Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display
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 per...
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| author | Liu, Xin Vega, Katia Qian, Jing Paradiso, Joseph Maes, Pattie |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1251372022-09-30T12:26:23Z Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display Liu, Xin Vega, Katia Qian, Jing Paradiso, Joseph Maes, Pattie Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory 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. 2020-05-08T15:05:01Z 2020-05-08T15:05:01Z 2016-10 2019-07-24T14:18:30Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450345316 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125137 Liu, Xin et al. "Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display." Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (October 2016): 155–157 © 2016 The Author(s) en http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2984751.2985741 Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf ACM Press MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Liu, Xin Vega, Katia Qian, Jing Paradiso, Joseph Maes, Pattie Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display |
| title | Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display |
| title_full | Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display |
| title_fullStr | Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display |
| title_short | Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display |
| title_sort | fluxa body movements as a social display |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125137 |
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