About the Authors

Gabriel Aldaz

Affiliation Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Lauren Aquino Shluzas

lauren.aquino@stanford.edu

Affiliation Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

David Pickham

Affiliation Stanford Health Care, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Ozgur Eris

Affiliation Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Joel Sadler

Affiliation Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Shantanu Joshi

Affiliation Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Larry Leifer

Affiliation Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors disclose that a provisional patent has been filed on the SnapCap system. [Lauren A. Shluzas, Gabriel Aldaz, Shantanu Joshi, Joel Sadler, and David Pickham. (2014) A wearable computer with a head mounted display for hands-free image capture and bi-directional communication with external sensors. US Provisional Patent No. 61968857, March 2014.] This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAS GA SSJ JS DP LJL. Performed the experiments: LAS GA SSJ. Analyzed the data: LAS GA OE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAS GA DP SSJ OE. Wrote the paper: LAS GA SSJ JS DP LJL. Reconducted the paper’s statistical analysis using non-parametric methods: OE GA LAS.