Awareness and Privacy in Mobile Wearable Computers. IPADS: Interpersonal Awareness Devices

An Inter-Personal Awareness Device, or IPAD, is a handheld or wearable device designed to support awareness and collaboration between people who are in physical vicinity of each other. This paper describes three IPAD systems, comparing their characteristics and approaches to the problem of opportunistic meeting. The characteristics are identified according to the Steinfield et al. [SJP99] awareness classification. Some of these mechanisms are discussed and some improvements and ideas are proposed in order to improve the systems.

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