article Christian Plessl author 161530000-0001-5728-9982 Rolf Enzler author Herbert Walder author Jan Beutel author Marco Platzner author 398 Lothar Thiele author Gerhard Tröster author 518 department 78 department Wearable computers are embedded into the mobile environment of their users. A design challenge for wearable systems is to combine the high performance required for tasks such as video decoding with the low energy consumption required to maximise battery runtimes and the flexibility demanded by the dynamics of the environment and the applications. In this paper, we demonstrate that reconfigurable hardware technology is able to answer this challenge. We present the concept and the prototype implementation of an autonomous wearable unit with reconfigurable modules (WURM). We discuss experiments that show the uses of reconfigurable hardware in WURM: ASICs-on-demand and adaptive interfaces. Finally, we present an experiment with an operating system layer for WURM. Springer2003 eng 10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x 75299-308 yes Plessl, Christian, et al. “The Case for Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing.” <i>Personal and Ubiquitous Computing</i>, vol. 7, no. 5, Springer, 2003, pp. 299–308, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x">10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x</a>. @article{Plessl_Enzler_Walder_Beutel_Platzner_Thiele_Tröster_2003, title={The Case for Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing}, volume={7}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x">10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x</a>}, number={5}, journal={Personal and Ubiquitous Computing}, publisher={Springer}, author={Plessl, Christian and Enzler, Rolf and Walder, Herbert and Beutel, Jan and Platzner, Marco and Thiele, Lothar and Tröster, Gerhard}, year={2003}, pages={299–308} } Plessl C, Enzler R, Walder H, et al. The Case for Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing. <i>Personal and Ubiquitous Computing</i>. 2003;7(5):299-308. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x">10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x</a> C. Plessl <i>et al.</i>, “The Case for Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing,” <i>Personal and Ubiquitous Computing</i>, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 299–308, 2003. Plessl, C., Enzler, R., Walder, H., Beutel, J., Platzner, M., Thiele, L., &#38; Tröster, G. (2003). The Case for Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing. <i>Personal and Ubiquitous Computing</i>, <i>7</i>(5), 299–308. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x</a> Plessl, Christian, Rolf Enzler, Herbert Walder, Jan Beutel, Marco Platzner, Lothar Thiele, and Gerhard Tröster. “The Case for Reconfigurable Hardware in Wearable Computing.” <i>Personal and Ubiquitous Computing</i> 7, no. 5 (2003): 299–308. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-003-0243-x</a>. C. Plessl, R. Enzler, H. Walder, J. Beutel, M. Platzner, L. Thiele, G. Tröster, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 7 (2003) 299–308. 24192018-04-17T15:04:47Z2022-01-06T06:56:09Z