Title
Fluxa: Body movements as a social display
Date Issued
16 October 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
MIT Media Lab
Publisher(s)
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Abstract
This paper presents Fluxa, a compact wearable device that exploits body movements, as well as the visual effects of persistence of vision (POV), to generate mid-air displays on and around the body. When the user moves his/her limb, Fluxa displays a pattern that, due to retinal afterimage, can be perceived by the surrounding people. We envision Fluxa as a wearable display to foster social interactions. It can be used to enhance existing social gestures such as hand-waving to get attention, as a communicative tool that displays the speed and distance covered by joggers, and as a self-expression device that generates images while dancing. We discuss the advantages of Fluxa: a display size that could be much larger than the device itself, a semi-transparent display that allows users and others to see though it and promotes social interaction.
Start page
155
End page
157
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías
Sociología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84995584240
ISBN
9781450345316
Resource of which it is part
UIST 2016 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
ISBN of the container
978-145034531-6
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus