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CARTON Project: Do-It-Yourself Approach to Turn a Smartphone into a Smart Eyewear

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Susan M. Ferreira,

Charles Gouin-Vallerand,

Sébastien GeorgeAuthors Info & Claims

MoMM '16: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multi Media

Pages 128 - 136

https://doi.org/10.1145/3007120.3007134

Published: 28 November 2016 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a tool to transform a smartphone into a smart eyewear, named "CARTON", following a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach. The hardware prototype is made with very simple materials and regular tools we could find anywhere. It also includes a Software Development Kit (SDK) with samples in order to easily adapt or develop new mobile app compatible with this kind of device. By providing everything open-source and open-hardware, we intend to solve the reachability of technologies related to smart eyewear and aim to accelerate research around it. Users experiments were conducted in which participants were asked to create, by themselves, the CARTON's hardware part and perform usability tests with their own creation. Qualitative user feedback and quantitative results prove that CARTON is functional and feasible by anyone, without specific skills.

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CARTON Project: Do-It-Yourself Approach to Turn a Smartphone into a Smart Eyewear
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3594739.3610680
Khakurel JPorras JMelkas HFu B(2020)A Comprehensive Framework of Usability Issues Related to the Wearable DevicesConvergence of ICT and Smart Devices for Emerging Applications10.1007/978-3-030-41368-2_2(21-66)Online publication date: 20-May-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41368-2_2
Gaver WBoucher AVanis MSheen ABrown DOvalle LMatsuda NAbbas-Nazari APhillips RBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)My Naturewatch CameraProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300532(1-13)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290605.3300532
Stigberg SHenze NWoźniak PVäänänen KWilliamson JSchneegass S(2017)A critical review on participation in mobile interaction design researchProceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia10.1145/3152832.3156629(345-354)Online publication date: 26-Nov-2017
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Brun DFerreira SGouin-Vallerand CGeorge S(2017)A mobile platform for controlling and interacting with a do-it-yourself smart eyewearInternational Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications10.1108/IJPCC-02-2017-001113:1(41-61)Online publication date: 3-Apr-2017
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPCC-02-2017-0011

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