Smart Experience in Fashion Design: A Speculative Analysis of Smart Material Systems Applications

A Smart Material Interfaces Learning Experience

This paper describes a learning experience held with a class of primary school children who were introduced to a novel class of resources, named smart materials, and the interfaces built with them (Smart Material Interfaces). The pupils were guided along a multidisciplinary educational path in which traditional and innovative teaching methods were composed for educating while engaging the child...

Smart Card Applications Smart Card Applications Design Models for using and programming smart cards

Smart Applications for Smart Live

Electronic services and applications of informatics has become a new way of life and interaction between individuals and government. The blending of technology with human resources has led to the emergence of a smart life moving, at an accelerated pace and easily in the style and form, that characterized by the ease, speed and accuracy in the delivery of public services and do business. This pa...

Smart Material Interfaces: A Vision

In this paper, we introduce a vision called Smart Material Interfaces (SMIs), which takes advantage of the latest generation of engineered materials that has a special property defined “smart”. They are capable of changing their physical properties, such as shape, size and color, and can be controlled by using certain stimuli (light, potential difference, temperature and so on). We describe SMI...

Smart Textiles and Wearable Technology – A study of smart textiles in fashion and clothing

2 Foreword This report is the result of a study of the research field smart textiles, which has been carried out within the EU financed Baltic Fashion Project. The report gives an overview of projects combining smart textiles and clothing as a basis of discussions of how smart textile innovation could be introduced in fashion. The overview covers different projects, research as well as commerci...