The use of speech and auditory interaction on wearable computers can provide an
awareness of events and personal messages, without requiring one's full attention or …

In this paper, we explore the concept of dual-purpose speech: speech that is socially
appropriate in the context of a human-to-human conversation which also provides …

Due principally to the technology of making computers smaller, more powerful and cheaper,
the ubiquitous and wearable computing era is expected to come into being in the beginning …

Computers have been progressively becoming smaller and more mobile. The past few years
have seen computers evolve from the desktop to the notebook to current handheld systems …

We discuss the advantages of using overdetermined mixtures to improve upon blind source
separation algorithms that are designed to extract sound sources from acoustic mixtures. A …

Promoting Wearable Computing Page 1 Promoting Wearable Computing Polly Huang
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Gloriastrasse 35, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland E-mail …

This paper explores the notion that the next generation of information systems will focus on
supporting organizational learning. The paper suggests that the increasingly successful …

This paper describes an on-going research project at the MIT Media Lab, exploring the use
of audio as a primary modality for nomadic computing applications. We are developing a …

Nomadic Radio provides an audio-only wearable interface to unify remote information
services such as email, voice mail, hourly news broadcasts, and personal calendar events …

We present an original study of current mobile appointment scheduling devices. Our
intention is to create a conversational wearable computing interface for the task of …