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Interaction Studies
Vol. 21:2 (2020) ► pp.200–219

Designing for wearable and fashionable interactions

Exploring narrative design and cultural semantics for design anthropology

| Chang Gung University
| National Taiwan University of Arts Taipei

This research examines wearable, fashionable interaction design to mediate the narrative and semiotic concepts found in technology and fashion. We discuss the principles of design anthropology using Taiwan proverbs to transmit the “people-situation-reason-object” method and analyze five case studies that provide new approaches for designers engaged in future industry. Design anthropology attempts to engage physiological and psychological design through technological function, meaning formation, and fashion aesthetics to achieve cognition between people and the environment. The wearable, fashionable interaction displays characteristics of narrative and semantics transmitted through craft culture as well as collective, cheerful, and creative performance. It is a confident and innovative attempt, which bears a joyful and fundamental interface. This study takes two directions, with cultural thinking serving as the basis to establish a set of traditional craft designs and interactive objects that assist designers in using the senses to inform and initiate new lifestyle values.

Keywords: design anthropology, wearable and fashionable design, proverbs culture application, product design, design practice
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Wearable and fashionable interactions
    • 1.2Wearable computing
    • 1.3Fashionable technology
  • 2.Wearable and fashionable interactions produced by narrative design and cultural semantics
    • 2.1Wearable and fashionable interactions product design in narrative design
    • 2.2Function application of narrative design in design of wearable and fashionable interactions
  • 3.Design case studies
    • 3.1Form application of cultural semantics in design of wearable and fashionable interactions
    • 3.2Implications from design anthropology for model thinking
  • 4.Model of wearable and fashionable interactions product design
    • 4.1Design derived from the inner and outer design anthropology values
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
Published online: 20 May 2020
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