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Recent Papers

• Real-time Context Recognition (PDF)
  Mark Blum, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), October 2005
  

• MIT.EDU: M-learning Applications for Classroom Settings (PDF)
  Michael Sung, Jonathan Gips, Nathan Eagle, Anmol Madan, Ron Caneel, Rich DeVaul, Joost Bonsen, and Alex "Sandy" Pentland
  Submitted to the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL'04)
  

• GroupMedia: Distributed Multimodal Interfaces (PDF)
  Madan A., Caneel R. and Pentland A.
  Accepted for proceedings of Sixth International Conference on MultiModal Interfaces (ICMI'04)

• Towards Socially Intelligent Wearable Networks (PDF)
  Madan A., Caneel R. and Pentland A.
  Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2004) Student colloquium, Arlington VA November 2004.

• A Shiver Motion and Core Body Temperature Classification for Wearable Soldier Health Monitoring Systems (PDF)
  Michael Sung, Rich DeVaul, Silvia Jimenez, Jonathan Gips, and Alex "Sandy" Pentland
  9th IEEE International Symposium of Wearable Computers (ISWC'04), Arlington, VA, October, 2004

• MIThril LiveNet: Health and Lifestyle Networking (PDF)
  Michael Sung and Alex "Sandy" Pentland
  Workshop on Applications of Mobile Embedded Systems (WAMES'04) at Mobisys'04, Boston, MA, June, 2004

• GroupMedia: Wearable Devices to Understand Social Context (PPT)
  Madan A., Caneel R. and Pentland A.
  Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Mobisys) 2004 ACM/USENIX workshop on Context Awareness, Boston, MA June 2004.

• MIT.EDU: System Architecture for Real-World Distributed Multi-user Applications in Classroom Settings (PDF)
  Michael Sung, Jonathan Gips, Nathan Eagle, Rich DeVaul, and Alex "Sandy" Pentland
  2nd IEEE Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technology for Education (WMTE'03), Jungli, Taiwan, March, 2004

• MIThril 2003: Applications and Architecture (PDF)
  Rich DeVaul, Michael Sung, Jonathan Gips, and Alex "Sandy"Pentland.
  8th IEEE International Symposium of Wearable Computers (ISWC'03), White Plains, NY, October, 2003

• The Memory Glasses: Subliminal vs. Overt Memory Support with Imperfect Information (PDF)
  Rich DeVaul, Vicka Corey, Alex "Sandy"Pentland.
  (ISWC'03), White Plains, NY, October, 2003

MIT Papers on Context Awareness in Wearable Computing

• Nomadic Radio: Scaleable and Contextual Notification for Wearable Audio Messaging (postscript). Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pittsburgh, May 15-20, 1999.

• Auditory Context Awareness in Wearable Computing (postscript). Brian Clarkson, Nitin Sawhney, and Alex Pentland. Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, San Francisco, November 5-6, 1998. (pdf)

• Visual Contextual Awareness in Wearable Computing (html), Thad Starner , Bernt Schiele , and Alex Pentland Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 19-20 October 1998, pp. 50-57. (Compressed Postscript)

• Speaking and Listening on the Run: Design for Wearable Audio Computing (compressed postscript), Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 19-20 October 1998, pp. 108-115.

• StartleCam: A Cybernetic Wearable Camera (compressed postscript), J. Healey and R. W. Picard. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 19-20 October 1998, pp. 42-49.

• Participatory Simulations: Using Computational Objects to Learn about Dynamic Systems (html). V. Colella, R. Borovoy, & M. Resnick. Proceedings of the CHI '98 conference, Los Angeles, April 1998.

• DyPERS: Dynamic Personal Enhanced Reality System (html), Tony Jebara, Bernt Schiele, Nuria Oliver and Alex Pentland. Vision and Modeling Technical Report #463, May 1998. (compressed postscript)

• The Wearable Remembrance Agent: A system for augmented memory (html), Bradley J. Rhodes, in Personal Technologies Journal Special Issue on Wearable Computing , Personal Technologies (1997) 1(4), pp. 218-224. Compressed Postscript .
  See also the earlier version from The Proceedings of The First International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '97), Cambridge, Mass, October 1997, pp. 123-128. (compressed postscript)

• Stochasticks: Augmenting the Billiards Experience with Probabilistic Vision and Wearable Computers (html). Tony Jebara, Cyrus Eyster, Josh Weaver, Thad Starner and Alex Pentland. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers , Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 1997. Also appears as Vision and Modeling Technical Report #439. (compressed postscript)

• Real-Time American Sign Language Recognition Using Desk and Wearable Computer Based Video Perceptual (html) Thad Starner , Joshua Weaver, and Alex Pentland Perceptual Computing TR#466. To appear PAMI in 1998. Originally submitted 4/26/96. (Compressed Postscript)

MIT Wearable Computing Associated Papers

• Wearable Cinema/Wearable City: bridging physical and virtual spaces through wearable computing F. Sparacino, G. Davenport, A. Pentland IMAGINA 2000, invited presentation, Montecarlo, January 31st-February 3rd 2000.

• Wearable Computing Meets Ubiquitous Computing: Reaping the best of both worlds. Bradley Rhodes, Nelson Minar and Josh Weaver. The Proceedings of The Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '99), San Francisco, CA, October 18-19 1999, pp. 141-149. Also avaliable as Postscript.

• Technologies and methods for interactive exhibit design: from wireless object and body tracking to wearable computers F. Sparacino, K. Larson, R, MacNeil, G. Davenport, A. Pentland International Conference on Hypertext and Interactive Museums, ICHIM 99, Washington, DC, Sept. 22-26, 1999.

• Quantifying Driver Stress: Developing a System for Collecting and Processing Bio-Metric Signals in Natural Situations . Jennifer Healey, Justin Seger and Rosalind Picard. Perceptual Computing Technical Report #483. To appear in: Proceedings of the Rocky Mountian Bio-Engineering Symposium, April 16-18 1999. Also available as Compressed PostScript and PDF files. Abstract available in HTML.

• A New Affect-Perceiving Interface and Its Application to Personalized Music Selection. Jennifer Healey, Rosalind Picard and Frank Dabek. Perceptual Computing Technical Report #478. Appears in: Proceedings of the 1998 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, San Fransisco, CA, November 4-6, 1998 Also available as Compressed PostScript and PDF files. Abstract available in HTML.

• StartleCam: A Cybernetic Wearable Camera . Jennifer Healey and Rosalind Picard. Perceptual Computing Technical Report #468. Appears in: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Wearable Computers, October, 1998. Also available as Compressed PostScript and PDF files. Abstract available in HTML.

• Affective Wearables. Rosalind Picard and Jennifer Healey. Appears in: Personal Technologies, Vol 1, No. 4 1997 p231-240 Also available as Compressed PostScript and PDF files. Abstract available in HTML.

• Digital Processing of Affective Signals . Jennifer Healey and Rosalind Picard. Appears in: Proceedings of the ICASSP, Seattle, Washington, May 12-15, 1998 Also available as Compressed PostScript and PDF files. Abstract available in HTML.

• Affective Wearables . Rosalind Picard and Jennifer Healey (1997) Appears in: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Wearable Computers, October, 1997. Obsoleted by: Perceptual Computing Technical Report #467 (see above). Also available as Compressed PostScript and PDF files. Abstract available in HTML.

• Visual Contextual Awareness in Wearable Computing (html). Thad Starner , Bernt Schiele , and Alex Pentland Perceptual Computing TR#465. IEEE ISWC'98. Postscript version.

• Speaking and Listening on the Run: Design for Wearable Audio Computing. Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 19-20 October 1998. Compressed Postscript (580K)

• Real-Time American Sign Language Recognition Using Desk and Wearable Computer Based Video Perceptual (html) Thad Starner , Joshua Weaver, and Alex Pentland Perceptual Computing TR#466. To appear PAMI in 1998. Originally submitted 4/26/96. Postscript version.

• The Wearable Remembrance Agent: A system for augmented memory (html) , Bradley J. Rhodes, in Personal Technologies Journal Special Issue on Wearable Computing , Personal Technologies (1997) 1:218-224. Compressed Postscript .

  See also the earlier version from The Proceedings of The First International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '97), Cambridge, Mass, October 1997, pp. 123-128. Compressed Postscript (121K)

• Smart Fabric, or Washable Computing (html) E. Rehmi Post and Maggie Orth. Presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge, MA, 1997
• Stochasticks: Augmenting the Billiards Experience with Probabilistic Vision and Wearable Computers. Tony Jebara, Cyrus Eyster, Josh Weaver, Thad Starner and Alex Pentland. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge MA, 1997. Compressed Postscript (1.69M)
• Nomadic Radio: Wearable Audio Computing (html) Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. Design of Spatialized Audio in Nomadic Environments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD'97), November 2-5, 1997, Palo Alto, CA. Compressed Postscript (116K)
• Nomadic Radio: A Spatialized Audio Environment for Wearable Computing. Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing, October 13-14, 1997, Cambridge, MA. Compressed Postscript (22K)
• Wearable Audio Computing: A Survey of Interaction T echniques D. Roy, N. Sawhney, C. Schmandt, and A. Pentland. Perceptual Computing Technical Report #434, April 1997. Compressed Postscript (250K)
• The Locust Swarm: An Environmentally-powered, Networkless Location and Messaging System. Thad Starner, Dana Kirsch, and Solomon Assefa. Presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge, MA, 1997 Compressed Postscript (455K)
• Tactual displays for wearable computing. Hong Z. Tan and Alex Pentland. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1997. Compressed Postscript (1.5M)

• A Wearable Computing Based American Sign Language Recognizer (html) Thad Starner, Joshua Weaver, and Alex Pentland. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge, MA, 1997. Compressed Postscript (1.3M). See also the mpeg demo . Obsolete by TR#466 above.
• Smart Clothing: The Wearable Computer and WearCam (Personal Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 1), by steve
• Wearable Computing: A First Step Toward Personal Imaging (The feature article of IEEE Computer, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 1997, pages 25-32, outlining both history and present state-of-the-art of wearables), by steve
• Augmented Reality Through Wearable Computing, by Thad Starner, Steve Mann, Bradley Rhodes, Jeffrey Levine, Jennifer Healey, Dana Kirsch, Rosalind W. Picard, and Alex Pentland. Presence, Special Issue on Augmented Reality, vol 6(4), Fall 1997. Compressed Postscript (TR-397) or HTML Also available, TR-355 (an earlier version)
• The Remembrance Agent: A continuously running automated information retrieval system (html), by Brad Rhodes and Thad Starner in PAAM '96.
• Human Powered Wearable Computing by Thad Starner. As published in the IBM Systems Journal or our local HTML or Postscript formats.
• Smart Clothing, by Steve Mann. Vismod TR-366
• Mediated Reality, by Steve Mann (compressed Postscript). Vismod TR-260
• Affective Computing, by R.W. Picard (compressed Postscript)
• Starner interview with New Scientist (html)
• Making multimedia computers and wireless communication more personal --- a paradigm shift in wearable computing, by Steve Mann (meant for general broad readership).
• The Cyborgs are Coming by Thad Starner. Written for Wired. Unpublished.
• Electrical-Neural Interface as Pertaining to Virtual Reality by Thad Starner.