Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality, 2nd Edition

18 Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality

upside-down optical mouse sensor to control a cursor. Perhaps with today’s smaller

and lower-power components, a wireless version could be made. More recently,

Zeagler and Starner explored textile interfaces for mobile input (Komar etal. 2009,

Prota etal. 2013), and a plethora of community-funded Bluetooth Human Interface

Devices are being developed, often focusing on rings and bracelets. One device will

not satisfy all needs, and there will be an exciting market for third-party interfaces

for consumer wearable computers.

Traditional windows, icon, menu, pointer (WIMP) interfaces are difcult to use

while on-the-go as they require too much visual and manual attention. Fortunatel ...