Skin icons can tap into promise of smartwatch

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 05:00 in Mathematics & Economics

You have heard it before: smartwatches are cool wearables but critics remind us of the fact that their small size makes many actions cumbersome and they question how many people will really have them on their shopping lists. A project at Carnegie Mellon could serve as an interesting lesson that with some imagination and skilled teamwork, the smartwatch-user interaction may not be as limited as one would think. Researchers there want to come up with approaches that expand the interactive envelope around smartwatches, allowing human input to surmount the physical confines of the device.

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