Woodrow Barfield, PhD, JD, LLM, has served as professor of engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, where he received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Professor Barfield directed the Sensory Engineering Laboratory, where he was involved in research on sensors and augmented and virtual reality displays. He has served as a senior editor for Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments and is an associate editor for Virtual Reality. He has more than 350 publications and presentations, including invited lectures and keynote talks, and holds two degrees in law.

• Introduction. Basic Concepts in Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality: Approaches and Technical Challenges. Mobile and Pervasive Computing. Technology. A Survey of Tracking Technology for Virtual Environments. Optical Versus Video See-Through Head-Mounted Displays. Augmenting Reality Using Affine Object Representations. Registration Error Analysis for Augmented Reality Systems. Mathematical Theory for Mediated Reality and Wearcam-Based Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality. Studies of the Localization of Virtual Objects in the Near Visual Field. Fundamental Issues in Mediated Reality, and Camera–based Augmented Reality. Star: Tracking for Object-Centric Augmented Reality. Wearable Computers. Computational Clothing and Accessories. Situation Aware Computing with Wearable Computers. Collaboration with Wearable Computers. Tactual Displays for Sensory Substitution and Wearable Computers. Photographic/Videographic Applications of Wearcomp–based Augmented/Mediated Reality. Military Applications of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality. Medical Applications for Wearable Computing. Applications of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality to Manufacturing. Computer Networks for Wearable Computing. Computing Under the Skin. Human-Computer Interface Design Issues. Enhancing Humans with Technology. Body Hacking and Wearable Computers. Wearable Prosthesis. References. Index.

"For researchers in this area, the book is amazingly inspiring, containing a huge range of fantastic material on the topic of wearable computing and augmented reality. Its content reflects the skills and experience of a number of long-term researchers in the field, and each chapter feels extensive and mature, yet fresh and up to date. This is not a book that will guide you step by step in setting up a wearable computer demo system, but rather a book that will provide you with a remarkable overall vision on the topic, showing you what the best researchers have done so far and therefore offering you the unique opportunity of ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ of wearable computing." —Presence, Winter 2016Reviews of the First Edition: "Portions of the book would be of great interest to many HF/E professionals and students as preparation for applications and issues to be addressed in the relatively near future. The technology section would be especially useful for new researchers and developers starting in the field... "—Ergonomics in Designs "...this book contains broad information related to wearable computers and augmented reality. Most of the chapters present cutting-edge research activities. Thus, the required level of readers is intermediate to expert....researchers or graduate students of computer-human interaction or virtual reality could take advantage from it."—Computer Journal "The book covers a variety of research and development issues....anyone who is interested in wearable computers and augmented reality could do well to start with this work."—Ergonomics Abstracts "...the papers presented interesting ideas and topics for further development...one might feel that yet again here is a technology looking for an application and that we ought to be working hard on developing and appropriate role for people in relation to these devices."—Eurospan

Woodrow Barfield, PhD, JD, LLM, has served as professor of engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, where he received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Professor Barfield directed the Sensory Engineering Laboratory, where he was involved in research on sensors and augmented and virtual reality displays. He has served as a senior editor for Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments and is an associate editor for Virtual Reality. He has more than 350 publications and presentations, including invited lectures and keynote talks, and holds two degrees in law.

• Introduction. Basic Concepts in Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality: Approaches and Technical Challenges. Mobile and Pervasive Computing. Technology. A Survey of Tracking Technology for Virtual Environments. Optical Versus Video See-Through Head-Mounted Displays. Augmenting Reality Using Affine Object Representations. Registration Error Analysis for Augmented Reality Systems. Mathematical Theory for Mediated Reality and Wearcam-Based Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality. Studies of the Localization of Virtual Objects in the Near Visual Field. Fundamental Issues in Mediated Reality, and Camera–based Augmented Reality. Star: Tracking for Object-Centric Augmented Reality. Wearable Computers. Computational Clothing and Accessories. Situation Aware Computing with Wearable Computers. Collaboration with Wearable Computers. Tactual Displays for Sensory Substitution and Wearable Computers. Photographic/Videographic Applications of Wearcomp–based Augmented/Mediated Reality. Military Applications of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality. Medical Applications for Wearable Computing. Applications of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality to Manufacturing. Computer Networks for Wearable Computing. Computing Under the Skin. Human-Computer Interface Design Issues. Enhancing Humans with Technology. Body Hacking and Wearable Computers. Wearable Prosthesis. References. Index.

"For researchers in this area, the book is amazingly inspiring, containing a huge range of fantastic material on the topic of wearable computing and augmented reality. Its content reflects the skills and experience of a number of long-term researchers in the field, and each chapter feels extensive and mature, yet fresh and up to date. This is not a book that will guide you step by step in setting up a wearable computer demo system, but rather a book that will provide you with a remarkable overall vision on the topic, showing you what the best researchers have done so far and therefore offering you the unique opportunity of ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ of wearable computing." —Presence, Winter 2016Reviews of the First Edition: "Portions of the book would be of great interest to many HF/E professionals and students as preparation for applications and issues to be addressed in the relatively near future. The technology section would be especially useful for new researchers and developers starting in the field... "—Ergonomics in Designs "...this book contains broad information related to wearable computers and augmented reality. Most of the chapters present cutting-edge research activities. Thus, the required level of readers is intermediate to expert....researchers or graduate students of computer-human interaction or virtual reality could take advantage from it."—Computer Journal "The book covers a variety of research and development issues....anyone who is interested in wearable computers and augmented reality could do well to start with this work."—Ergonomics Abstracts "...the papers presented interesting ideas and topics for further development...one might feel that yet again here is a technology looking for an application and that we ought to be working hard on developing and appropriate role for people in relation to these devices."—Eurospan

Woodrow Barfield, PhD, JD, LLM, has served as professor of engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, where he received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Professor Barfield directed the Sensory Engineering Laboratory, where he was involved in research on sensors and augmented and virtual reality displays. He has served as a senior editor for Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments and is an associate editor for Virtual Reality. He has more than 350 publications and presentations, including invited lectures and keynote talks, and holds two degrees in law.

• Introduction. Basic Concepts in Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality: Approaches and Technical Challenges. Mobile and Pervasive Computing. Technology. A Survey of Tracking Technology for Virtual Environments. Optical Versus Video See-Through Head-Mounted Displays. Augmenting Reality Using Affine Object Representations. Registration Error Analysis for Augmented Reality Systems. Mathematical Theory for Mediated Reality and Wearcam-Based Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality. Studies of the Localization of Virtual Objects in the Near Visual Field. Fundamental Issues in Mediated Reality, and Camera–based Augmented Reality. Star: Tracking for Object-Centric Augmented Reality. Wearable Computers. Computational Clothing and Accessories. Situation Aware Computing with Wearable Computers. Collaboration with Wearable Computers. Tactual Displays for Sensory Substitution and Wearable Computers. Photographic/Videographic Applications of Wearcomp–based Augmented/Mediated Reality. Military Applications of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality. Medical Applications for Wearable Computing. Applications of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality to Manufacturing. Computer Networks for Wearable Computing. Computing Under the Skin. Human-Computer Interface Design Issues. Enhancing Humans with Technology. Body Hacking and Wearable Computers. Wearable Prosthesis. References. Index.

"For researchers in this area, the book is amazingly inspiring, containing a huge range of fantastic material on the topic of wearable computing and augmented reality. Its content reflects the skills and experience of a number of long-term researchers in the field, and each chapter feels extensive and mature, yet fresh and up to date. This is not a book that will guide you step by step in setting up a wearable computer demo system, but rather a book that will provide you with a remarkable overall vision on the topic, showing you what the best researchers have done so far and therefore offering you the unique opportunity of ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ of wearable computing." —Presence, Winter 2016Reviews of the First Edition: "Portions of the book would be of great interest to many HF/E professionals and students as preparation for applications and issues to be addressed in the relatively near future. The technology section would be especially useful for new researchers and developers starting in the field... "—Ergonomics in Designs "...this book contains broad information related to wearable computers and augmented reality. Most of the chapters present cutting-edge research activities. Thus, the required level of readers is intermediate to expert....researchers or graduate students of computer-human interaction or virtual reality could take advantage from it."—Computer Journal "The book covers a variety of research and development issues....anyone who is interested in wearable computers and augmented reality could do well to start with this work."—Ergonomics Abstracts "...the papers presented interesting ideas and topics for further development...one might feel that yet again here is a technology looking for an application and that we ought to be working hard on developing and appropriate role for people in relation to these devices."—Eurospan