Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display
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Fluxa-UIST-CR.pdf
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Author(s)
Liu, Xin
Vega, Katia
Qian, Jing
Paradiso, Joseph
Maes, Pattie
Date Issued
October 2016
Journal
Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Publisher
ACM Press
Citation
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)
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Author's final manuscript
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.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1145/2984751.2985741
