HALO: Wearable Lighting
What if lighting were not fixed to our architecture but becomes part of our body? Light would be only where it is needed. Buildings would light up brightly when busy, and dim down when people leave. Lighting would become more energy efficient, more personal, and colorful, tailored to individual need...
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| author | Zhao, Nan Paradiso, Joseph A. |
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| description | What if lighting were not fixed to our architecture but becomes part of our body? Light would be only where it is needed. Buildings would light up brightly when busy, and dim down when people leave. Lighting would become more energy efficient, more personal, and colorful, tailored to individual needs. What applications beyond illumination would be possible in such a scenario? Halo is a wearable lighting device that aims to investigate this question. More specifically Halo explores the potential of body-centered lighting technology to alter appearance and create a personal space for its wearer. A ring of colored LEDs frames the wearer's face, putting her into the light she desires. Borrowing from both theatrical and photographic lighting design, Halo has several different lighting compositions that make the wearer appear happy, sad, energetic, mysterious, etc. Using a smart phone application, the wearer can switch between these modes. She can also let the application adjust automatically depending on her activities. Halo is an experimental technology that combines function and fashion---a platform to probe the future of wearable lighting. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1037602022-09-29T09:14:23Z HALO: Wearable Lighting Zhao, Nan Paradiso, Joseph A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Zhao, Nan Paradiso, Joseph A. What if lighting were not fixed to our architecture but becomes part of our body? Light would be only where it is needed. Buildings would light up brightly when busy, and dim down when people leave. Lighting would become more energy efficient, more personal, and colorful, tailored to individual needs. What applications beyond illumination would be possible in such a scenario? Halo is a wearable lighting device that aims to investigate this question. More specifically Halo explores the potential of body-centered lighting technology to alter appearance and create a personal space for its wearer. A ring of colored LEDs frames the wearer's face, putting her into the light she desires. Borrowing from both theatrical and photographic lighting design, Halo has several different lighting compositions that make the wearer appear happy, sad, energetic, mysterious, etc. Using a smart phone application, the wearer can switch between these modes. She can also let the application adjust automatically depending on her activities. Halo is an experimental technology that combines function and fashion---a platform to probe the future of wearable lighting. 2016-07-19T16:05:30Z 2016-07-19T16:05:30Z 2015-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450335751 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103760 Zhao, Nan, and Joseph A. Paradiso. “HALO: Wearable Lighting.” in Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers - UBICOMP/ISWC '15 ADJUNCT, (2015), September 7-11, 2015, Osaka, Japan. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2810-5878 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0719-7104 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2801670 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers - UbiComp '15 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) MIT web domain |
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| title | HALO: Wearable Lighting |
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| title_short | HALO: Wearable Lighting |
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