User Interfaces for Applications on a Wrist Watch

  • Authors:
  • M. T. Raghunath;Chandra Narayanaswami

  • Affiliations:
  • Wearable Computing Platforms, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA;Wearable Computing Platforms, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

  • Venue:
  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Advances in technology have made it possible to package a reasonably powerful processor and memory subsystem coupled with an ultra high-resolution display and wireless communication into a wrist watch. This introduces a set of challenges in the nature of input devices, navigation, applications, and other areas. This paper describes a wearable computing platform in a wrist watch form-factor we have developed. We built two versions: one with a low resolution liquid crystal display; and another with a ultra high resolution organic light emitting diode display. In this paper we discuss the selection of the input devices and the design of applications and user interfaces for these two prototypes, and the compare the two versions.