Mobile Intelligence

22.6 CONCLUSION

The ubiquitous fashionable computer, introduced in this chapter, is a wearable computer that exploits ubiquitous computing environment. The success of wearable computer will heavily rely on good wearability, usability, aesthetic appearance, and social acceptance. Therefore, its external design should be aesthetic and comfortable for it to be popular and let more people use for their real lives. In addition, not merely considering about these uncomfortable carrying issues, the reflection the exploit of ubiquitous computing environment should be done. In the ubiquitous environment, wearable computing systems integrate various types of devices like communication interfaces to get services in any time and any where, and user interfaces to facilitate the computing system without any burdensomeness.

In this chapter, we present the design approach and the philosophy of our wearable computing system that is wearable, aesthetic, and intuitive. The main features are as follows. It supports the coexistence and interoperability of various communication interfaces between WLAN, Bluetooth, and ZigBee devices that can be operated freely in any ubiquitous system environment. This can be done using dynamic channel allocation mechanism between communication devices that operates same ISM band. In addition, novel user interfaces are developed and integrated with the UFC to help the intuitive use of it in our wearable computer system. Among possible user interfaces, in this chapter, ...