Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality

The second edition of a bestseller, this book presents broad coverage of the emerging human-computer interface technologies which allow people to access information anywhere and at any time. There are many application areas for this technology, such as medicine, manufacturing, training, and recreation. Much of the new material in this edition focuses on the emerging display technologies which are far less cumbersome. Other new material will focus on applications and interface design issues.

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 forPresence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments and is an associate editor forVirtual Reality. He has more than 350 publications and presentations, including invited lectures and keynote talks, and holds two degrees in law.