wearable tech design - week 1
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Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Wearable Technology in the Year e-textiles & Wearable Technologies from future tense to present
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Wearable Technology in the Year 2015
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Wearable Technology in the Year 2015
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
The 'Glasses Apostle' by Conrad von Soest, 1403
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, “Body Coverings”, 1968, - photo form Body Coverings catalogue
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Howard and Marion Armstrong in 1923 at the beach with the world’s first “portable” radio
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Studio 5050 / Principled Design, 2005
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Wearable Technology in the Year 2015
Growing Consumer Interest
Key Wearable Technology Markets, Sept. 9 2015, IDTechEx
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
…the wearable electronics business powers from $20 billion in 2015 to almost $70 billion in 2025
Key Wearable Technology Markets, Sept. 9 2015, IDTechEx
Wearable Electronics Market
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Wearable Technology in the Year 2015
IFAI’s market research manager Jeff Rasmussen says that the worldwide smart fabrics market is growing at an annual rate of about 18 percent from about $984 million in 2011 to a projected $1.9 billion in 2015.
Smart Fabrics Market Projections
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Limited consumer demand – Rapidly expanding demand for comfort and performance in apparel and footwear, growing demand for Internet of Things Applications
Limited range of technical materials – Expanding range of textiles with new material characteristics including conductive threads, phase-changing materials and stretchable electronics
Component cost and performance – Advances and drops in price for sensors and other electronic components including battery power
Past Market Barriers Rapidly Disappearing
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Paul Smith, A Suit to Travel In, 2015
Increased interest (and opportunity) in performance fabrics
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Increased interest (and opportunity) in performance fabrics
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Increased interest (and opportunity) in performance fabrics
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Coats metallized thread antenna on RFID tag
Conductive Threads
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Sensing Fabrics (under development)
Google’s Jacquard Project
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Sensing Fabrics (under development)
Google’s Jacquard Project
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Other materials (under development)
DuPont’s stretchable inks for wearable electronics
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Wearable Computing
mbient
The C series are low-cost sensors ideal for motion, location, and wearable applications.
This is the smallest platform and powers products the size of a button with sensors that temperature, pressure, accelerometer, gyro, magnetometer, and light sensors.
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
The price of an accelerometer in 2005/2006 was about $3.0 and today the price of an accelerometer with better performance and more embedded features (FIFO, temperature sensors, wake-up function, interrupt generator,…) has fallen considerably below $0.50 for high volumes.
Other Components
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Other materials (under development)
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Sensoria, Monitors your foot-landing technique as you run
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Monitors breathing as well their body position, sleeping temperature, activity level, and whether they’re asleep
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
The Unseen’s AIR collection, a series of handmade leather garments which respond to unseen changes in the environment
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Wearables & e-textiles Apparel
compelling applications
design
materials/supply chain
manufacturing
technology know-how
< strategy >
The Building Blocks
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
“Clothes will always outsell phones”- Dr. Michael Burrows, DuPont
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
The Jacquard Loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard, around 1801.
The binary principle embodied in the punched-card operation of the loom was inspiration for the data processing machines to come.
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
• Active Sportswear and Specialty Footwear
• Military and Uniform
• Health Care
• Older Adult Applications • Industrial and Enterprise Applications
• Social (Communication) and Expressive Applications • Other?
Applications - Industries
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
From Concept to Service: Wearable Technology Challenge for End-to-End Solutions
Twenty odd years trending and still we have few (if any) examples of truly integrated wearable technology examples that have reached market scalability. Most examples of wearable technology are akin to a “cottage-industry”– handmade, bespoke and expressive, more couture than ready-to-wear, reminiscent of the pre-industrial revolution methods of production for textiles and clothing.
The challenges we had 20 years ago remain largely the same despite growing market interest in the area. But with new developments in rapid prototyping and e-textiles we are in a much better place today to address some of the major roadblocks in taking wearable technologies to scale and disrupting the current manufacturing infrastructure.
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Timeline
Jan 25 Feb 1 Feb 8 Feb 22
Feb 29 Mar 7 Mar 21 Mar 28
Apr 4 Apr 11 Apr 18 Apr 25
concept development - design principles - requirements specifications
design prototype - iterations - materials finalized
production and documentation
prototype
make-up class 1-on-1s
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
1. Develop compelling use-cases and gathering requirements – identify applications, services and wearable environments that address human needs and an engagement model that goes beyond the much quoted 6-month drop-off rate for most existing wearable devices. How do we activate behavioural change, a need for delight and magic, or look at the needs of emergency responders, nurses, and chronically ill patients? Whether we design a wearable environment for dance performers, first responders or expectant mothers, our focus will be in designing a compelling system that addresses the needs of said user’s need and environment and goes beyond single use scenarios.
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Timeline
Jan 25 Feb 1 Feb 8
concept development - design principles - requirements
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
2. Turn requirements to design and technology specifications – having identified a target audience and their needs, we will work to select existing technologies and solutions and specify how our wearable solutions addresses each requirement, making sure that intention, design and creative vision are retained in specifications.
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Timeline
Jan 25 Feb 1 Feb 8 Feb 22
concept development - design principles - requirements specifications
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
3. Experiment with solutions for with an eye to manufacturability and scale – we will look at existing manufacturing processes and come up with solutions that can be adapted to manufacturing or crate solutions that do not yet exist. Experimentation and rapid prototyping will be the focus of this phase while we develop design guidelines and development specs.
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Timeline
Jan 25 Feb 1 Feb 8 Feb 22
Feb 29 Mar 7 Mar 21 Mar 28
concept development - design principles - requirements specifications
design prototype - iterations - materials finalized prototype
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
4. Develop a final prototype and production plan – at this stage we will build a robust prototype that addresses production needs and outlines how we will source and take prototypes to scalable products.
We will do these with an eye to integration and scalability and with placing special emphasis on design and rapid, iterative prototyping. Visiting guests will provide context on processes in the apparel and footwear industry as well as updates on emerging solutions in e-textiles and conductive yarn developments.
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Timeline
Jan 25 Feb 1 Feb 8 Feb 22
Feb 29 Mar 7 Mar 21 Mar 28
Apr 4 Apr 11 Apr 18 Apr 25
concept development - design principles - requirements specifications
design prototype - iterations - materials finalized
production and documentation
prototype
make-up class 1-on-1s
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Timeline
Feb 1
WHO WHAT WHEN (HOW) WHY
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Basic Requirements
- Who is it for? (detailed user profile)
- What conditions does it need to respond to?
- How is it to be worn?
- What is the MVP (minimum viable product)?
- What is the eco-system of use?
- What would be the cost that could justified added technology/comfort?
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Assignment(s)
Weave a circuitTrack a favorite garment
Create a mood/inspiration board
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
Readings
http://www.textileworld.com/textile-world/features/2010/04/e-textiles-for-wearability-review-of-integration-technologies/
https://aeon.co/essays/how-textiles-repeatedly-revolutionised-human-technology
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
And Finally …
Class Participation: 30%
Readings / Weekly Assignments: 40%
Final Project: 30%
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
And Finally …
Class Participation: 30%
Readings / Weekly Assignments: 40%
Final Project: 30%
be on time
communicate issues
no computers / cell phones in class
Despina Papadopoulos Wearable Tech Design - Spring 2016 ITP / NYU
thank you
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