Interactive wearables
Smarterwear Heated Jacket
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The Smarterwear Heated Jacket is a personal heating device with a lightweight lining. The lining itself uses an Arduino lilypad to detect the user's body temperature, heating when needed and automatically shutting down when the user is warm. This makes the Smarterwear Heated Jacket ideal for outdoor exercise in cold weather, individuals with poor circulation, when running errands in downtown Vancouver to eliminate the need for constantly removing your jacket when the environment's or user's body heat fluctuates.
Body Space
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Body Space is a reflection on the space our bodies occupy. Posture and movement are impeded by fragile cloth barriers, vision is obscured by the textile ceiling. Relative to the spaces we interact with daily in the city, this space is hostile, even though the material is innocuous. Within Body Space our physical limitations are brought to the forefront, and we notice our own vulnerability.
Body Space was an installation on Granville Island in 2011.
Interactive wearable - Bicycle signal
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In this design, I came up an idea of adding LED lights at the back of cyclists and they are able to control whether lighting up the left turn signal or right turn signal with their fingers. Moreover, the LED lights will turn into a solid red light when the cyclist starts to slow down into a complete stop. As the cyclist start to move, the LED lights will turn from solid red into green. These aspects are controlled by the accelerate-monitor that engages on the lilypad and coded with the Arduino system. In addition, I made the LED light to be attachable to any kinds or clothing surface by using Velcro; or even attachable to backpacks. This is another convenient aspect of this design.
Detectair
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An interactive wearable that gives haptic and visual feedback to its user by responding to airborne toxins (Alcohol, Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide, Benzene).
Using switch case programming, the vest can respond appropriately to various conditions - ambient, urban, dirty and toxic.
Slow ebbing and flowing of the LED chest array indicate that the environment is habitable whereas a fast paced 'breathing pattern' and buzzing from cell phone vibrators placed over the lungs inidcate a presence of danger.
This project intends to humanize numerical data and sensors currently being used primarily for industrial purposes in order to bring environmental conversation to the foreground.
