Demo abstract: Unobtrusive real-time shopping assistance in retail stores using smart glasses

Online shopping has been emerging in the past years and significantly affected conventional shopping styles, but many people still favor retail stores for reasons such as social lives and trying dresses. When they find interested goods, usually hope to obtain more information of them from online shopping for price comparison and so forth. However, state of the art solutions either have users frequently search them manually via smart phone apps, which results in a negative effect on shopping experience; or force users to delay the purchase after checking information late at home. In this demo, we present a novel system that can unobtrusively assist shopping in retail stores in a real time manner. It leverages the camera, voice control, and Internet capabilities on smart glasses, and allows users to conduct price match in real time to improve shopping experience. We describe the overall system design and demonstrate the system using Google Glass and Google Nexus 5 phone.