Digital craftsmanship in the wearable senses lab

Andersen, Kristina; Rocha, Beatriz; Tomico, Oscar; Toeters, Marina; Mackey, Angella; Nachtigall, Troy

doi:10.1145/3341163.3346943

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“…Theoretically, we intertwined technology and craft with each other to influence material exploration. Our approach echoes the notion of digital craftsmanship proposed by Andersen et al [71], who suggested that electronic wearable projects are anchored not only in technology but also in fashion design with a designerly and artistic aim. In this paper, technological thinking was incorporated into the crafting process to enrich the vocabulary and methods of craft.…”

Section: Implications For Materials Transformation Designsupporting

confidence: 70%

Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

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To promote a resilient user-product relationship for sustainable fashion, design methods for emotional durability are required. Digitally transformable fashion design can be seen as a practical approach that enables dynamic, sensory, experiential, and emotional interaction. Literature shows that features of transformable fashion and textiles, such as versatility, perceived quality, biomorphic forms, and aesthetics, can induce emotional durability in users. However, mainstream works are conducted from function-oriented and technology-led perspectives, neglecting the significance of fashion design as a creative and affective role. To fill the gap, we present exhaustive accounts of two autobiographical design projects as case studies: Pneum-Muscle, a body-worn pneumatic wearable, and E-coral, an artistic interactive textile installation. We utilised the first-person soma design method to facilitate the iterative design and unfold the emotional connection between the user and the materials. We contribute technology-embedded fashion design strategies to inspire novice fashion designers, which involve dynamic draping, ambiguous cutting, and sewing technique-based pneumatic systems. Design guidelines generated can shed new light on the artistic use of technologies, somatic design, and the emotionally durable design approach.

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Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

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“…The felds of smart textiles and clothing have been growing, innovating the traditionally material-oriented disciplines with programming and electronics. The digital era of textile and clothing design features digital production, personalized design process, and end user programming [2]. Smart textile and clothing projects embedded with interactive systems require a better integration between materials, electronics, circuitry design, material construction methods, and on-body deployment [1,9].…”

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Integrating Interactive Technology Concepts With Material Expertise in Textile Design Disciplines

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Stewart

Bryan-Kinns

2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Textile and fashion designers are increasingly interested in integrating interactive technologies into their practice. However, traditional design education typically lacks support for them to develop technical digital and electronics skills alongside their expertise in materials. Refecting on outputs from an e-textile design workshop and 8-week design projects with four textile design students using an e-textile toolkit, and follow-up data collection with the students one year after the projects, we argue that starting technical explorations with raw materials results in a better understanding and more fexible use of technical knowledge. We also argue that this newly acquired knowledge is then more fully integrated with their pre-existing material knowledge as it is applied to physical interface design. The results contribute to the development of tools and approaches in supporting designers with material expertise to learn tangible interaction design skills. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Interface design prototyping.

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“…This way of working has created a new perspective on making where the digital meets the hand in ever evolving ways. We consider this a kind of digital craftsmanship, which leans equally on the capabilities of the digital machinery and the skill and craft of human hands at the intersection of the digital and non-digital [1]. In this way, digital systems are creating new possibilities for the practice of craftsmanship that then may unlock the potential of existing expressive media and encourage the creation of others [8].…”

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Making Matters: Samples and Documentation in Digital Craftsmanship

Rocha

Spork

Andersen

2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Digital fabrication machines enable the creation of a wide range of artifacts and materials. In the process of exploring the possibilities within these digital modes of creation, many samples are made. To encourage crosspollination between different practices and strive for a community that shares more information, this research investigates the state of the art of sample making and documentation practices in the context of Digital Craftsmanship. Through in-depth interviews with designers with a focus on digital craftsmanship, in this paper we unpack some of the practices and challenges in material driven processes related to how to design, evaluate, document and archive material samples. We reflect on making practices, what forms of knowledge are produced through making and how the use of samples in different design processes can be supported through documentation.

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Digital craftsmanship in the wearable senses lab

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

Integrating Interactive Technology Concepts With Material Expertise in Textile Design Disciplines

Making Matters: Samples and Documentation in Digital Craftsmanship

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