Human-powered wearable computing

Abstract

Since 1993, members of the MIT Wearable Computing Project have been engaged in a \living experiment," incorporating wearable computing into their everyday lives. Such immediate access to computation power enables a unique lifestyle and has many social implications. Through the use of anecdotes, this paper will attempt to relate our observations on the perception and adoption of new technology, interface issues, collaboration, and privacy as related to the intimate use of wearable computing.