Le Wearable Computing

Résumé

 

As this picture from Terminator 2 shows, since the creation of computing, men have always wanted to complete their body with a computer which could correct human natural deficiencies. Wearable computing is a compromise beetween human and cyborg.

Wearable compuiting can be worn as clothes and thus allows a total integration of the computer with its user. That is why it has a particular technology which is composed of three disctinc parts distibuted on the body :

- The display system, which can be a simple screen or images projected on the eye.

- The input / output system.

- The central unit and batteries.

The usage of this kind of comuter is totally different from what we know at the present time. All the Human Computer Interaction has to be rethought.

It is based on the cyborg concept, that is to say that the computer is a part of the individual. For the user, computing becomes a secondary task.

But there are many technical problems to resolve such as energy or clutter. But some applications already exists, in particular in research laboratories and for the army.

This presentaton is divided into two big main parts :

- Whole view of wearable computing

- Wearable computing concretly