Walk-up keyboard: an efficient low overhead interface for transient workers

Authors:
Matthew Rosencrantz;Kurt Partridge
Affiliations:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Venue:
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2001

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Abstract

A situation that traditional PC centered computing does not serve well is that of transient workers; workers who are required to move from place to place frequently, yet still be able to interact with their data. We used intra-body signaling to construct a system that allows workers to carry wearable computers and interact with them through a standard keyboard and monitor. The system has low overhead when changing terminals as the association between terminal and wearable occurs automatically when the user comes into contact with the terminal. Although the system is still under development, an initial implementation has verified that the desired functionality is obtainable.