Essays about: "wearable computing"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 18 essays containing the words wearable computing.

1. 6. The Sunshine Necklace : A design inquiry study about digital jewellery and wearable technology for empowerment in sexual harassment situations

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Medieteknik

   Author : Sepideh Abbaszadeh; [2018]
   Keywords : Digital jewellery; wearable technology; empowerment in design; participatory design; aesthetic values;

   Abstract : This paper addresses a design exploration focusing on interactive jewellery and wearable computing that could affect sexual harassment in social contexts in everyday life. Drawing on a design inquiry study that lead to the creation of an interactive and digital necklace named Sunshine, which is a personal alarm connected to an emergency center, this paper focuses on how a piece of digital jewellery can contribute to women’s empowerment in relation to sexual harassment. READ MORE

3. 7. Words have power: Speech recognition in interactive jewelry : a case study with newcome LGBT+ immigrants

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Medieteknik

   Author : Anton Poikolainen Rosén; [2017]
   Keywords : Interactive jewelry; speech recognition; wearable computing; affective computing; LGBT ; migration; LED-lights.;

   Abstract : This paper addresses a design exploration focusing on interactive jewelry conducted with newcome LGBT+ immigrants in Sweden, leading to a necklace named PoWo that is “powered” by the spoken word through a mobile application that reacts to customizable keywords triggering LED-lights in the necklace. Interactive jewelry is in this paper viewed as a medium with a simultaneous relation to wearer and spectator thus affording use on the themes of symbolism, emotion, body and communication. READ MORE

4. 8. Embedded Vision Machine Learning on Embedded Devices for Image classification in Industrial Internet of things

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT)

   Author : Bilal Parvez; [2017]
   Keywords : Machine Learning; Image classification; Embedded devices; Maskininlärning; Bildklassificering; Inbyggda system;

   Abstract : Because of Machine Learning, machines have become extremely good at image classification in near real time. With using significant training data, powerful machines can be trained to recognize images as good as any human would. Till now the norm has been to have pictures sent to a server and have the server recognize them. READ MORE

5. 9. Cloud-based Mobile System for Free-Living Gait Analysis : System component : Server architecture

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för informationsteknologi

   Author : Hampus Carlsson; Kärrman Marcus; [2017]
   Keywords : gait; gait analysis; cloud; node.js; free-living gait;

   Abstract : Progress in the fields of wearable sensor technologies together with specialized analysis algorithms has enabled systems for gait analysis outside labs. An example of a wearable sensor is the accelerometer embedded in a typical smartphone. READ MORE

6. 10. Re-entering Hertzian Space through Affective Wearables

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Sonja Rattay; [2015]
   Keywords : Hertzian Space; Wearables;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses the domain of wearables and its current developments, and the notion of hertzian space, under the consideration of the emerging areas of the internet of things and ubiquitous computing. It introduces wearables as an opening into hertzian space and presents a possible approach to how a wearable could be designed to function as a touchpoint between human body and hertzian space. READ MORE