{"264071":{"#nid":"264071","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag Seminar: Thad Starner","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThad Starner\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWearable Computing: \u0026nbsp;Through the Looking Glass\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoogle\u0027s Glass has captured the world\u0027s imagination, with new articles speculating on it almost every day. \u0026nbsp;Yet, why would consumers want a wearable computer in their everyday lives? \u0026nbsp;For the past 20 years, my teams have been creating living laboratories to discover the most compelling reasons. \u0026nbsp;In the process, we have investigated how to create interfaces for technology which is designed to be \u0022there when you need it, gone when you don\u0027t.\u0022 \u0026nbsp;This talk will attempt to articulate the most valuable lessons we have learned, including some design principles for creating \u0022microinteractions\u0022 to fit a user\u0027s lifestyle. \u0026nbsp;In addition, I will present some unusual wearable computing interfaces, ranging from \u0026nbsp;silent speech recognition to fingerless gloves that can help the wearer learn piano melodies or Braille typing without active attention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThad Starner is a wearable computing pioneer. \u0026nbsp;He is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Technical Lead on Google\u0027s Glass. \u0026nbsp;Starner has been wearing a head-up display based computer as part of his daily life since 1993, perhaps the longest such experience known. \u0026nbsp;Thad is a founder of the annual ACM\/IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, now in its 18th year, and has authored over 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications. \u0026nbsp;He is an inventor on over 60 United States patents awarded or in process.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Wearable Computing:  Through the Looking Glass"}],"uid":"27774","created_gmt":"2014-01-06 14:44:45","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:23:36","author":"Alishia Farr","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-03-27T12:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2014-03-27T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-03-27T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-03-27 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-03-27 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-03-27 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"283791":{"id":"283791","type":"image","title":"Thad Starner","body":null,"created":"1449244216","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:50:16","changed":"1475894978","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:38","alt":"Thad Starner","file":{"fid":"198991","name":"thad-glass-best.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thad-glass-best_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thad-glass-best_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":132194,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thad-glass-best_0.jpg?itok=_yaQTupO"}}},"media_ids":["283791"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}