The Emotional Wardrobe

Authors:
Lisa Stead;Petar Goulev;Caroline Evans;Ebrahim Mamdani
Affiliations:
School of Fashion and Textile Design, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, 107-109 Charing Cross Road, London, UK;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, UK;School of Fashion and Textile Design, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, 107-109 Charing Cross Road, London, UK;Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, UK
Venue:
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Since the industrial revolution, fashion and technology have been linked through the textile and manufacturing industries, a relationship that has propelled technical innovation and aesthetic and social change. Today, a new alliance is emerging through the integration of electronic technology and smart materials on the body. This study addresses the integration of technology with clothing from a fashion perspective, and examines its expressive and interactive potential. It proposes the concept of “The Emotional Wardrobe”: clothing that represents and stimulates emotional response through the interface of technology. It asks if fashion can offer a more personal and provocative definition of self, which actively involves the wearer in a mutable aesthetic identity. A multi-disciplinary framework combines fashion, material science and the real-time, affective computing platform, called “AffectiveWare”. By merging technology and fashion, The Emotional Wardrobe becomes a poetic interface, shifting emphasis from human–computer interaction to computer-aided, human–human communication.