{"342941":{"#nid":"342941","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Wearables Worked their Way into the Mainstream","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp id=\u0022aui_3_2_0_1151\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThad Starner\u003C\/strong\u003E (Interactive Computing), who has been wearing a \u0022homebrew\u0022 computer with a head-up display as part of his daily life since 1993, discusses why it has taken so long for wearables to capture consumer interest. He discusses the various challenges of designing wearable systems and presents five different phases of head-mounted displays, illustrating how improvements in technology allowed progressively more useful and usable devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022aui_3_2_0_1143\u0022\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022aui_3_2_0_1141\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.computer.org\/cms\/Computer.org\/ComputingNow\/issues\/2014\/11\/mpc2014040010.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EREAD FULL ARTICLE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2014-11-07 12:28:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:20","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Aerospace and Acoustics","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.computer.org\/portal\/web\/computingnow\/content?g=53319\u0026type=article\u0026urlTitle=how-wearables-worked-their-way-into-the-mainstream","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}