Thesis Description & Objectives
Wearable AI devices, particularly smart-glasses like Meta Ray-Ban Display, face a “Usage Paradox”: the friction between always-on utility (integration with AI without chip implants) and social/environmental constraints (privacy, battery, smartphone competition, and input limitations).
Objective:
Design and evaluate Edge-AI frameworks, solutions or HCI paradigms that enable smart-glasses to function as context-aware extensions of the user’s digital persona without infringing on social or legal norms and expanding possibilities in interacting with digital contents.
Different theses path are available to be pursued:
1. Seamless Hybridization with Smartphone: Cross-device interaction (HCI) and low-latency input handoffs between smartphone and smartglass.
2. Privacy Mitigation: Developing software-based solutions and/or pragmatic “Privacy Shields” for bystander protection.
3. Misbehavior or Misuse Detection: Recognizing forbidden usage (e.g., exams, banks, etc.) via sensor fusion (Vision+Bluetooth) without requiring eyewear removal as a prehemptive countermeasure.
4. Low-Power tracking optimization. Optimization of SLAM and object detection pipelines for all-day wearable battery performance. E.G. Exploitation in Entertainment settings, e.g. Augmented Theatres.
5. Impact on Social Dynamics and Behaviours: analyzing how sentiment, and habits of people will be affected by large scale adoption of this devices. Qualitative & quantitative analysis of behavioral shifts in high-frequency AR/AI interaction settings.
