We explore e-textiles and wearables. Our focus lies on the use of interactive costumes in dance performances. This interdisciplinary project depends on the cooperation between creative and technical development - students from Computer Science & Media, Human-Computer Interaction, Media Art & Design, and Product Design worked collaborative during the classes. They formed the whole process together in teams and developed individual costume solutions with DIY sensors or existing textile-able sensors. Finally, we tested the costumes with the ambitious dancers of the „Kinder- & Jugendballett Landestheater Altenburg“.

These are our three costumes:
- A knitted whole-body suit designed to wirelessly sonify dance movements via the seamless integration of conductive and resistive yarns.
- A cape that senses if another dancer or an object come closer, and simultaneously visualizes the different distances through glowing more or less.
- Another whole-body suit with textile-embedded pressure and stretch sensors that enhances movements by fluently lighting up different body parts.

The exhibition takes place within the OpenLab Night on:
Friday, July 15th 2016: 17.00 - 22.00
Saturday, July 16th 2016: 14.00 - 16.30

Photos by Tim Vischer & Hauke Sandhaus
© HCI Group