Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality, 2nd Edition

8 Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality

devices is becoming a major concern. Another point to make is that sensors on the

outside of the body, are rapidly moving under the skin as they begin to connect the

functions of our body to the sensors external to it (Holland etal., 2001).

Furthermore, what about privacy issues and the use of wearable computers to

lm people against their will? Consider an extreme case, video voyeurism, which

is the act of lming or disseminating images of a person’s private areas under

circumstance in which the person had a reasonable expectation of privacy regardless

of whether the person is in a private or public location. Video voyeurism is not only

possible but being done using wearable comp ...