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This paper examines the perception of wearable computers for everyday life by the general public, in order to foster the adoption of this technology. We present a social study that focuses on sensors, actuators, autonomy, uses, and privacy. Carried out in 2005, it considers gender and cultural disparities in two dissimilar groups: French (115 males, 59 females) and Japanese (61 males, 54 females) citizens. Acknowledging that exposition to wearables can alter perception about them, we designed a garment-shaped prototype to check our results, estimate shifts of perception, and define guidelines for equipment and services. We describe our prototype, and future experiments dealing with face-to-face contacts, community awareness, and relaxing environments.
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Duval, S., Hashizume, H. (2005). Perception of Wearable Computers for Everyday Life by the General Public: Impact of Culture and Gender on Technology. In: Yang, L.T., Amamiya, M., Liu, Z., Guo, M., Rammig, F.J. (eds) Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing – EUC 2005. EUC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3824. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11596356_82
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