Welcome | sugru | Hack Things Better. News. Publicity:: The Wearable Absence project by Professor Janis Jefferies of Goldsmiths Department of Computing together with Barbara Layne from Concordia University in Canada has been featured on the BBC website. The Wearable Absence project (a system of wearable devices known as'intelligent textiles'), developed by two teams of researchers led byProfessor Barbara Layne of Concordia University, and Professor JanisJefferies at Goldsmiths, University of London, U.K., has received nationaland international coverage over the last few days.
The project wasshowcased last week at the FOFA Gallery as part of Congress 2010. Mediacoverage of this project has appeared in print, on TV and on the webworldwide in countries ranging from the UK, to India, Germany, France andEgypt, and media outlets such as the BBC, NBC, FOX News, Medical News Today and Science News. The following website has full details of the project Inventerspot news: Wearable Absence: New Fine Arts Research Unveiled - Faculty of Fine Arts - Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Innovative research reawakens human memories through intelligent textiles As part of the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, two teams of researchers led by Professor Barbara Layne of Concordia University, Montreal, and Professor Janis Jefferies at Goldsmiths, University of London, U.K., have brought research in intelligent textiles to a new level.
The research teams have developed a highly sophisticated concept of interactive clothing whereby the body's physical and emotional state triggers the transfer of personalized memory back to the wearer. The project, titled Wearable Absence, uses a system of wearable devices never before seen in the expanding field of intelligent textiles. Wireless sensors and bio-sensing devices are embedded into garments that record the wearer's temperature, heart rate, galvanic skin response (moisture) and rate of respiration. The data is sent via the Internet to a sophisticated database which in turns sends back messages to the clothing. SubTela Home. WEARABLE ABSENCE - Research.