Making Sense of Wearables, ITP, NYU, Spring 2015, Class 01
https://itp.nyu.edu/classes/msw-spring2014/class-1-introduction/
Introduction to the course and review of the landscape over the past 15 years: what has worked, what has not, what are some of the recurring challenges that prevent wearable technologies and wearable environments from gaining mass adoption.
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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 Quali鍖ed Self
Seeing & Mediated Reality
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Hearing & Feeling / Touching
Wellbeing
Identity and the Quali鍖ed Self
Seeing & Mediated Reality
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Hearing & Feeling / Touching
Wellbeing
Identity and the Quali鍖ed Self
Seeing & Mediated Reality
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Hearing & Feeling / Touching
Fashion Dilemmas
Culture, Symbols & Gestures
Wellbeing
Intimacy and Communication
Identity and the Quali鍖ed Self
Seeing & Mediated Reality
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Hearing & Feeling / Touching
Fashion Dilemmas
Time, Space, Location & Distance
Wellbeing
Intimacy and Communication
Identity and the Quali鍖ed Self
Seeing & Mediated Reality
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Hearing & Feeling / Touching
Fashion Dilemmas
Culture, Symbols & Gestures
Time, Space, Location & Distance
Wellbeing
Intimacy and Communication
Identity and the Quali鍖ed Self
Seeing & Mediated Reality
10. 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 Quali鍖ed 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 Quali鍖ed 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 鍖g 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 '鍖rst 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, Harpers 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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Sonys 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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DONTS:
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 鍖nd yourself staring off into the prism for long periods of time youre probably looking pretty
weird to the people around you. So dont 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 鍖ghting with Glass are probably not good ideas.
Wear it and expect to be ignored. Lets face it, youre 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 youre
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 dont 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 arent allowed, the same rules will apply to Glass. If youre 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 鍖re code council
UL: underwriters laboratories, not-for pro鍖t 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
Who is the Consumer? What is the need?
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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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BODY
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SELF
WEARABLE ENVIRONMENTS
SOCIAL
private
public
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BODY
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SELF
WEARABLE ENVIRONMENTS
SOCIAL
private
public
technology
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Vessyl
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