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Beauty Technology

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Given today’s wearables revolution, the human body is becoming a new design standpoint. Thus, the next logical step in wearable computing seems to be the use of the body’s roughly two square meters of skin as a canvas for applying sensors and attaching other computing devices in ways that enhance human experience. The body renewable surface, i.e., the skin, nails and hair plays crucial roles as a protective barrier, sensory monitor, heat and moisture regulator, and an integral part of the body’s immune system. Nevertheless, humanity, since its inception, has used beauty products to adorn the body for a variety of reasons. Nowadays, even remaining mostly aesthetically oriented beauty products are quite sophisticated given the advances in chemistry. This chapter introduces “Beauty Technology,” a Wearable Computing subfield 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.

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    Katia Vega & Hugo Fuks

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Vega, K., Fuks, H. (2016). Beauty Technology Definition. In: Beauty Technology. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15762-7_2

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