Category Archives: IUI 2015

Hairware: The Conscious Use of Unconscious Auto-contact Behaviors

Beauty Technology is a wearable computing paradigm that uses the body’s surface as an interactive platform by integrating technology into beauty products applied directly to one’s skin, fingernails and hair. Hairware is a Beauty Technology Prototype that connects chemically metalized hair extensions to a microcontroller turning it into an input device for triggering different objects.… Continue reading →

[Best Demo] Hairware: Conductive Hair Extensions as a Capacitive Touch Input Device

Our aim is to use our own bodies as an interactive platform. We are trying to move away from traditional wearable devices worn on clothes and accessories where gestures are noticeable and remind cyborg looking. We follow Beauty Technology paradigm that uses the body’s surface as an interactive platform by integrating technology into beauty products… Continue reading →

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