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The shoe is capable to sense the activity level and can adjust according to the wearer’s movements.
The shoe can be wireless linked to a computer or other shoes of the same type. This is performed
through an embedded computer in the sole that learns individual movement patterns and adjusts the
shoe accordingly. This computer also allows for wireless data storage and information sharing [121].
Alexandra Fede designed and produced a dress that massages the wearer periodically, the so-called
JoyDress. She introduced a prototype at the Avantex International Innovation Forum and Symposium
in Frankfurt in 2002 where she won the prize for innovation in fashion engineering.
Fig. 57 JoyDress prototype [122]
The fabric, illustrated in Fig. 54, contains a series of vibrapads, which are energized by en electronic
control unit that enables timing and strength to be pre-planned. The prototype dress has the vibrating
pads sewn on the fabric [122].
Lisa Stead, also working at the Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design, aims also to connect
fashion aesthetics with materials science and electronics in order to provide reactive emotional
aesthetics and interactive personalisation for the wearer. Hence, she designed the Emotional
Wardrobe, a collection of worn and unworn garments that represent and stimulate emotional
response. The worn garment responds to the wearer via body sensors, translating an inferred change
in emotional state with a change in the garment aesthetics. LEDs create various patterns of colour,
which glow from behind contours in the dress. The rhythmic patterns associated with music and
emotion and could be used to improve self-awareness of moods or enhance and explore social
interaction and self-expression. This concept could also encourage interaction between the wearer
and society. Therefore she used for instance sensors that measure body signals such as galvanic skin
response, which are transferred wirelessly from the dress to the AffectiveWare platform. The platform
contains personal ‘emotional’ data from the wearer, collected from a series of emotional testing
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