Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Birmingham

FiCom, short for Fiber Computing, is a project under The Disappearing Computer Initiative. The Disappearing Computer (DC) is a EU-funded proactive initiative of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) activity of the Information Society Technologies (IST) research program. FiCom will achieve integration of electronic and computing ability into the very fibers required to create textiles.

The project at Columbia University informs on application scenarios (e.g. campus information system, journalist's workbench) as well as the system architecture.

The Penmap system provides the first surveying and mapping system designed for wearable computers.

Welcome to the Homepage of The University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, UK. Abertay offers world-leading courses in computer arts and computer games technology is home to the International Centre for Computer Games & Virtual Entertainment (IC-CAVE) - unique in Europe. Abertay is based in Scotland’s 4th largest City and is the sunniest city in Scotland with over 1400 hours of sunshine per year.

Das 1995 gegründete Technologie-Zentrum Informatik (TZI) ist ein Institut des Fachbereichs Mathematik/Informatik der Universität Bremen mit über 110 Mitarbeiter/innen. Es hat den Transfer, die Entwicklung und die Erforschung innovativer Informatik-Technologien zum Ziel.

The group extensively describes its MIThril system: a complete wearable computer from hardware to applications. Also overviews of other projects as well as papers and people are given.

The group at the University of Birmingham with several wearable hardware systems presents their projects, papers and lots of pictures.

Wearable Computing Laboratory - presents their projects on wearable communities and ad-hoc middleware, and give a list of their on-line publications and members.

The EU project strives to apply wearable computing to increase the productivity of the work force in the areas emergency, healthcare, maintenance and production. Overview of business cases, publications, consortium and milestones as well as a definition of wearable computing.