Identifying Critical Points of Departure for the Design of Self-Fashioning TechnologiesShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Proceedings Of The 2025 Chi Conference On Human Factors In Computing Sytems, Chi 2025, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025, article id 119Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Designing technologies that clothe, adorn, or are otherwise placed on the body raises questions concerning the role they will play in dressing ourselves. We situate self-fashioning - or the process through which we stylise and present our bodies - as a complex practice where a series of social, material, and contextual factors shape how we present ourselves. Informed by reflective discussions and projective design tools, we contribute three critical points of departure for self-fashioning technologies: (i) Purposeful examining discomfort as an ongoing phenomenon, (ii) Supporting mimesis and visibility as qualities to be negotiated, and (iii) Envisioning the multiplicity of the body. We call for the design community to help devise fashionable technologies that are sensitive, caring, and responsive to the complexities of fashioning our bodies.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025. article id 119
Keywords [en]
self-fashioning, fashion, fashionable technology, wearables, soma design, body-centric design
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-374159DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3714175ISI: 001501412600248Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105005741238OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-374159DiVA, id: diva2:2022781
Conference
2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems-CHI, APR 26-MAY 01, 2025, Yokohama, Japan
Note
Part of ISBN 9798400713941
QC 20251217
2025-12-172025-12-172025-12-17Bibliographically approved