6th International Symposium on Wearable Computers: Seattle, Washington, 7-10 October 2002 : Proceedings

Proceedings of an October 2002 conference held in Seattle, Washington, and sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems. Forty-two contributions are arranged in sections on keynotes, applications, clothing, hardware, location, poster papers, context, theory, and video. A sampling of topics: retinal displays, a wearable computer for support of astronaut extravehicular activity, multi-sensor context aware clothing, mediated reality using computer graphics hardware for computer vision, exploring the dynamic measurement of position, online power monitoring for wearable systems, an aural user interface for ubiquitous computing, wearable sensing to annotate meeting recordings, programming language support for adaptable wearable computing, and design of a wearable sensor badge for smart kindergarten. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)