Our head-worn display optical design is selected for the cover of the IEEE 2006 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) proceedings.

Research interests:

Current Projects:

Eyeglass based display




Here is some local data on the slashdot effect:

Past Projects:

• Facilitating Agent in Multicultural Exchange (FAME). Funded by Information Society Technologies (IST).
  In FAME project, we are designing a context-aware meeting support system combining vision, speech
  and languageand human computer interaction technologies.
  

  FAME Augmented Meeting Environment will be available at the Barcelona 2004 Cultural Forum,
  assisting visitors in planning and reporting of their trips during the cultural forum.
  

• Fiber Computing [electronic textiles](FiCom). Funded by European Commission Disappearing Computer
  initiative. In collaboration with National Microelectronic Research Center (NMRC),
  Ireland and Swiss Material Testing and Research Lab (EMPA).

  Idea: Fabricating transistors on the fibers that form the fabric
  of our clothing.

  [Turned out that this idea has some potential of being feasible
  using silicon on insulator (SOI) technique. Unfortunately, I (along with Metin and Manuela)
  wasn't involved (due to the bankruptcy of our lab) throughout the implementation even though,
  we concieved this concept and got it funded. However, our partners continued on and will display
  initial results at the International Symposium on Wearable Computer (ISWC '03),
  check out their paper here.

  There is also a journal publication in advanced materials engineering titled

  "Computing Fibers: A Novel Fiber for Intelligent Fabrics?"]

• i-Wear. A Starlab consortium on intelligent clothing.

  Summary: The i-Wear project is an interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial
  forum for researchers, businesses and users aimed at enabling new
  technologies, fostering newalliances and creating future markets for
  intelligent clothing. It focuses on the seamless integration of textiles,
  electronics, design and fashion toward a vision of functionalizableclothing.

• Today's Stories. Supported by ESPRIT-I3.
  

  Summary: Today's Stories develops an approach to learning for young children
  (4 to 8) that is aimed at the development of social, communicative and emotional
  skills in the context of the everyday activities of children. Technical parts
  included developing wearable technology to document such different perspectives,
  as well as tangible interfaces to review and to manipulate these episodes.

• Mobile Infosphere. Supported by US National Science Foundation (NSF).
  A Spatial Interface for Wireless Networked Augmented Reality Displays.

Also check out T-Garden. Here is a presentation that outlines tgarden.

Publications:

• O. Cakmakci and J. Rolland. Dual-Element Off-Axis Near-Eye Magnifier. In press Optics Letters, Vol.32, No. 11, 2007.
• O.Cakmakci, A. Oranchak and J. Rolland. Dual-element off-axis eyeglass based display.
  In Proc. Optical Society of America International Optical Design Conference (IODC), 2006, Vancouver, Canada.
• O. Cakmakci and J. Rolland. Head-Worn Displays: A Review. IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology 2(3).
  Sep 2006. Invited Paper.
• O. Cakmakci, A. Oranchak and J. Rolland. Design and Analysis of a Compact Dual-Element Off-Axis Display.
  International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Oct 11-14, 2006. Montreux, Switzerland.
• O. Cakmakci, Y. Ha and J. Rolland. Design of a compact optical see-through headworn display with mutual occlusion capability.
  Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization VIII. SPIE Symposium on Optics and Photonics, 31 Jul-4 Aug 2005, San Diego, CA.
• O. Cakmakci and F. Berard. Back to Paper: A Technique for Browsing Multimedia Information by Pointing on Handwritten Notes.
  To appear the in late breaking results section of Pervasive 2005. Munich, Germany. [Video]
• J. Rolland and O. Cakmakci. "The Past, Present and Future of Head-Mounted Display(HMD) Designs".
  Invited Talk. Photonics Asia 2004. Beijing, China.
• O. Cakmakci, Y. Ha and J. Rolland. A Compact See-through Head-Worn Display with Occlusion Support.
  In Proc. IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality '04 (ISMAR 04).

• O. Cakmakci, M. Koyuncu, M. Eber-Koyuncu, E. Duriadu, A. Matthewson, J. Donnely, B. O'neill, T. Healy, F. Clemens.
  Fiber Computing: Towards more wearable computing. Unpublished.
• Ozan Cakmakci and Francois Berard. An Augmented Reality Based Learning Assistant for Electric Bass Guitar.
  In Proc. 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction, June 22-27, 2003, Crete, Greece.
  [Video:France 3 Television coverage snippet]
• O. Cakmakci, J. Coutaz, K. Van Laerhoven, H. Gellersen. Context awareness in systems with limited resources.
  Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2002), Lyon, France.
• O. Cakmakci, M. Koyuncu and M. Eber-Koyuncu. Fiber Computing. In Proc. of the
  Workshop on Distributed and Disappearing User Interfaces in Ubiquitous Computing,
  Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2001), April 1-2, 2001, Seattle, WA, USA.
• O. Cakmakci. A magnetic finger tracker. Proc. 9th International on
  Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2001). August 5-10, 2001, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• K. Van Laerhoven and O. Cakmakci. What shall we teach our pants? In Proc. International
  Conference on Wearable Computing (ISWC 2000), Atlanta, GA, USA.
  
• Biocca, F., Cakmakci, O., Czischke, J., DeVries, J., Huang, H., Kind, K., Nowak, K., Witt, M. (1998)
  "Virtual & Augmented Reality" In A. Grant. Communication Technology Update.
  6th Ed. Butterworth-Heinemann.

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