Google Glass, other wearables & education

UAF TECHFESTJennifer Moss, Instructional Designer,

wearable technology

images from: The Wall Street Journal article ‘Google Glass, an Etiquette guide’

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sousveillanceSteve Mann, Father of Wearable Technology

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image by: NY Daily News

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“The benefit of wearable technology is that it can conveniently integrate tools, devices, power needs, and connectivity within a user’s everyday life and movements.” (Horizon Report Wiki)

image from: www.medgadget.com

http://spaceglasses.com

http://youtu.be/6wJ9Aakddng

images from: TED talk by Katherine Kuchenbecker: The technology of touch

help you

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http://thenerdyvet.com

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AUTHENTICATIONBY HEARTBEAT

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google glass

what’s inside

CameraPhotos - 5 MPVideos - 720p

AudioBone Conduction Transducer

ConnectivityWifi - 802.11b/gBluetooth - tethering

Storage12 GB of usable memory, synced with Google cloud storage. 16 GB Flash total.

BatteryOne full day of typical use. Some features, like video calls and video recording, are more battery intensive.

image from: http://www.catwig.com/google-glass-teardown/

types of apps

1. the officially supported Glassware - a subscription service that runs via the Mirror API and can exchange information between a server app and your Google Glass

2. the native Android Apps for Google Glass - can be “side loaded” in google glass via ADB (Android Debug Bridge), a toolkit included in the Android SDK

Glass App Control Center available for Android only - can do live screencasting.

Google announced a Glass App store is on the way

app dev

https://developers.google.com/glass/

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buttons

POWERCAMERA- one quick click for photo

- one long click for 10 second video

- for video longer than 10 seconds, get the video started and then click again

click once to turn on will make a soundwhen turning off

TAP wake up; click (choose)

tap here

HEAD TILT UP (30º) wake up

SWIPE DOWN go back, cancel, go to sleep

SWIPE BACKWARD go forward through timeline, go to settings

SWIPE FORWARD go back through the timeline of cards

gesture controls

voice control

say it! “ok glass”

say one of these options like

“take a picture”

Timeline “Cards”

contextual search

“ok glass” -> “google” -> “movies” “ok glass” -> “google” -> “alaska airlines flight 112”“ok glass” -> “google” -> “how do i say hello in arabic?”

http://elearning.uaf.edu/go/techwear

community

Glass in education • documentary filmmaking (American Film

Institute, CIA, Rhode Island School of Design, UCLA, USC)

• field trips via Hangout (CERN)

• medical students - point of eye of surgeon

• STEMBite (https://www.youtube.com/user/STEMbite)

• flipped classroom

• multiple perspectives of same event

• flying drones

• cooking demonstrations

• phobia desensitization training

thanks!

http://elearning.uaf.edu/go/techwear

Jennifer MossUAF eLearningj.moss@alaska.edu907.479.4704