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Research Groups and Projects

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The research group provides info on work and publications as well as links, mostly on applications for wearable computing.
http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/ccg/

The group extensively describes its MIThril system: a complete wearable computer from hardware to applications. Also overviews of other projects as well as papers and people are given.
http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/

The project at Columbia University informs on application scenarios (e.g. campus information system, journalist's workbench) as well as the system architecture.
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/projects/mars

The university group presents its research and various student projects mainly focused on hardware as well as its vision for wearable computing.
http://www.wearable.ethz.ch/

presents their projects on wearable communities and ad-hoc middleware, and give a list of their on-line publications and members.
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/wearables

The group gives information on their Sulawesi framework, their members and publications and a recipe for building an own wearable.
http://wearables.essex.ac.uk/

The group focusing mainly on mobility and UI offers a Sourceforge-based software repository, an overview of projects and a extensive annotated link list.
http://www.wearlab.de/index_en.xhtml

Recent work includes tactile displays, spatial audio interfaces, and WLAN-based location services. Also features an overview of their hardware protypes and used software as well as publications on system design.
http://www.wearablegroup.org

Their main objective is to integrate computing ability directly into fibres.
http://www.fibercomputing.net

The project focuses on the human factors involved with the use of wearable computers.
http://www.bham.ac.uk/ManMechEng/IEG/w1.html

Using an (unspecified) wearable system for surveying and mapping work.
http://geoastor.ch/penmap/files/Wearable_Computer.html

A numeric keyboard is 'projected' onto one of the user's hands for dialing. Follow the "Paula" link for more information.
http://marisil.org

Short description of a project at the University of Abertay Dundee to access public information networks using wearables.
http://epicentre.abertay.ac.uk/research/mobile_wearable.asp

The group at the University of Birmingham with several wearable hardware systems presents their projects, papers and lots of pictures.
http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/wear-it/

The research group on electronic textiles for ambient intelligence shows their journal articles and other publications as well as their vision and members.
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~etex

Describes the military communication and positioning system with lots of links.
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/landwarrior.html

The group of the University of South Australia works on outdoor augmented reality and necessary input devices and offers summaries of their projects.
http://acrc.unisa.edu.au/groups/wearable/

The EU project strives to apply wearable computing to increase the productivity of the work force in the areas emergency, healthcare, maintenance and production. Overview of business cases, publications, consortium and milestones as well as a definition of wearable computing.
http://www.wearitatwork.com/