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Wearable HUD for Ecological Field Research Applications

A Development Experience on the Design of a Wearable Mobile System

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Wearable devices have emerged in the last years with new applications that provide user convenience. Healthcare, sports, safety are some examples of areas in which wearable devices have been used. This paper overviews wearable architectures found in the literature and presents a novel wearable for monitoring ecological environments. The wearable includes a Head-UP Display (HUD) assembled with Google Cardboard API and sensors connected to a development board. Our wearable device provides several functionalities such as distance measurement to objects and weather conditions monitoring. Camera and green lasers combined with a digital image processing algorithm are used to measure the distance to objects. We different development boards to build the system.

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We thank the researchers Fabrício Antonio Lopes and Prof. Dr. Cláudio Eduardo Lana of the Federal University of Ouro Preto for providing the pictures. Thanks for iMobilis Lab and the Federal University of Ouro Preto to support this project.

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  1. Federal University of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil

    Saul Delabrida, Thiago D’Angelo & Ricardo Augusto Rabelo Oliveira

  2. Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Antonio Alfredo F. Loureiro

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Delabrida, S., D’Angelo, T., Rabelo Oliveira, R.A. et al. Wearable HUD for Ecological Field Research Applications. Mobile Netw Appl 21, 677–687 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-016-0724-6

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