Using wearable computers for passive haptic learning & rehabilitation: Thad Starner at TEDxSalford
Professor Thad Starner is the founder & director of the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech and Technical Lead on Google’s Project Glass. He is considered as one of the original pioneers of wearable computing as well as a researcher in human-computer interaction, augmented environments, and pattern recognition. He is a strong advocate of continuous-access, everyday-use systems, and has worn his own customized wearable computer continuously since 1993.
Thad received a PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory, where he founded the MIT Wearable Computing Project. Starner was perhaps the first to integrate a wearable computer into his everyday life as a personal assistant, and he coined the term “augmented reality” in 1990 to describe the types of interfaces he envisioned at the time. His groups’ prototypes on mobile context-based search, gesture-based interfaces, mobile MP3 players, and mobile instant messaging foreshadowed now commonplace devices and services. Thad is a founder of the annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, and his work has been discussed in many forums including CNN, NPR, the BBC, CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC’s 48 Hours, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
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Curators: Mishal Saeed & Uzair F. Butt
Technical Lead: Mark Earnshaw
Camerawork: Nathan Rae & Team – http://nathanrae.co.uk/
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