DuoSkin draws from the aesthetics found in metallic jewelry-like temporary tattoos to create on-skin devices which resemble jewelry. DuoSkin devices enable users to control their mobile devices, display information, and store information on their skin while serving as a statement of personal style. We believe that in the future, on-skin electronics will no longer be black-boxed and mystified; instead, they will converge towards the user friendliness, extensibility, and aesthetics of body decorations, forming a DuoSkin integrated to the extent that it has seemingly disappeared.

Credits

MIT Media Lab in collaboration with Microsoft Research.

MIT Media Lab: Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Andres Calvo, Chris Schmandt
Microsoft Research: Asta Roseway, Christian Holz, Paul Johns

Photo: Jimmy Day

The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at MIT devoted to projects at the convergence of technology, multimedia, sciences, art and design.

Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft. It focuses on advancing state-of-the-art computing and solves difficult world problems through technological innovation in collaboration with academic, government, and industry researchers.

DuoSkin is a collaboration between MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Reseach. The lead researchers, respectively from MIT and Microsoft, are Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao (TW) and Asta Roseway (US).

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This project is presented in the framework of the STARTS Prize 2017. STARTS Prize received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 732019.