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		   B O S T O N   U N I V E R S I T Y
                                       
		      Computer Science Department
                                       
			 C O L L O Q U I U M
                                       
                Wearable Computers and Contextual Awareness                          
                           Thad Starner 
                       MIT Media Laboratory 

         	       Wednesday, March 25th
                                       
			     11:00am
	            (Coffee served at 10:30am)

                                       
		      Seminar Room / MCS 135
                                       

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Wearable computing provides unique opportunities in human-computer
interaction reminiscent of the "man-machine symbioses" proposed by
early computer science researchers.  By observing the user's every day
actions from a first-person perspective, the wearable computer can
derive useful data about the wearer's context.  This data can cue
agents which, in turn, provide information relevant to the current
task in an unobtrusive manner.

Over the past 5 years, I have helped assemble a community of
wearable computer users at the MIT Media Laboratory in order to
explore primary and secondary human-computer interfaces, sensing,
ergonomics, and privacy-aware ubiquitous computing.  This talk will
provide a sampling of this research and introduce the long-term goals
of the project.

Host: Wayne Snyder (snyder@cs.bu.edu)

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For colloquium info, including directions, see http://cs-www.bu.edu/colloquium
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This is a faculty candidate colloquium.