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Stefan Schneegass, Sophie Ogando, Florian Alt
Using On-Body Displays for Extending the Output of Wearable Devices
In PerDis 2016: Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. Oulu, Finland, June 20-22, 2016. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)

In this work, we explore wearable on-body displays. These displays have the potential of extending the display space of smart watches to the user's body. Our research is motivated by wearable computing devices moving technology closer to the human. Today, smart watches offer functionalities similar to smart phones, yet at a smaller form factor. To cope with the limited display real-estate we propose to use on-body displays integrated with clothing to extend the available display space. We present a design space for on-body displays and explore user`s location and visualization preferences. We further report on the design and implementation of a prototypical display system. We evaluated the prototype in a lab study with 16 participants, showing that on-body displays perform similar to current off-screen visualization techniques. %Our research is complemented by presenting X applications that can benefit from such displays.