Joanna Berzowska
Marcelo Coelho
ABSTRACT
This paper describes SMOKS, a pair of electronically enhanced suits that acts as an experimental platform for constructing individual and collective memories, for creating and nurturing social networks, and for personal communication and intimacy.The suits combine and overlay different interaction methodologies explored in our larger research project called Memory Rich Clothing. Moreover, rather than deploying a single social electronic artifact, we created garments in pairs, balancing the interaction affordances between users and creating conditions for the emergence of playful social networks surrounding the body.By capturing physical memories, representing traces of human touch, recording and playing sounds, and by providing hiding places for physical mementoes, the SMOKS use fashion and our interactions through clothing to accumulate and display traces of physical memory in personal and playful ways.
- Berzowska, J. Electronic Textiles: Wearable Computers, Reactive Fashion, and Soft Computation, Textile, Berg Publishers, London, 2005, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 2--19.Google Scholar
- Berzowska, J. Memory Rich Clothing: Second Skins that Communicate Physical Memory, Proceedings of the 5th conference on Creativity & Cognition, ACM Press, New York (2005) 32 -- 40. Google ScholarDigital Library
- E.R. Post, M.Orth, P.R. Russo, N. Gershenfeld, E-broidery Design and fabrication of textile-based computing, IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 39, 2000. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- SMOKS: the memory suits
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