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Designing for Smart Clothes and Wearables—User Experience Design Perspective

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Due to the recent years’ advances in prototyping techniques, flexible electronics, and component miniaturization, research has emerged to explore novel concepts and functionalities for wearable computing. So far, the attention has been mostly toward technical rather than user experience studies, seeking to illustrate novel and proof-of-concept-level functional prototypes. In this chapter, wearable computing is approached from the user experience (UX) design point of view. The principles of UX design are discussed with respect to the area of designing smart clothes and accessories, and three examples of concept designs, focusing on young athletes, a solar powered coat design, and a smart handbag design, are presented.

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Acknowledgements

The work presented in this chapter has involved several students, designers, and researchers working under the author’s supervision. For the Case I, ice-hockey gear, I want to thank Mira Alhonsuo, Lasse Virtanen, and Juho Rantakari. For Case II, the solar cell coat design, I want to acknowledge students in my interaction design course in winter 2016, Paula Roinesalo for her design of the final prototype and Anu Kylmänen for the supervision from the clothing design perspective. For the interactive handbag concept, I wish to acknowledge Lasse Virtanen for the concept visualization; Ashley Colley for the technical implementation; and Minna Pakanen, Saara Koskinen, Kirsi Mikkonen, and Tuomas Lappalainen for the user study. This research has been supported by a grant from Tekes—the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation as part of ’The Naked Approach—Nordic perspective to gadget-free hyperconnected environments’ programme.

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Häkkilä, J. (2017). Designing for Smart Clothes and Wearables—User Experience Design Perspective. In: Schneegass, S., Amft, O. (eds) Smart Textiles. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50124-6_12

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