Mannequette: Understanding and enabling collaboration and creativity on avant-garde fashion-tech runways
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Publication Date
6-2019
Abstract
Drawing upon multiple disciplines, avant-garde fashion-tech teams push the boundaries between fashion and technology. Many are well trained in envisioning aesthetic qualities of garments, but few have formal training on designing and fabricating technologies themselves. We introduce Mannequette, a prototyping tool for fashion-tech garments that enables teams to experiment with interactive technologies at early stages of their design processes. Mannequette provides an abstraction of light-based outputs and sensor-based inputs for garments through a DJ mixer-like interface that allows for dynamic changes and recording/playback of visual effects. The base of Mannequette can also be incorporated into the final garment, where it is then connected to the final components. We conducted an 8-week deployment study with eight design teams who created new garments for a runway show. Our results revealed Mannequette allowed teams to repeatedly consider new design and technical options early in their creative processes, and to communicate more effectively across disciplinary backgrounds.
Keywords
Avant-garde, Fashion-tec, Haute couture, Wearables
Discipline
Information Security
Research Areas
Information Systems and Management
Publication
Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference, San Diego, United States, June 23 - 28
First Page
317
Last Page
329
ISBN
9781450358507
Identifier
10.1145/3322276.3322305
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
City or Country
New York
Citation
SEYED, Teddy and TANG, Anthony.
Mannequette: Understanding and enabling collaboration and creativity on avant-garde fashion-tech runways. (2019). Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference, San Diego, United States, June 23 - 28. 317-329.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7914
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322305