An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Design Course for Wearable and Pervasive Computing Products

This paper reports on a design experience for undergraduates in computer engineering, industrial design, and marketing that focuses on pervasive computing devices. Across a broad range of targeted application areas and user groups, many of the student designs have been wearable computers. Consequent...

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Published in2011 15th Annual International Symposium on Wearable Computers pp. 61 - 68
Main Authors Martin, T., Kahyun Kim, Forsyth, J., McNair, L., Coupey, E., Dorsa, E.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2011
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Accelerometers
Diabetes
Fires
Interdisciplinary design
pervasive computing
Prototypes
Sensors
Wearable computers
wearable computing
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Summary:This paper reports on a design experience for undergraduates in computer engineering, industrial design, and marketing that focuses on pervasive computing devices. Across a broad range of targeted application areas and user groups, many of the student designs have been wearable computers. Consequently, our course will be of interest to the wearable computing community, particularly in terms of our aim of bridging the gap between design and engineering. For the two most recent offerings of the course, we have utilized external observers and surveyed the students in order to validate the impact of aspects of our process and changes to it. This paper presents an overview of our process with both qualitative and quantitative results from these two most recent offerings.
ISBN:1457707748
9781457707742
ISSN:1550-4816
2376-8541
DOI:10.1109/ISWC.2011.13