Smart wristband: Touch-and-motion-tracking wearable 3D input device for smart glasses

Abstract

The smart wristband is a novel type of wearable input device for smart glasses, and it can control multi-dimensional contents by using touch and motion. The smart wristband uses a touch-and-motion-tracking system with a touch screen panel (TSP) and inertial measurement unit (IMU) to help users control the smart glasses' interface accurately and quickly without environmental noise, distortion, and multi-leveled pattern recognition tasks. This paper presents the availability and usability of the smart glasses; how exactly and quickly users can manipulate the smart glasses' multi-dimensional contents and augmented reality (AR) system by selecting, moving, and changing contents via touching and dragging a finger and rotating the wrist; the device's point-and-click capacity; and its navigation, program switchover, zoom in and out, undo and redo for interactions, and 3D virtual object manipulation aspects for application. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.