Aim                             Objectives                           Goals                     FEATURES

Aim

WACIIH is aimed at developing a synergistic, flexible and adaptable mobile and wearable computing platform for the use of common people to support them in their daily lives.

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Objectives

The Objectives behind the development of WACII-I are as follows:

·        Build a light, economic, flexible and scalable wearable computing platform.

·        Develop a computing technology that a person lives with.

·        Build a system to support people in their daily lives.

·        Build a community of researchers towards mobile computing.

In order to build wearable applications and systems which are useful, we must first understand how people interact with the real world and each other. By understanding, sensing, and modeling these interactions, we can build interfaces and applications which facilitate and support people, rather than getting in their way.

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Goals

            The Goals with the design and development of WACIIH are:

·        Work out concepts for development of a Wearable Computer.

·        Justify the need of a Wearable Computer and its utility.

·        Design the hardware interfacing of the various parts of the Wearable Computer.

·        Design the Body Network and Body Bus for the Wearable Computer.

·        Plan the wear ability of the intended computer.

·        Perform hardware interfacing.

·        Develop a Body Jacket to facilitate easy wear of the Computer.

·        Integrate together the various parts of the computer to deliver the final product.

It is believed that context awareness is critical to a good wearable computer. Context, or non-explicit user input, is gathered through sensing and modeling the person's environment, state, and task. By knowing something about where the person is and what they are doing, we can create interactions which pro-activity support, anticipate, and facilitate the person's task.

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FEATURES

WACIIH's features:-

• Processes 300 Million Instructions Per Second

• 64MB RAM, 10Gb HDD

• 12 Bit Color, 320 * 240 Pixel Head Mounted Display

• 4MB Accelerated Graphics Video Card

• 4 Hours Battery Backup

• Full Multimedia

• 65 Channel (VHF and UHF) Television

• Voice Command

• Communications: Dial Up Internet and 10/100 Mbps Ethernet

• Red Hat Linux Operating System

• Ease Wear - wear it like any other clothing

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