In the context of expert systems technologies and human computer interaction, the goal of this project is to construct an interactive design support to fashion designers when designing workwear or corporatewear clothes. This system will be fed by a semantic database that describes the relations between function and clothes specific context of use under the user’s perspective. This application w...

A major drawback of shopping for clothes on-line is that the customer cannot try on clothes and see if they fit or suit them. One solution is to display clothing on an avatar, a 3D graphical model of the customer. However the normal technique for modeling clothing in computer graphics, cloth dynamics, suffers from being too processor intensive and is not practical for real time applications. He...

abstract since ancient time clothes has been integrated into human life, though this is the 1960s and after when clothes have been described as an artistic concept. nowadays, clothes in addition to their traditional functions including protection, coverage and beauty have found communicative function as well. since 1960s, artists have benefited from such a powerful tool presenting their desired...

Th e aim of this paper is to analyse Croatian adolescents’ clothing buying motives and their retail store selection criteria. Th e paper examined their preferences, attitudes and behaviours when buying clothes whether adolescents with diff erent primary clothing motives would have similar or diff erent store selection criteria. Also, the paper determined how today’s adolescents spend money on c...

BACKGROUND Hypersensitivity of the central nervous system is widely present in pain patients and recognized as one of the determinants of chronic pain and disability. Electronic pressure algometry is often used to explore aspects of central hypersensitivity. We hypothesized that a simple pain provocation test with a clothes peg provides information on pain sensitivity that compares meaningfully...

Clothes and accessories function as communication signs. The functions of relevant phenomena appearing in our daily life are classified according to their meanings as communication signs. The makeup, body painting, artificial deformation, modification (for example, tattoo or cut) and such kinds of decoration on the bodies are included in accessories. While the clothes and accessories have other...

A population of stems cells continuously rejuvenates the outer surface of a human parasitic flatworm.