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SGASDP: Smart Glasses Application Software Development Platform

Authors:
Jing Chen
Yu-Chieh Pai
Jian-Hong Liu

Keywords: smart glasses; wearable computing; application development; Android; application launcher

Abstract:
Smart glasses have inspired a variety of applications with innovation in many areas ranging from personal life to industry. However, owing to some uncertainties in application trends, which raise the issues concerning security and privacy, and the difference in the human-computer interaction between smart glasses and popular smart phones, not only consumers hesitate, but also the makers do not seem to invest much in supporting application software development. Therefore, the developers of smart glasses applications mostly could only rely on traditional Google Android application development tools and suffer from cost in terms of work load and time. This paper presents an application software development platform for smart glasses, namely SGASDP (Smart Glasses Application Software Development Platform), which is intended to increase the productivity and the efficiency in building smart glasses applications, as well as to help enhance the user experience of developers during the development process. The development of SGASDP adopts as its base the original application development platform of Google Android systems. This work extends the part of software development kit (SDK) by integrating, as built-in components, an SDK for live streaming and an SDK for voice recognition. In addition, development aids are added into the platform, which include a smart glasses display layout design tool and an expandable API usage helper. SGAPDP has been tested via developing application software for products of two local smart glasses makers. The success in the development demonstrates the contribution of this work.

Pages: 56 to 61

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: October 8, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9286

ISBN: 978-1-61208-596-8

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from October 8, 2017 to October 12, 2017