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Affect and material detection illustration

TCC Seminar Series: Engaging people with material through low cost technology

This event took place on 24 May 2022

Affect and material detection illustration, Amber Anderson

Key details

Time

  • 4pm – 5pm

Location

  • Online

Price

  • Free

Who could attend

  • Everyone

School, Centre or Area

Type

  • Webinar

Also in the Textiles Circularity Centre (TCC) Seminar Series series

This seminar presents our work in progress to develop low cost ubiquitous technology to support a textile circular economy based on wellbeing.

In the first part we will discuss how we aim to harness interactive low cost ubiquitous tools to capture garment material properties and behaviour. We will present our initial work on building a new AI-powered material sensing technology based on video camera and thermal imaging. This is to help consumers make informed choices during purchasing as well as help consumers care about long-term material quality maintenance.

In the second part we will discuss our aim to create technology that engages consumers in embodied experiences of textiles to increase awareness of how they feel. We are investigating how multimodal movement sensing technology could be leveraged to engage people in exploring how textiles feel to touch and how they behave and feel when the textiles are worn. The long term aim is to engage people in an embodied dialogue with the clothes they have or want to purchase to ensure a more fulfilling and satisfying experience.

The sixth session in the TCC Seminar Series will be led by Professor Nadia Berthouze and Dr Youngjun Cho from University College London.

Speakers

Nadia Berthouze

Nadia Berthouze

Full Professor in Affective Computing and Interaction, UCL

Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze is a Full Professor in Affective Computing and Interaction at the University College London Interaction Centre (UCLIC). Her research focuses on designing technology that can sense the affective state of its users and use that information to tailor the interaction process. She has pioneered the field of Affective Computing by investigating how body movement and touch behaviour can be used as means to recognize and measure the quality of the user experience. She also studied how full-body technology and body sensory feedback can be used to modulate people’s perception of themselves and of their capabilities to improve self-efficacy and coping capabilities. Her work has been motivated by real-world applications such as physical rehabilitation (EPSRC Emo&Pain, H2020 EnTiMeMent), textile design (EPSRC Digital Sensoria), education (H2020 WeDraw) and wellbeing (Intelligent Embodied Interaction, EPSRC; H2020 Human Manufacturing). She has published more than 200 papers in Affective Computing, HCI, and Pattern Recognition.

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Youngjun Cho

Youngjun Cho

Associate Professor, UCL

Youngjun Cho is Associate Professor in the department of computer science at UCL and a key academic member of Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDIH), WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Assistive Technology and UCL Interaction Centre. Also, he is a co-founder and principal AI architect of KIT-AR (spinout company). He explores, builds and evaluates novel techniques and technologies for the next generation of artificial intelligence-powered physiological computing that boosts disability technology innovation. He has pioneered mobile thermal imaging-based physiological sensing and automated detection of affective states (e.g. mental stress). Before returning to academia back in 2018, he worked as a senior research scientist in the industry (including LG Electronics CTO division) and led a variety of industrial research projects for about a decade, successfully commercialising his novel sensing and machine learning technologies (e.g. gesture-driven advanced touchscreen for vehicles). He has authored more than 70 articles (including patents) in areas related to affective, physiological computing, human-computer interaction and multimodal sensing and feedback.

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In the series

The Textiles Circularity Centre (TCC) presents its events programme of seminars, open labs and research in progress events which invite audiences to explore a vision of a future circular textiles economy for the UK SME apparel-fashion industry based on producing high value textiles from bio waste resource flow. The Seminar Series launched on 27 October 2021 as part of the Textiles Circularity Centre’s programme of events running from October 2021 to the end of 2024. Events are open to all and free to attend.

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One of the key aspects of a circular economy is to keep products in use for as long as possible. We invite all sections of society to participate in discussing and mapping the strategies used by design brands, retailers, charities, waste management initiatives, councils, community groups and researchers that aim to keep apparel in use.
Bio Refinery illustration by Amber Anderson

TCC Seminar Series – Current and future technologies in textile recycling

A seminar presenting the current and next-generation technologies that will enable true textile recycling.
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