Sunday, December 14, 2008

Color changing clothes as a form of new media

Part of the work that my research on Huggy Pajama system involves is the changing of color on clothes. The idea is that the wearable clothes can be used as a form of new media, and become an information display / exchange interface. Color changing can also convey a more emotional feedback to whoever is viewing it, and be a form of emotional expression interface.

The video below shows the current prototype of color changing based on thermal heating and cooling control system.


Tuesday, November 11, 2008

dissappointment

Another year's chance has passed, and another opportunity gone. I was working hard on a paper for my research project to be submitted to CHI 2009. It's the top conference for the area of my work. So this time around, we worked with a psychologist to design an experiment grounded in psychological theories.

However, the reviews received are not promising. Though the actual paper acceptance results are not out till early December, it is as good as NIL chance now. Not that the topic of the paper was not interesting, in fact the reviewers find the topic "lovely!". Alas, it is , in my opinion a matter of presentation and clarity. We did not make clear certain accepted standards taken from psychology to be presented to the HCI community. And this has caused confusion and lack of understanding on the design of the experiment.

well, certainly an acceptance into this conference would go a long way in supporting the case for my Phd thesis topic. Without it, it means i have to work harder in the coming year to try out for next year's conference. Any way, i have not given up and the lessons learned this time around will be used wisely.