ABOUT

Wearable devices promise to be one of the next leading technologies, however they still struggle to emerge from the research laboratories. Perhaps it would be interesting to explore new ways to look at these kind of devices: aim of this paper is to discuss a new design space for wearable de- vices where they are not useful only to the wearer but also to an occasional glancer. The design space has been obtained through two field studies which gave an understanding of what kind of information should be conveyed in a wearable device and how it should be displayed. Finally it is also presented a possible implementation of those concepts through the developing of a prototype.