Fashionable Technology – The Next Generation of Wearables

Seymour, Sabine; Beloff, Laura

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-79870-5_9

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“…Soft computation is also predicated on traditional textile construction methods such as sewing, embroidery, and appliqué [sic] with various conductive and active materials to create interactive fabrics" (Berzowska and Bromley, 2007). Currently, wearables are extensively developed for medical (Patel et al, 2012), fashion (Seymoun and Bello, 2008), dance performance (Sicchio et al, 2016), and interactive installations (Giordano et al, 2015;Lamontagne et al, 2015). As musical interfaces, wearables have been predominantly materialized in the form of gloves (Sonami, 2014), and bodysuits (Bhagwati, 2018).…”

Section: Parallels Between the "Art Of Collaboration" The Maker Movement And Soft Computationmentioning

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Connecting Free Improvisation Performance and Drumming Gestures Through Digital Wearables

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High-level improvising musicians master idiosyncratic gesture vocabularies that allow them to express themselves in unique ways. The full use of such vocabularies is nevertheless challenged when improvisers incorporate electronics in their performances. To control electronic sounds and effects, they typically use commercial interfaces whose physicality is likely to limit their freedom of movement. Based on Jim Black's descriptions of his ideal digital musical instrument, embodied improvisation gestures, and stage performance constraints, we develop the concept of a modular wearable MIDI interface to closely meet the needs of professional improvisers, rather than proposing a new generic instrument that would require substantial practice to adapt improvisational techniques already acquired. Our research draws upon different bodies of knowledge, from theoretical principles on collaboration and embodiment to wearable interface design, in order to create a digital vest called Track It, Zip It (TIZI) that features two innovative on-body sensors. Allowing for sound control, these sensors are seamlessly integrated with Black's improvisational gesture vocabulary. We then detail the design process of three TIZI prototypes structured by the outcomes of a performance test with Black, a public performance by a novice improviser during the 2017 International Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, and measurements of sensor responses. After commenting on the strengths and weaknesses of the final TIZI prototype, we discuss how our interdisciplinary and collective process involving a world-class improviser at the very center of the design process can provide recommendations to designers who wish to create interfaces better adapted to high-level performers. Finally, we present our goals for the future creation of a wireless version of the vest for a female body based on Diana Policarpo's artistic vision.

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Section: Parallels Between the "Art Of Collaboration" The Maker Movement And Soft Computationmentioning

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Connecting Free Improvisation Performance and Drumming Gestures Through Digital Wearables

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“…Seymour and Beloff () suggest that human bodies will become a media interface through a variety of devices, whether held, worn, or embedded. Of course, potential adopters vary in their preferences for the extent to which media such as health‐related RFID (radio frequency identification) devices are worn on or embedded in their bodies (Katz & Rice, ).…”

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“…Even the use of Pokémon Go is associated with positive and negative real, physical, interpersonal, and social consequences, such as Pokémon dates, team competitions, exercise, and interacting with other players, but also injury, accidents, trespassing, and abduction. Seymour and Beloff (2008) suggest that human bodies will become a media interface through a variety of devices, whether held, worn, or embedded. Of course, potential adopters vary in their preferences for the extent to which media such as health-related RFID (radio frequency identification) devices are worn on or embedded in their bodies (Katz & Rice, 2009).…”

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“…For example, media are taking on aspects of fashion as wearable technology and even integrated into fabrics (Campbell, ; Fortunati, Katz, & Riccini, ). (Wearable communication technology is not technically new; Seymour & Beloff, , noted the popularity of cameras hidden in clothes in the 1870s.) Smart watches communicate with one's smartphone and computer, and indicate and provide messages; Bluetooth transmission allows one to wear a wireless earpiece for music or phone communication; and Snap camera glasses provide digital capabilities such as photography.…”

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Intermediality and the Diffusion of Innovations

Rice

2017

Hum Commun Res

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Interpersonal and mediated communication both play important roles in the diffusion of innovations, as part of the process, as well as the content, of diffusion. Yet the diffusion of new media has blurred the boundaries across interpersonal and mediated communication, and emphasized the decoupling of media from their attributes, summarized in the concept of intermediality. This article briefly considers implications of this intermediality for new media as process and content in five major components of the diffusion perspective: sources, rate and categories of adoption, attributes, communication networks, and consequences.

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“…The new interactive approach to the design of wearable objects is called "Fashionable Technology", a term coined by Sabine Seymour. It refers to an emerging field in which fashion, ubiquitous computing, design, science, and wearable technologies intersect (Seymour & Beloff, 2008). Fashionable wearables are 'designed' garments, accessories, or jewellery that combine aesthetics and style with functional technology (Seymour, 2009, p. 12).…”

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Investigating Interactive Biophilic Wearable Objects

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Designers apply different design elements such as form, colour, texture, light, and movement in the design of products. This interdisciplinary study aims to investigate the application of 'biophilic movement' in the design of interactive wearable objects, given that incorporating both natural inspiration (discipline of biology) and physical movement in the design of products can create a pleasurable experience for the users. In order to investigate how designers might incorporate 'biophilic movement' in the design of products, this research draws from the discipline of biology. The study applies inspiration derived from plant and animal movements, which have positive impacts on human psychology.Furthermore, this study takes a user-centered approach by applying different methods: exploring the people's emotional response to different biophilic movements incorporated in designed wearable objects. Based on these emotional responses, this thesis suggests that biophilic movement can potentially create a pleasurable experience and enhance the interaction between people and wearable objects with biophilic movements . The key findings of this study include: 1) Adding biophilic movement can add interest to biophilic wearable objects by engaging the people who interact with it; 2) Identifying and categorizing biologically inspired movements can help designers in the area of biology-to-design; and 3)Presenting a biophilic semantic differential scale that can be used to understand how people interpret movements in biophilic artifacts.

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Fashionable Technology – The Next Generation of Wearables

Cited by 10 publications

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Connecting Free Improvisation Performance and Drumming Gestures Through Digital Wearables

Connecting Free Improvisation Performance and Drumming Gestures Through Digital Wearables

Intermediality and the Diffusion of Innovations

Investigating Interactive Biophilic Wearable Objects

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