Title
Hairware: Conductive hair extensions as a capacitive touch input device
Date Issued
2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Publisher(s)
Association for Computing Machinery
Abstract
Our aim is to use our own bodies as an interactive platform. We are trying to move away from traditional wearable devices worn on clothes and accessories where gestures are noticeable and remind cyborg looking. We follow Beauty Technology paradigm 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. Thus, we propose Hairware, a Beauty Technology Prototype that connects chemically metalized hair extensions to a microcontroller turning it into an input device for triggering different objects. Hairware acts as a capacitive touch sensor that detects touch variations on hair and uses machine learning algorithms in order to recognize user's intention. In this way, we add a new functionality to hair extensions, becoming a seamless device that recognizes auto-contact behaviors that no observers would identify. This work presents the design of Hairware's hardware and software implementation. In this demo, we show Hairware acting as a controller for smartphones and computers.
Start page
89
End page
92
Volume
29-March-2015
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ingenierĂas y tecnologĂas
Hardware, Arquitectura de computadoras
Ciencias de la computaciĂ³n
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84952681240
ISBN
9781450333085
Resource of which it is part
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI
ISBN of the container
978-145033308-5
Sources of information:
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