August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
23h 27m
English
Sungmee Park1, Kyunghee Chung2 and Sundaresan Jayaraman3, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Today, the term “wearable” goes beyond the traditional definition of clothing; it refers to an accessory that enables personalized mobile information processing. In this chapter, we define the concept of wearables, present their attributes, and discuss their role at the core of an ecosystem for harnessing big data. We then present the taxonomy for wearables and trace their advancements over the years. We discuss the practical challenges associated with the use of wearables and propose the concept of a meta-wearable ...