Designing Towards Inward-Oriented Fashion Technology: Demo projects
Publication date
2020-07
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Toeters, Marina
Toussaint, Lianne
Russell, Kevin
ten Bhömer, Martijn
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Abstract
Fashion technology designs typically combine sensing technology and actuators to register and respond to information about the environment and/or the human body. The ways in which designers use and integrate these data into garments, however, varies on a scale from highly theatrical and outward-oriented designs to subtle and inward-oriented applications. This demo project presents five garment designs created between 2013 and 2020, that occupy the more utilitarian and inward-oriented end of the fashion technology spectrum. We demonstrate how these designs highlight the benefits of direct biofeedback and of keeping the personal data within the garment. The selection of projects aims to illustrate the importance of striking the right balance between sensing and actuation.
Keywords
Fashion technology, Clothing design, Personal biofeedback, Balancing sensing and actuation, Data privacy, Taverne, Human-Computer Interaction, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Cultural Studies
Citation
Toeters, M, Toussaint, L, Russell, K & ten Bhömer, M 2020, Designing Towards Inward-Oriented Fashion Technology : Demo projects. in DIS' 20 Companion : Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 357–360. https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3397093