Interfaces digitais sobre a pele: uma exploração de artefatos digitais semióticos multimidiáticos

Abstract

On the last decades researches have emerged on the topics of on-body technologies and on-body interactions exploring human factors (e.g: gesture, touch, perception, body characteristics, skin, among others) to conceive technological devices, systems and interfaces that uses the human body as an input and output of data has been accentuated prominently. Multi-media epithelial artifacts developed through Augmented Reality have created a new experimental domain in Art & Technology that can be designated as digital skin interfaces. Summarizing, experiments in this domain: (i) combine real and digital objects on the surface of the skin, and (ii) are performed interactively by their users in real time. These multimodal epithelial artifacts transform the skin into an interface, taking advantage of the body's surface (skin characteristics, skin micro-movements, body movements) by providing modes of interaction (built-in and tangible interaction) between the skin and computer systems. The skin becomes a dynamic space and semi-structured in a multimodal (visual, auditory or haptic). This research can be summarized as follows: (i) from the scope of art & technology to analyze a new augmented reality system for generating digital skin interfaces (ii) to test the set of functionalities of this system considering artistic perfomance environments.This research focuses on the main projects recently developed in the domain called skin interfaces and explores the experimental potential in art and performance contexts of a new system based on augmented reality for image generation in the skin resulting from collaboration with the Laboratory of Intelligent and Cognitive Systems (LASIC), State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS), Bahia.