Design of 'smart' fashion garments

I researched and designed ‘smart’ fashion garments incorporating new technologies and electronics in wearable computing. Deploying contextual workshop research into the potential future functionality of wearable computing in clothing and critical ideas in new media in the territory where art, science and technology meet on the body. The garments were designed for a context specific performance to incorporate input and output devices, wireless LAN activated responsive environments and combined, audio, video and choreography, textiles substrates as user-aware devices using sensors and responsive actuators to communicate digitally-mediated emotions and recognize signals and identity presence in the periphery of human awareness through biometric data, e.g body heat or voice recognition, or password identity. For example, I formulated and illustrated the Cinderella AIDD (Artificial Intelligence Dating Device.) The AIDD contains an RFID tag with the wearer's personal information and dating preferences, a wireless reader programmed to match-make data from others tags to use AI profiling to scope potential suitable partners. An alert is sent when promising suitors approach. The wearer can leave a smart "slipper card" behind with his or her new acquaintance. The card encrypts a data profile for use in romantic follow-up, including a GPS locator. This gizmo is indicative of my ongoing practice-based research into visualising fashion/science technologies