Title
Hairware: Designing conductive hair extensions for seamless interfaces
Date Issued
August 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
Due to increasing advances in electronics, devices are getting even more small and powerful, making it possible the widespread of wearable computing. However, most wearable devices have the electronics very distinguished and placed on clothes and accessories. Our proposal is Beauty Technology, a wearable computing subfield that uses the body’s surface as an interactive platform by integrating technology into beauty products applied directly to one’s skin, fingernails, and hair. This paper presents Hairware, a Beauty Technology that fosters a seamlessly looking approach to wearables. It is artificial hair extensions that are chemically metalized to maintain a natural coloration and when connected to a microcontroller could be used as both, input and output devices. This paper describes the design process in creating these conductive hair extensions and discuses lessons learned in the development of them.
Start page
696
End page
704
Volume
9187
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84947236804
ISBN
9783319208978
Source
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Resource of which it is part
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
ISSN of the container
03029743
ISBN of the container
978-331920897-8
Sponsor(s)
Hugo Fuks (Project 302230/2008-4) is a recipient of a grant awarded by the National Research Council (CNPq). This work was partially financed by Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro-FAPERJ/INCT (E-26/170028/2008) and CNPq/INCT (557.128/2009-9). Katia Vega is a postdoctoral fellow with grant funding from PNPD/CAPES Portaria 086/2013. Ricardo Aucelio acknowledges FAPERJ (E-26/201.406/2014) and CNPq (302888/20132-6) scholarships. We also thanks to Hugo Rojas from EAQ Labs for his first insights in the chemical process used on Hairware and Paulo José dos Santos from the Department of Chemistry (PUC-Rio) for his support during the chemistry process.
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