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Author:   Sibel Deren Guler ,  Madeline Gannon ,  Kate Sicchio
Publisher:   APress
Imprint:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   4.656kg
ISBN:  

9781484218075

ISBN 10:   1484218078
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   13 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction.- Part I: What Are Wearables?.- 1. A Brief History of Wearables.- 2. Wearable Fictions.- Part II: Methods and Techniques.- 3. From Textiles to Wearables.- 4. Cutting and Sewing.- 5. Making Electronics Sewable.- 6. Soft Circuits.- 7. Materials that Matter.- 8. Digital Design for Wearables.- 9. Digital Fabrication for Wearables.- 10. Designing for the Body, On the Body.- Part III: Fashion and Product.- 11. Wearable Wellness.- 12. Beauty Tech.- 13. Superhumans and Cyborgs.- 14. Activated Garments.- 15. Wearable Costumes.- 16. Speculations of Wearable Futures.- 17. Looking into the Future.- Part IV Appendix.- A. Cyborg ""Fingercaps"" and Resources."

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Sibel Deren Guler is a physicist, designer, and educator based in New York. She researches and develops technology that uses interactivity and computation to explore nature and create playful experiences. Designing accessible tools to improve the quality of life and empower the user is her key motivator. She has led design and engineering-based workshops around the world and has been exploring wearable technology for several years through personal research and collaboration. She is creator of a series of toolkits under the Teknikio brand enabling you to embed smart materials and electronics into clothing and craft projects, and employs those kits to fill a gap in hands-on science and engineering products for children, especially for young girls. She uses e-textiles in Teknikio to teach concepts of fashion design and engineering. Guler has a personal interest in fashion design that she credits to her mother and grandmother who are incredible seamstresses. She is a co-founder of the FatCatFabLab, and adjuncts at Parsons the New School for Design.

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