Title :
The locust swarm: an environmentally-powered, networkless location and messaging system
Author :
Starner, T. ; Kirsch, D. ; Assefa, S.
Author_Institution :
Media Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
The Locust infrared system provides inexpensive messaging and location information without batteries and without its own network. The system is "privacy aware" in that it supplies information to the wearable computer user who can then control how much of this information is shared with others or the installed infrastructure. By combining the abilities of Locusts with an appropriately equipped wearable computer, the user can interact with web-like hyperlinks, graphics, and sounds virtually associated with objects in the physical world. In addition the user can annotate and change these links as desired.
Keywords :
multimedia communication; position measurement; security of data; Locust infrared system; graphics; infrastructure; links; location and messaging system; networkless; privacy aware; sounds; wearable computer; web-like hyperlinks; Batteries; Biomedical monitoring; Broadcasting; Computer graphics; Control systems; Global Positioning System; Light emitting diodes; Photovoltaic cells; Random access memory;
Conference_Titel :
Wearable Computers, 1997. Digest of Papers., First International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8192-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISWC.1997.629938
