WUW - Wear ur world - A wearable gestural interface

Information is traditionally confined to paper or digitally to a screen. In this paper, we introduce WUW, a wearable gestural interface, which attempts to bring information out into the tangible world. By using a tiny projector and a camera mounted on a hat or coupled in a pendant like wearable devi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maes, Patricia, Mistry, Pranav K., Chang, Liyan D.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery / Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61366
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7722-6038
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Summary:Information is traditionally confined to paper or digitally to a screen. In this paper, we introduce WUW, a wearable gestural interface, which attempts to bring information out into the tangible world. By using a tiny projector and a camera mounted on a hat or coupled in a pendant like wearable device, WUW sees what the user sees and visually augments surfaces or physical objects the user is interacting with. WUW projects information onto surfaces, walls, and physical objects around us, and lets the user interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or interaction with the object itself.