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Sophie Kirkham, Fridolin Wild and Tjeerd olde Scheper There is increasing interest in employing immersive virtual reality or augmented reality and wearable technology to provide real-time motor performance feedback during rehabilitative arm exercises. Biofeedback systems have been shown to improve…
Brenda Bannan and Jack Burbridge This chapter provides an overview of an applied research and development process for engineering smart city learning solutions that incorporates a user experience (UX) design and research approach that has been leveraged in an emergency…
Jessica J. Rajko Wearable technology is moving closer to and even into human bodies, effectively rendering it invisible. Coined by Mark Weiser (1999) as Invisible Computing, wearable technologies now “weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are…
Eva Mårell-Olsson, Thomas Mejtoft and Jenny Kinert Pupils with concentration disorders need an education that is adapted for them for fulfilling the goals of their education. They often need an adjustable learning environment with fewer distractions. Unfortunately, the public education…
John Taxler In this piece, we ask readers and authors to stand back from the achievements, actors and activities described in the book and look at the wider context and critical issues. These include, Firstly, the relationships of wearables with…
Dan Kohen-Vacs, Gila Kurtz and Yanay Zaguri Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology expected to transform the way we live, work and learn. It consists of devices endowed with sensors as well as Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)…
Branda Bannan, Samantha Dubrow, Christian Dobbins, Stephen Zaccaro, Hemant Purohit and Mohammed Rana This chapter provides an overview of an exploratory case study involving a multiteam system in the fire and rescue emergency context incorporating human sensor analytics (e.g., proximity…
Eva Mårell-Olsson and Isa Jahnke Wearables such as smart glass technologies with augmented-reality functionalities have the advantages of being voice-controlled and hands-free. The person, for example the dentist, has both hands available for doing the actual work while using smart…
Cindy L. Anderson and Kevin M. Anderson Wearable technology offers opportunities for individuals with disabilities to engage with their environment with greater success and to be included in learning opportunities to a greater degree. “Wearables” mean digital devices and/or computers…
Martin P. Strzys, Michael Thees, Sebastian Kapp, Pascal Knierim, Albrecht Schmidt, Paul Lukowicz and Jochen Kuhn Learning is known to be a highly individual process affected by learners’ individual previous experience and self-directed action. Especially during laboratory courses in university…