Abstract :
This year, the 11th International Symposium on Wearable Computers returned to the city where it began: Boston, Massachusetts. ISWC is the premier conference in wearable computing, reporting the latest advances in research and technology. As in previous years, attendees came both from academia and industry, representing a broad spectrum of nationalities and technical interests. The year 2008´s program emphasized gesture and activity recognition but also reported on power considerations, augmented reality, evaluation, and new interaction modalities, among other topics.
Keywords :
augmented reality; gesture recognition; wearable computers; activity recognition; augmented reality; gesture recognition; wearable computing; Acoustic sensors; Capacitive sensors; Clothing; Hidden Markov models; Prototypes; Sensor arrays; Strain measurement; Wearable computers; Wireless sensor networks; Wrist; activity recognition; computer power; gesture recognition; posture recognition; wearable computing;
