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SUMMARY:Obstacles to Wearable Computing - Helen Oliver\, Computer Lab
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CONTACT:Srinivasan Keshav
DESCRIPTION:Wearable computing has great potential to enhance its wearers
 ’ everyday lives. By nature of being worn on the body\, it also has pote
 ntial to enhance the wearer’s expression of personal style. However\, th
 is potential remains largely unrealized. There is a number of identified o
 bstacles to adoption of wearable computing\, and this talk describes a res
 earch through design that attempted to address five of those obstacles: \n
 \n1. privacy\; \n2. impracticality of single use-case devices\; \n3. integ
 ration into an IoT ecosystem\; \n4. designing devices as an extension of t
 he smartphone rather than the wearer\; and\n5. failure to engage wearers e
 motionally.\n\nPrimarily\, the research used a novel method of participato
 ry design fiction\, with independent adult volunteers\, to inspire everyda
 y IoT wearables that would appeal to emotional as well as functional needs
 . Secondarily\, the project’s software infrastructure was built on the H
 ub-of-all-Things (HAT) [https://www.hubofallthings.com]\, which provided a
  private platform on which to integrate the devices into an IoT ecosystem\
 , and augment device functionality by contextualizing data from multiple s
 ources.\n\nBio:\n\nHelen Oliver is a Research Associate in the Security gr
 oup at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Tech
 nology. A doctoral student in the Alan Turing Institute’s 2016 cohort\, 
 based in the Department’s Networks and Operating Systems group\, she is 
 completing her Ph.D on everyday wearable IoT systems\, supervised by Profs
  Jon Crowcroft and Richard Mortier. Her research interests interweave part
 icipatory and user-centred design\, systems\, wearable technology and narr
 atives\, as well as privacy\, personal data and cybercrime. She also has i
 nterests in information representation and modelling\, and was the origina
 l developer of designVUE\, a hypermedia application for concept mapping de
 sign rationale.\n
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