Google Glass: Who’s Watching YOU?
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2015
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Purdue University Global
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Mobile computing has been around now for over 30 years, arguably beginning with the Compaq Portable “suitcase” computer back in 1982. The Portable weighed in at a hefty 28 lbs., not exactly the type of device that you’d forget you were carrying! Fast forward 3 decades and we are now surrounded by much smaller, lighter devices that easily fit in a pocket, or, in the case of Google Glass, on our nose.
Google Glass is a perfect example of Weiser’s (1991) “ubiquitous computing” concept, which predicted an array of wearable devices aimed at providing the user with a range of location-based services and context-aware applications that would track the user’s movements, ostensibly to aid that user as they moved through their environment. The fourth update (in late 2013) to Google Glass’s capabilities allows a Glass user to keep track of dinner or concert reservations, stay posted on weather and traffic and conditions, and even the ability to search local movie theater showings and locations. (Article introduction used in place of an abstract.)
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Originally published on the “Industry Insights” section of the Kaplan University website.
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