Areas of Applications
In many applications, user's skin, hands, voice, eyes, arms as well as motion or attention are actively engaged as the physical environment.
Wearable computer items have been initially developed for and applied with e.g.
- behavioral modeling,
- health care monitoring systems,
- service management
- mobile phones
- smartphones
- electronic textiles
- fashion design
and other usage also.
Today still "wearable computing" is a topic of active research, with areas of study including user interface design, augmented reality, pattern recognition. The use of wearables for specific applications or for compensating disabilities as well as supporting elderly people steadily increases.
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