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Computational Technologies for Fashion Recommendation: A Survey
Fashion recommendation is a key research field in computational fashion
research and has attracted considerable interest in the computer vision,
multimedia, and information retrieval communities in recent years. Due to the
great demand for applications, various fashion recommendation tasks, such as
personalized fashion product recommendation, complementary (mix-and-match)
recommendation, and outfit recommendation, have been posed and explored in the
literature. The continuing research attention and advances impel us to look
back and in-depth into the field for a better understanding. In this paper, we
comprehensively review recent research efforts on fashion recommendation from a
technological perspective. We first introduce fashion recommendation at a macro
level and analyse its characteristics and differences with general
recommendation tasks. We then clearly categorize different fashion
recommendation efforts into several sub-tasks and focus on each sub-task in
terms of its problem formulation, research focus, state-of-the-art methods, and
limitations. We also summarize the datasets proposed in the literature for use
in fashion recommendation studies to give readers a brief illustration.
Finally, we discuss several promising directions for future research in this
field. Overall, this survey systematically reviews the development of fashion
recommendation research. It also discusses the current limitations and gaps
between academic research and the real needs of the fashion industry. In the
process, we offer a deep insight into how the fashion industry could benefit
from fashion recommendation technologies. the computational technologies of
fashion recommendation
Computational Aesthetics for Fashion
The online fashion industry is growing fast and with it, the need for advanced systems able to automatically solve different tasks in an accurate way. With the rapid advance of digital technologies, Deep Learning has played an important role in Computational Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary area that tries to bridge fine art, design, and computer science. Specifically, Computational Aesthetics aims to automatize human aesthetic judgments with computational methods. In this thesis, we focus on three applications of computer vision in fashion, and we discuss how Computational Aesthetics helps solve them accurately
Design requirements for female boomer activewear: A sequential exploratory mixed methods study
The emerging phenomena of active aging brought new challenges for professionals to respond to female boomers’ demands on special needs for fit and styling of activewear. Since this market is not well understood, a holistic research that integrates both consumer behavior and product development is needed. Thus, this study explored and analyzed design requirements for female boomer activewear for indoor fitness through a sequential exploratory mixed methods research. This method consists of three phases that begins with the collection and analysis of qualitative data and builds from the qualitative results to a quantitative phase.
In the first phase, 15 in-depth interviews were conducted to explore female boomers’ functional, expressive, and aesthetic (FEA) needs based on FEA Consumer Needs Model (Lamb & Kallal, 1992). In the second phase, themes and preferences found in the first phase were translated into garment engineering details in terms of design features and textile properties: interaction matrix and design problem-approach analysis were conducted. The fit issues were addressed by comparing two parametric avatars of missy and female boomer figures and the data were further transferred to visual representations by 3D virtual prototyping. In the third phase, online survey was conducted where 321 female boomers across the United States evaluated the developed 3D prototypes. Specifically, FEA attributes of the activewear were evaluated and the relationship between FEA needs and wearing intention were examined.
The results of the 3D virtual comparisons showed that there is difference in body shapes between the female boomer and missy figures that influence design requirements. Based on the results, this study proposed a conceptual model that illustrates the interrelationships of factors influencing design requirements for female boomer activewear including aging factors, FEA dimensions, and wearing intention. The findings of the final evaluation phase along with the model testing confirm the importance of all three FEA dimensions and indicate that the proposed virtual prototypes meet the needs of female boomers that have positively effects on wearing intention.
This present study has both theoretical and practical implications and contributes to the growing body of research on examining female boomers as a vital consumer sector in the apparel industry. The present study confirms the appropriateness of the extended FEA model and further validates the efficacy of the model in explaining female boomers needs and preferences on activewear. It also brings increased conceptual clarity to the concepts of age appropriateness and further confirms the applicability of using mixed methods research in the discipline of textiles and clothing. Lastly, the findings of this study have practical implications for product developers and retailers on product development and commercialization strategies for female boomer consumers
An aesthetic for sustainable interactions in product-service systems?
Copyright @ 2012 Greenleaf PublishingEco-efficient Product-Service System (PSS) innovations represent a promising approach to sustainability. However the application of this concept is still very limited because its implementation and diffusion is hindered by several barriers (cultural, corporate and regulative ones). The paper investigates the barriers that affect the attractiveness and acceptation of eco-efficient PSS alternatives, and opens the debate on the aesthetic of eco-efficient PSS, and the way in which aesthetic could enhance some specific inner qualities of this kinds of innovations. Integrating insights from semiotics, the paper outlines some first research hypothesis on how the aesthetic elements of an eco-efficient PSS could facilitate user attraction, acceptation and satisfaction
Online fashion shopping experiences, web atmospherics and consumer's emotions
This thesis was previously held under moratorium from 1st December 2016 until 1st December 2021.The notion of ‘experience’ marks a shift in consumer research from focusing on the
rational consumer to focusing on emotions (Holbrook & Hirschman, 1982). This
research studies consumer experiences in the specific context of online fashion
shopping. It contributes to the field of atmospherics and consumption emotions and
experiences, thus bridging a gap that has been highlighted in the literature (e.g.
Turley & Milliman, 2000). This thesis aims to study the online fashion-shopping
experience as the consumer lives and constructs it. The research conducted two
studies that are underpinned by the philosophical stance of pragmatism.
First, Kelly’s (1955) personal construct theory (PCT) is adopted to gain an in-depth
understanding of consumers’ shopping experience using their own words and
construction. The study conducted 25 repertory grid interviews, analysed first with
Jankowicz’s (2005) method of initial eyeball and process analyses. Next, following
Lemke, Clark, and Wilson (2011), qualitative construct coding was performed by
multi-coders for inter-reliability checks.
This study contributes to our understanding of the online fashion-shopping
experience by (1) introducing the construction of the experience as emotional,
perceptual, situational and behavioural, (2) highlighting how individuality in such
experiences often changes the meaning of such constructs, and (3) arguing that
situational constructs provide a context that shapes the whole experience.
Second, screencast videography is introduced as a novel method that captures the
shoppers’ live experiences. Critical incident analysis of ten videos allowed the
experience journey to be mapped, highlighting the main critical incidents and the
contexts (e.g. purposeful vs. purposeless browsing) that shape the experience.
In addition to its methodological contribution, this study provides great insights into
an otherwise unobservable phenomenon. Furthermore, it presents the ‘fashionscape’
as a concept tailored especially to understanding the online fashion-shopping
environment in its visual, verbal, social and educational dimensions.The notion of ‘experience’ marks a shift in consumer research from focusing on the
rational consumer to focusing on emotions (Holbrook & Hirschman, 1982). This
research studies consumer experiences in the specific context of online fashion
shopping. It contributes to the field of atmospherics and consumption emotions and
experiences, thus bridging a gap that has been highlighted in the literature (e.g.
Turley & Milliman, 2000). This thesis aims to study the online fashion-shopping
experience as the consumer lives and constructs it. The research conducted two
studies that are underpinned by the philosophical stance of pragmatism.
First, Kelly’s (1955) personal construct theory (PCT) is adopted to gain an in-depth
understanding of consumers’ shopping experience using their own words and
construction. The study conducted 25 repertory grid interviews, analysed first with
Jankowicz’s (2005) method of initial eyeball and process analyses. Next, following
Lemke, Clark, and Wilson (2011), qualitative construct coding was performed by
multi-coders for inter-reliability checks.
This study contributes to our understanding of the online fashion-shopping
experience by (1) introducing the construction of the experience as emotional,
perceptual, situational and behavioural, (2) highlighting how individuality in such
experiences often changes the meaning of such constructs, and (3) arguing that
situational constructs provide a context that shapes the whole experience.
Second, screencast videography is introduced as a novel method that captures the
shoppers’ live experiences. Critical incident analysis of ten videos allowed the
experience journey to be mapped, highlighting the main critical incidents and the
contexts (e.g. purposeful vs. purposeless browsing) that shape the experience.
In addition to its methodological contribution, this study provides great insights into
an otherwise unobservable phenomenon. Furthermore, it presents the ‘fashionscape’
as a concept tailored especially to understanding the online fashion-shopping
environment in its visual, verbal, social and educational dimensions
Be(com)ing Arab in London: performativity between structures of subjection
This thesis is based upon eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in London
undertaken between January 2006 and July 2007. It explores the discourses and
practices which (re)produce notions of gender, race, ethnicity and class among young
people born or raised in London to migrants from Arab states. Instead of taking the
existence of an Arab community’ in London as self-evident, this thesis looks critically
at the idea of Arab-ness in London and the ways in which it is signified, reiterated and
recited. Taking the theorising of performative gender as a starting point I explore the
possibilities of a sequential reading of ‘gender’ and ‘race’ and the practices and
discourses which produce that which they name ‘Arab woman,’ Arab man,’ ‘British-
Arab’. By looking at discourses, practices and political context, ‘ethnicity’ and ‘race’
appear to be less about an inner fixity or even multiple identities, instead they can be
significantly attributed to a discursive and corporeal project of survival and social
intelligibility between structures of subjection which create imperatives to enact and
reproduce notions of ‘race’ and ‘gender’. In this sense it is no longer satisfactory to see
ethnicity as something that one possesses – but something that one does and embodies
imperfectly, constantly adding, reinforcing and disrupting its presumed structure.
Looking at what it means “to do” Arab-ness in London provides opportunities to
look at the underlying normative and psychical structures that inform the doing of
ethnicity in a particular setting. The shift from foundationalist and “epistemological
account[s] of identity to [those] which locate[s] the problematic within practices of
signification permits an analysis that takes the epistemological mode itself as one
possible and contingent signifying practice” (Butler 1990: 184). Through the Shisha
cafe, ‘Arabic nights’, images and narratives I explore the discursive and corporeal acts
that signify Arab-ness in London at a particular historical moment
Atlas of sensations - on sensibilities in a computational design practice
The driving force behind the body of work of SPAN is defined by the application of advanced computational design methodologies. This dissertation can be understood as a cartography (in the best tradition of an atlas) of the work of the practice from its founding year 2003 until 2017 - a period profoundly shaped by the progress made in technological advances. These technological means allow SPAN to discuss architectural project through a series of different lenses such as conceptualization, planning, fabrication to the maintenance of the designed objects, through the use of emerging technical opportunities wither this be the interrogation of novel geometries (Blocks, Ore, Barcelona Recursion), computational methods of rationalization (Expo Façade) or advanced methods of fabrication (Robots, as for example in Plato's Columns). In a parallel move between the necessities and desires of the practice and the ambitious studios and seminars in academia, novel toolsets and design concepts are developed to address contemporary architectural problems. These areas can be understood as different territories of interrogation, forming a landscape of opportunities, or as we describe it internally in our office: a design ecology. The interrogation of these distinct territories, and the unique way in which SPAN assembles those various elements to something larger than its parts, is what constitutes part of SPAN's contribution to the discipline. Apart from projects and visual work, SPAN´s contribution to discourse started early with papers to conferences such as IASS (International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures) in 2007, Design Modeling Symposium in 2008, and ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) in 2008, which included ideas such as the application of tissue engineering in architecture, aspects of artifact and affect, fabrication, and considerations on architectural details in complex curved geometries. Within the Atlas of Sensations, a second ecology is defined by the contribution to the paradigm shift in the discourse from the continuous to the hyper-articulated surface, which contains an additional level of information. A surface, which describes architectural properties through the deep pochés, folds, joints, niches, and arches it generates.  The question is: How does this shift in the conception of architecture affect the qualities of the design, and by extension the context these objects construct? To further investigate this question the work focuses on one part of the practice's design ecology: design sensibilities. In order to interrogate this question, the presented work observes these moments in SPAN's practice through the lens of geometrical properties. Ultimately resulting in thoughts on Postdigital design ecologies that discuss aspects of design agency in our contemporary age
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