Reactivewear: Coining the Future of Fashion

At the intersection of smart clothing, wearable computing, ubiquitous computing and human-computer interaction, is a realm of interesting projects in an emerging field that needs a good name. These garments and accessories translate data into evocative and/or functional displays, and thus make manifest the wearer’s emotions, physiology, ambient conditions, or any information that the wearer or their environment might express. There are many interesting examples of such experimental wearable systems, that process input from body-based or environmental sensors or aggregate information from networked devices to drive diverse types of output– light, sound, tactile, kinetic. While generally categorized in the broader fields above, there has been no one term that describes this sub-field in particular. Isa has proposed the term “reactivewear” and hopes that it sticks.

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