Wearable Futures - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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Calendar Event: March 14, 2005

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - contact hannah.topping@newport.ac.uk

Wearable Futures: Hybrid Culture in the Design and Development of Soft Technology

An Event organised by Smart Clothes Wearable Technology Research Group, University of Wales, Newport and PDR, University of Wales Institute Cardiff in association with SCAN (Southern Collaborative Arts Network)

14 - 16 September 2005, University of Wales, Newport, WALES, UK

Deadline for Abstracts: 14th March 2005

This two day International conference will aim to contextualise the future potential of Wearable Technologies in a variety of fields ranging from military application to fine art.

Wearable Futures is an interdisciplinary conference, which aims to bring together practitioners, inventors, and theorists in the field of soft technology and wearables including those concerned with fashion, textiles, sportswear, interaction design, media and live arts,medical textiles, wellness, perception and psychology, IPR, polymer science,nanotechnology, military, and other relevant research strands.


We will be examining how some broad generic questions will be explored in relation to wearable technology including but not restricted to: aesthetics and design, function and durability versus market forces; the desires, needs and realities of wearable technologies; technology and culture; simplicity and sustainability; design for wearability; wearables as theatre and wearables as emotional ?tools?.
Key fundamental questions across the conference in relation to wearables are:

What is out there?
Who wants it?
What do they want?
How is it achieved?

Please submit an abstract of no more than 400 words in a Word document format by: 14th March 2005 to: hannah.topping@newport.ac.uk

For further information please refer to the conference website: http://artschool.newport.ac.uk/smartclothes

Abstracts and full papers will be peer reviewed and if accepted published in the Conference Proceedings. A selection from the full papers will also be considered for publication in a themed addition of the international journal ?A.I. & Society? (SPRINGER)

Abstracts may be offered as long papers (30 minutes includes questions), short papers (20 minutes includes questions) or for poster presentations. Poster presentations are particularly welcomed from postgraduate students.

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