BIOFEEDBACK
Sompit Moi Fusakul’s Interactive Ornaments: Emotions in Motions
from : http://www.culturelab-uk.com
Vein 2 is a fibre optic necklace which changes colour as the wearer’s heartbeat increases to reflect their mood – blue indicates calm and red excitement. In order for it to work, the wearer has a jogger’s heart-rate monitor strapped to the chest. This sends a radio signal to a receiver and circuit board in the jewellery. A custom-made microchip counts the heartbeats and has been pre-programmed to command certain LEDs to light up in sequence.
Anemone is a shoulder piece, which wraps around the body. Light pulsates from flowers plated in Thai rose gold in rhythm with the beating heart. The third design, Aliform, meaning ‘a structure with wings’, consists of nine elliptical shapes cut from iridescent film. In response to five heartbeats, the elliptical shapes swell in sequence as instructed by the microchip embedded in the piece.
For Aliform, Moi used a ‘shape memory alloy’, a material that can remember shape once it has been trained by the microchip. British designer Hussein Chalayan’s Aeroplane Dress # 1, designed in 1998, uses the same shape memory alloy found in Aliform.
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a personal website for Sompit, but for more information see:
Beverly Tang’s entry in her blog
Meanwhile:
Lucy Dunne has been doing more than functional design lately
Her Intelligent Expressions four garments called “Pulse”, “Alert”, “Giggle”, and “Shapeshifter” respectively change visual properties based on physiological input.
And of course:
The Affective Computing Group’s Affective Jewelry (and other Affective Accessories)