Readings

Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing
The Scientific American Article describes one application of Wearable Computing: Overlaying contextual information over normal vision.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=1&articleID=0006378C-CDE1-1CC6-B4A8809EC588EEDF

Developments and Possibilities
Diploma thesis which discusses conceptual and real-world applications of wearables as well as social implications. Also describes a prototype implementation using a Xybernaut MA IV.
http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/thesis

Dress Code
Somewhat critical overview article from Wired featuring the oldest wearable computer (1981).
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.04/wearables.html

Skills Impact Study for Tactical Mobile Robot Operational Units
The article, in principal focused on telepresence robot control, gives a nice overview on wearable computing and augmented reality on its first thirty pages and later on goes into detail on possible human feedback channels. [PDF]
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ai/robot-lab/tmr/skillsassessment.pdf