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This chapter presents a range of methodologies that address issues around designing for the emerging area of wearable technology, based upon a 1-year research cluster, The Emotional Wardrobe, and a 3-year user study project, Communication-Wear. The process of eliciting consumer desire is very central to this in order to gain insight into the catalysts and drivers for this new genre of fashion/clothing. For this we need to elicit the dreams, aspirations and desires of people using generative techniques and prototype as probe methods, to provide inspiration for designers. Design for appropriation empowers people to create their own stories and meanings for an age of personalisation, enabling them to be proactive rather than reactive to technological development. This emerging design space will necessitate increased levels of collaboration between industries. But how do we work together where there isn’t a history of doing so? Here we present the use of design as a way of thinking in order to manage knowledge flows, to facilitate knowledge creation, and a shared understanding.
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Acknowledgements are due to the participants in the Communication-Wear project, funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts scheme, UK: Philippa Brock of Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Erik Geelhoed of Hewlett-Packard Labs, Andrew Moore, a consultant, Phil Gosset of Vodafone Future Studies. Acknowledgements are due to the participants in The Emotional Wardrobe project, funded by The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council Designing for the twenty-first Century scheme, UK: Martin Woolley and Stephen Scrivener of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Erik Geelhoed of Hewlett-Packard Labs, Phil Gosset of Vodafone Future Studies, Matthew Chalmers of the Department of Computing Science at University of Glasgow, Peter Excell of the School of Informatics at University of Bradford, Joan Farrer of the School of Fashion and Textile Design at Royal College of Art, Jeremy Pitt and Petar Goulev of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Imperial College London, and Christian Heath of the Management Centre at King’s College London. Thanks are also due to Remko van der Lugt of the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, and Stijn Ossevort.
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Baurley, S. (2010). The Role of Design in Facilitating Multi-disciplinary Collaboration in Wearable Technology. In: Westerink, J., Krans, M., Ouwerkerk, M. (eds) Sensing Emotions. Philips Research Book Series, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3258-4_11
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