Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 01: Introduction

Making Sense of Wearables

ITP, Spring 2015

Class 01

Introduction

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Wellbeing

Seeing & Mediated Reality

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Hearing & Feeling / Touching

Seeing & Mediated Reality

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Hearing & Feeling / Touching

Identity and the Qualified Self

Seeing & Mediated Reality

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 01: Introduction

Hearing & Feeling / Touching

Wellbeing

Identity and the Qualified Self

Seeing & Mediated Reality

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 01: Introduction

Hearing & Feeling / Touching

Wellbeing

Identity and the Qualified Self

Seeing & Mediated Reality

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Hearing & Feeling / Touching

Fashion Dilemmas

Culture, Symbols & Gestures

Wellbeing

Intimacy and Communication

Identity and the Qualified Self

Seeing & Mediated Reality

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Hearing & Feeling / Touching

Fashion DilemmasTime, Space, Location & Distance

Wellbeing

Intimacy and Communication

Identity and the Qualified Self

Seeing & Mediated Reality

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 01: Introduction

Hearing & Feeling / Touching

Fashion Dilemmas

Culture, Symbols & Gestures

Time, Space, Location & Distance

Wellbeing

Intimacy and Communication

Identity and the Qualified Self

Seeing & Mediated Reality

Making Sense of Wearables | Despina Papadopoulos | ITP, NYU Spring 2015 Class 01: Introduction

Hearing & Feeling / Touching

Fashion Dilemmas

Culture, Symbols & Gestures

Time, Space, Location & Distance

Wellbeing

Intimacy and Communication

Identity and the Qualified Self

Seeing & Mediated Reality

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Hearing & Feeling / Touching

Fashion Dilemmas

Culture, Symbols & Gestures

Materials and Materiality

Time, Space, Location & Distance

Wellbeing

Intimacy and Communication

Identity and the Qualified Self

Seeing & Mediated Reality

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THE HUMAN BODY

WEARING CLOTHES (FASHION?)

WHAT IS TO BE HUMAN - human centered design- behavioral change- being “better”

WHAT DO WE WANT TO SEE / HEAR / FEEL / BE

& TECHNOLOGY

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The Fall from Paradise, Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, (1508-12)

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The Fall from Paradise, Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, (1508-12)

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And the man and his wife were both naked and and they felt no shame.

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Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?” He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

Genesis 3:7

The Expulsion Of Adam and Eve from Eden, Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in

Firenze, Masaccio,

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Linen shirt - Egypt, 3000 BC -- JCrew 2010

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Armor of George Clifford , Third Earl of Cumberland,

ca. 1580

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"... fashion represents nothing more than one of the many forms of life by the aid of which we seek to combine in uniform spheres of activity the tendency towards social equalization with the desire for individual differentiation and change.”

“It is peculiarly characteristic of fashion that it renders possible a social obedience, which at the same time is a form of individual differentiation."

Georg Simmel, On Fashion, 1904

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Imitation Distinction

Heredity Individual Variation

Universality Particularity

Submission Sense of Power

Duration Mutability

Femininity Masculinity

Stillness Movement

Receptivity Productivity

Creation Destruction

"As fashion spreads, it gradually goes to its doom. The distinctiveness which in the early stages of a set fashion assures for it a certain distribution is destroyed as the fashion spreads, and as this element wanes, the fashion also is bound to die. (...) The attractions of both poles of the phenomena meet in fashion, and show also here that they belong together unconditionally, although, or rather because, they are contradictory in their very nature.”

Georg Simmel, On Fashion, 1904

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The 'Glasses Apostle' by Conrad von Soest, 1403

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pocket sundial, c. 1600

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Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence and Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574

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Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence and Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574

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Spinning Jenny, invented by James Hargreaves in 1764

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Inventor Edwin Armstrong gave this radio, said to the 'first portable radio' to his wife Marion in 1923, as a wedding gift. Photo credit: unknown

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Back to Fashion (and Technology)

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Diana Dew, Harper’s Bazaar, 1967

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Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, “Body Coverings”, 1968, - photo form Body Coverings catalogue

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Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, “Body Coverings”, 1968, - photo form Body Coverings catalogue

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Sony’s Walkman, 1979 “a technology for a generation that has nothing else to say”

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LA Gear Light Up Shoes, 1992

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MIT Wearable Computing Group, 1995

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MUSICAL JACKET, Maggie Orth, 1997

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Love Jackets, Despina Papadopoulos, 1997

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1999, Alexander Queen for Givenchy

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Alexander McQueen Spring Summer 1999

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Smart Shirt, Sensatex and Carnegie Mellon, 2003

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2006, Hussein Chalayan

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Zap Sandal, Jimmy Choo, 2010

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Nicholas Kirkwood for Rodarte, 2010

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Nicholas Kirkwood for Rodarte, 2010

Chanel, 2010

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Nicholas Kirkwood for Rodarte, 2010

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sensoria

under armour 39Om Signal

live athos

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http://www.leapfrog.com/en-us/products/leapband https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djn_b_S_5uY

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FlipBand

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DON’TS:

Glass-out. Glass was built for short bursts of information and interactions that allow you to quickly get back to doing the other things you love. If you find yourself staring off into the prism for long periods of time you’re probably looking pretty weird to the people around you. So don’t read War and Peace on Glass. Things like that are better done on bigger screens.

Rock Glass while doing high-impact sports. Glass is a piece of technology, so use common sense. Water skiing, bull riding or cage fighting with Glass are probably not good ideas.

Wear it and expect to be ignored. Let’s face it, you’re gonna get some questions. Be patient and explain that Glass has a lot of the same features as a mobile phone (camera, maps, email, etc.). Also, develop your own etiquette. If you’re worried about someone interrupting that romantic dinner at a nice restaurant with a question about Glass, just take it off and put it around the back of your neck or in your bag.

Be creepy or rude (aka, a “Glasshole”). Respect others' privacy and if they have questions about Glass don’t get snappy. Be polite and explain what Glass does and remember, a quick demo can go a long way. In places where cell phone cameras aren’t allowed, the same rules will apply to Glass. If you’re asked to turn your phone off, turn Glass off as well. Breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers.

https://sites.google.com/site/glasscomms/glass-explorers

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AND THEN THERE IS THIS:

Fashion Seasons VS Electronics Development

Safety Standards — it is not just clothing anymore

FDA: see “Like Kale, letting the FDA regulate wearables, is bitter but its good for you IFCC: international fire code council UL: underwriters laboratories, not-for profit organization testing for product safety CE: Conformite Europeenne, product has met EU consumer safety, health or environmental requirements RoHS: Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (related to Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive) ISO: International Organization for Standardization

Lack of Standards

Electronics Packages and volumes

Marketing the Invisible

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& TECHNOLOGY

THE HUMAN BODY

WEARING CLOTHES (FASHION?)

WHAT IS TO BE HUMAN - human centered design- behavioral change- being “better”

WHAT DO WE WANT TO SEE / HEAR / FEEL / BE

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SELF WEARABLE ENVIRONMENTS

SOCIAL

private

public

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SELF WEARABLE ENVIRONMENTS

SOCIAL

private

public

technology

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Vessyl

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