Wearable Key: Device for Personalizing nearby Environment

  • Authors:
  • Nobuyuki Matsushita;Shigeru Tajima;Yuji Ayatsuka;Jun Rekimoto

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ISWC '00 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper describes a system that allows users who obtain a 驴wearable ID key驴 to personalize dynamically ubiquitous computers by simply touching them. We call the concept of providing personalized service by touch 驴Active Personalization驴. For active personalization, users only have to wear a digital key and do not have to carry around other computers. When users touch ubiquitous computers with their wearable key, the keyholes of the ubiquitous computers recognize their IDs and can personalize the computers. We developed a new network technology between keys and keyholes that enables digital information to be carried through a person's body based on a near-field technology we call TouchNet.