Software for Wearable Devices: Challenges and Opportunities
It identifies challenges and opportunities in software for wearable devices, which is an incremental review for researchers and developers in the field.
This paper summarizes the development and categories of wearable devices, and presents key issues such as operating systems, privacy, and energy consumption, without providing specific results or numbers.
Wearable devices are a new form of mobile computer system that provides exclusive and user-personalized services. Wearable devices bring new issues and challenges to computer science and technology. This paper summarizes the development process and the categories of wearable devices. In addition, we present new key issues arising in aspects of wearable devices, including operating systems, database management system, network communication protocol, application development platform, privacy and security, energy consumption, human-computer interaction, software engineering, and big data.