Intelligent Wearable Interfaces
Chapter One
Introduction
Nowadays, personal communication devices such as mobile phones are very popular
all over the world. The success of mobile phones lies in the fact that interpersonal
communication and interface is vital to the well-being of humans, and mobile
phones help people achieve this goal by extending the sense of hearing and power
of speech to far away places conveniently. However, apart from the auditory sense,
humans also possess other senses for communication and interaction such as
vision and body motion. These sensations play very important roles in our everyday
interpersonal communication. In terms of technology, the state-of-the-art in sensing
hardware, control software, telecommunication protocol, and computer networks has
already allowed various forms of data to be transmitted and analyzed efficiently. So
why can't we find multimodal sensation communication commonplace among the
mobile devices? We believe that the lack of efficient human-machine interfaces
has caused a bottleneck. Therefore, we have designed and built a series of mobile
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