000 "Philips and Levi's create first wearable electronics garment" (Ellen de Vries, Neil Stevens)
• Dec. 2000 "Clothes that do the thinking" (Julian Siddle)
• Jan. 2001 "I am a cyborg, and I love it (insulin infusion pump)" (Janet Lafler)
• Nov 2001 Intelligent Image Processing (Steve Mann)

Organizations

• Ascension Technology Corporation
• Bluetooth
• Carnegie Mellon University Wearable Computer Systems
• Charmed Technology, Inc.
• Columbia University Mobile Computing Laboratory
• ElectroTextiles Company
• Georgia Tech Contextual Computing Group GT Wearables Wearable EPSS
• Handykey Corporation
• The Humionics Society
• i-glasses Display Systems
• inViso Inc.
• The i-Wear Project
• Kaiser Electro-Optics, Inc. -- head-mounted displays
• Kopin -- CyberDisplay
• MicroOptical Corporation
• Microvision's Virtual Retinal Display
• MIT Affective Computing
• MIT Wearables Computing Web Page
• Stanford University Wearable Computing Laboratory
• Starlab -- Feather
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Wearable Computing Laboratory
• Tek Gear, Inc.
• TheTech -- TechWearable
• Timex -- Fun with the Timex Datalink
• Tiqit Computers
• University of California, Berkeley -- Research in Low-Power Wireless System Design
• University of California, Los Angeles -- TRAVLER: System Support for Nomadic Computing
• University of Essex -- Wearables
• University of Massachussets -- Wearable Computer Prototype
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Watson School of Education -- UNC-W Wearable Computer Project Second Generation
• University of Oregon Wearable Computing Group
• University of Reading, UK (Prof. Kevin Warwick)
• University of Toronto (Steve Mann) Also See Also See
• University of Umea, Institute of Design -- Wearable Computer Support for Mentally Retarded Users -- exPLAINer
• University of Washington HIT Lab
• Virtual Vision
• WDHS Wearable Computer
• WetPC
• Xybernaut Corporation

Links

• "A brief history of wearable computing" (Bradley Rhodes)
• Affective Wearables Computers (MIT)
• Charles Hables Gray cyborgologist
• Digiman -- human-computer interface research (Jeff Hartman)
• Future of Wearable Computing
• How to build a version of WearComp6
• "Humanistic Intelligence and the ThoughtCam Project" (Steve Mann, Daniel Chen, Rubaiyat Islam)
• International Symposium on Wearable Computers 1997 Abstracts 1998 Abstracts 1999 Abstracts 2000 Abstracts 2001
• Jacketized Computing
• Personal Cybernetics (Steve Mann)
• Steve Mann's Wearable Computing, Personal Imaging, Humanistic Intelligence website Also
• T.E.C.H. Websites: Cyborgs and Biological-Technological Interfacing
• T.E.C.H. Websites: Wearable Computers And Enhanced Reality
• Ubiquitous Computing News
• Wearable Computers (Steve Mann, About.com)
• Wearable Computers Australia
• Wearable Computers Finland
• Wearable Computing -- Augmented Reality Information
• Wearable Computing and Technology Portal
• Wearable Computing FAQ Another FAQ Another FAQ
• Wearable Computing Links (MIT)
• Wearable Computing Resource Page (Brian Rudy)
• Wearable News Gathering Systems (University of Toronto)
• Wearables Central: Wearable Computing Links and News Archive (R. Paul McCarty) Alternate

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