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

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322305

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