Title
Fluxa: Body movements as a social display
Date Issued
16 October 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Liu X.
Qian J.
Paradiso J.
Maes P.
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
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
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