Title
Hairware: The conscious use of unconscious auto-contact behaviors
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
Beauty Technology is a wearable computing 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. Hairware is 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. Normally, while someone touches her own hair, unconsciously she is bringing comfort to herself and at the same time is emitting a non-verbal message decodable by an observer. However, when she replays that touch on Hairware, she is not just emitting a message to an observer, because touching her hair would trigger an object, creating in this way, a concealed interface to different devices. Therefore, Hairware brings the opportunity to make conscious use of an unconscious auto-contact behavior. We present Hairware's hardware and software implementation. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. ACM.
Start page
78
End page
86
Volume
2015-January
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Electroquímica
Dermatología, Enfermedades venéreas
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84939632978
ISBN
9781450333061
Resource of which it is part
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI
ISBN of the container
978-145033306-1
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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