ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a taxonomy of wearable computers and their applications, focusing on their problem solving capabilities. Wearable and context-aware computers have been developed from our iterative design methodology, with a wide variety of end users, mainly mobile workers. The taxonomy is illustrated by wearable systems evolving from basic stored information retrieval through synchronous/asynchronous collaboration within a team to context-aware platforms with a proactive assistant. Example evaluation methods illustrate how user testing can quantify the effectiveness of wearable systems.
