Craft qualities translated from traditional crafts to smart textile services

In this article we suggest craft and craftsmanship as an inspiration to design more sustainable smart textile services. We look into the opportunities that interactive properties and services bring into the textile and garment life cycle. We use traditional\u3cbr/\u3ecrafts as a source of inspiration for the design and as a reference to analyse emerged smart textile examples with craft experts. We demonstrate the process in the form of a dialogue between the smart textile as material, the designer-researcher and the community of craft experts. The Research through Design activities result in three iterations of the smart textile proposal, suggesting Augmented Reality as an extra layer on the textile material, and a set of design guidelines as craft qualities. We demonstrate two versions of craft qualities found and evaluated in the Muhu skirt as a traditional folk garment, as well as ‘QR-coded Embroidery’, ‘Bedtime Stories’ and ‘Textales’ as smart textile exam ples. The story of defining, evaluating and reflecting on the act of designing as the generator of knowledge illustrates how the community becomes part of the Research through Design process

Smart textiles products and services in sustainable context

Smart textile products present a bigger risk for the environmental sustainability than most other textile products. However, smart textile products also offer opportunities for the development of unique services that would generate additional value and sustain meaning in a societal and economic context. In this article we describe our designs for three smart textile products with a different level of integration of textiles and technology and different use case scenarios. These designs were interpreted by sustainability experts and analyzed along the lines of environmental, societal and economic sustainability. We present these multiple viewpoints and our own re-interpretation of the three designs by focusing on the energy use, story telling and personalization as the main opportunities for the development of sustainable smart textile services. With this paper we contribute by identifying a meaningful direction for the future development of smart textile products where the challenges of sustainability act as opportunities for the development of smart textile service

Textile-based augmented reality systems and methods

This disclosure relates generally to augmented reality, and more particularly to augmented reality systems and methods using textiles. In one embodiment, a processor-implemented textile-based augmented reality method is disclosed. The method may comprise capturing, via one or more hardware processors, a video frame including a depiction of an aperiodic marker included in an ornamental design of a textile fabric. Via the one or more hardware processors, the presence of the marker may be identified using one or more image-processing marker detection techniques. The identified marker may be associated with one or more audio-visual content files. Finally, data from the one or more audio-visual content files may be displayed as part of an augmented reality presentation

Совершенствование организации труда руководителей и специалистов предприятия (на примере Гомельской областной организации Белорусского Общества Красного Креста)

Smart textiles with its vast range of possibilities provide a considerable opportunity. for societal sustainability for the waste-oriented fashion industry. May the new textdes react to the environment, wearer, have a mind of its own or simply provoke and inspire people -it is a great tooi for the transition from the product-oriented industry to the service-minded economy. Fashion field needs to mature and adapt to the new rules set by the user within today's environment. While developing the new field of smart textiles, th is paper stresses the importance of learning from traditional crafts and the value of craftsmanship. We start by introducing the importance of crafting and connecting it to the industrialized way of producing. Then, we ask whether we could merge valuable Inslghts from both in order to develop the smart textiles area . Later, you will find an example project merging Quick Response (QR) codes with traditional embroidery that inspired a set of TechCrafts explorations in a form of student proJects. In case of the embroldered QR codes, the link to technology is an add-on feature to textiles. In the otherexamples, craftsmanship technologies are used to create the textile substrate ItselL These explorations are the input for a discussion about the role of craftsmanshlp and skdls In . developing materials with inter

Designing Smart Textile Services through value networks, team mental models and shared ownership

The goal of Smart Textile Services is to integrate existing knowledge from the separate domains of textile (soft materials), technology and services. As no single actor can meaningfully understand and realize the creation of Product Service Systems multiple actors need to team up with relevant partners. The contribution of this paper is to describe the initiation of a bottom-up approach aiming to co-design Smart Textile Services in collaboration with partners from the Dutch textile and technology industry, service providers, creative hubs and academic institutes. The concepts of value networks, team mental models and shared ownership are used to design and analyse two co-design workshops that took place within the consortium: a co-reflection and a co-creation workshop. We will use the same concepts to reflect on how a bottom-up approach can be used for designing Smart Textile Services, and how a designer can contribute to this process. Further, we will indicate how we are planning to pursue this bottom-up approach in future research

Day in the lab : wearable senses, Department of Industrial Design, TU Eindhoven

Wearable Senses (WS) focuses on designing close-to- the-body interactions, specifically designs that incorporate wearable computing or smart textiles. It is a community that feels like an emerging multidisciplinary culture, where practitioners from research, education, and industry help and challenge each other on a continual basis