Inter[FACE]'s Idea

Codifying personal data into a hardware interface instead of decodifying reactions based on physical aspects.

Final project. Fab Academy 2017 at Fab Lab Barcelona By Trinidad Gomez Machuca

IDEA

First Idea

I still don't know what my project will be, but what I do know, is what I want to learn during the Fab Academy. For my final project I want to apply 4 things: Wearables, Soft Robotics, mold casting and real time data. For the final prototype, I would like to propose a new way to read/gather information beyond facial esthetic, this would be possible with the use of a dynamic mask that read real time data information. This mask would change color, inflate as a response, or modify the properties of the material. As an example: The mask could be connected with the number of likes in your Facebook page and depending on that number, it would give a particular respond. So at the end, we can wear in our faces something that can show information that we want to show instead of just physical aspects.

Pictures References

Some Video References

Process References

I would like to follow the same process of Rottlace masks for Björk by the Mediated Matter Group and MIT Media Lab but interactive.

Living Mushtari – 3d-printed and generatively grown microbial factory

IAAC workshop SKINS 2 ENCRYPTED BIOMETRICS

Other examples

Projects related with Mask

I found a lot of examples of masks that have been made them with the process of digital fabrication. 3d print are the most common but the purpose of all of them are the same, only to play with the algorithm of the data of the 3d images and show a parametrics or aesthetic result. Only one of the examples that I found was interesting. The Facial Weaponization Suite because they are against the face recongnition algorithm that governments use to identify infractors in the street since they are looking for maintain their anonymity, the only thing is that theire result still being aesthetic.

First

My idea is to fabricate a mask that interact with the data that I decide to show through the face. Depending on the amount of information, it will expand, change color, activate some sensor, etc., as you can see in the video.

Decoding Faces

What is the purpose of the face besides to provide to the brain the main input information for the brain? image visualization, smell, taste, sound, touch but from the perspective of the other people, face is used for identify fisical aspects and then reac. What can we read in a face? Age, gender, health, et. to carry a device that can transmit the information that we want to show.

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Fab Academy 2017	Fab Lab Barcelona	Trinidad A. Gomez Machuca
	IAAC	trinidad.gomez@iaac.net