A survey and the Future Agenda

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A survey and the Future Agenda"

by

Mr. Yongpan ZOU


Abstract:

In the most recent years, with the speedy development of relevant technologies 
such as IC and MEMS technologies, wearable computers have burst into a boom and 
attracted intensive academic and industrial interest. Due to the tiny size, 
powerful computing capability and high compatibility with human bodies, 
wearable computers are widely applied for various applications, especially for 
those closely related to the states (physical, physiological and psychological) 
of human bodies, which include but not limited to, health-care monitoring, 
human-computer interaction, human activity analysis, cognition assistance and 
augmented/virtual reality as summarized in this article.

Throughout the article, we give a comprehensive overview of wearable computing 
and also discuss its future agenda from perspectives of form size, energy 
supply and potential novel applications. Specifically, as for the overview 
part, we shall first clarify several key concepts, demonstrate relevant 
technical background on a high level, and then present a deep and comprehensive 
prospect of wearable computing from an application perspective, by summarizing 
and comparing existing representative wearable devices or prototypes. In the 
later part, we propose our vision of wearable computing in the near future and 
conclude several potential research issues to be studied in this field, based 
on the latest development of relevant technologies such as flexible circuit, 
wireless charging, high-performance chip, ultra-low power communication and 
etc. At last, we make a belief introduction of our on-going projects in the 
field of wearable computing, as a conclusion of this article.


Date:			Friday, 31 July 2015

Time:                  	5:30pm - 7:30pm

Venue:                  Room 3494
                         Lifts 25/26

Committee Members:	Prof. Lionel Ni (Supervisor)
 			Prof. Huamin Qu (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Kai Chen
 			Dr. Lei Chen


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