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Royal College of Art students Becky Pilditch, Matt Johnson, Isabel Lizardi and Bibi Nelson took the concept of skin-as-the-new-interface to a new level with “Bare,” a body paint that conducts electricity. The non-toxic ink transforms skin into a highly conductive surface, providing a low resistance contact between the surface of the skin and an electrode. [...]

This year for the first time there was a workshop at CHI in conjunction with Dorkbot: DIY for CHI Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization. The workshop coincided with the 27th annual conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) ACM SIGCHI 2009 held in Boston, USA this year 4-9 April. The workshop seemed like a [...]