summaery2016: Projects
Interactive Costumes - Exploring/Selfmade Textile Sensors
Project information
Michaela Honauer
Co-AuthorsMarie Bornemann, Theresa Elstner, Lynn Hoff, Aline Martinez Santos, Evelyn Reuß, René Runow, Hauke Sandhaus, Franziska Spiller
MentorsMichaela Honauer, Eva Hornecker
Faculty / Section:
Media
Degree programme:
Product Design (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)),
Computer Science and Media (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Computer Science and Media (english) (Master of Science (M.Sc.)),
Media Art and Design -Study programme Media Art und Design (MAD) (english) (Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)),
Human-Computer Interaction (Master of Science (M.Sc.))
Research project
SemesterSummer semester 2016
Exhibition Location / Event Location- Bauhausstraße 11
https://www.uni-weimar.de/projek...
Contributors:
Kinder- & Jugendballett Landestheater Altenburg (http://www.tpthueringen.de/mitmachen/kinder-jugendballett.html)
Project description online
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
Email: michaela.honauer[at]uni-weimar.de