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Luisa Paraguai studied Civil Engineering and Computing at University of São Paulo, Brazil. She has a master and doctoral degree at the Department of Multimedia, Institute of Arts, State University of Campinas, Brazil. She is a reviewer for Leonardo Digital Review.
She has been teaching at Post-Graduate Program: Master in Design, Anhembi Morumbi University.
Her master research examined the possibilities of presence through live images on the Web and she had subsequently presented conference papers, and developed artworks such as INcorpos, that deal with issues of being present on the Web.
Luisa was at Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, as visiting researcher-in-residence, researching about the social implications of wearable computers as an always on interface fully embodied on the user.
Her art work named vestis has been showed in some national exhibitions and international as the Cyber Fashion Show, SIGGRAPH2005, in Los Angeles.
Currently, she has reflected about the potential of wearable computer as a mediator for body and space perception and experimentation.

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