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FloraWear: Wearable Living Interface

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JaNiece Campbell,

Andrew M. Webb,

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TEI '23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572801

Published: 26 February 2023 Publication History

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While nature can benefit people both mentally and physically, contemporary society has become increasingly disconnected from nature. To rebuild a stronger connection with nature in our everyday life, we introduce FloraWear, a do-it-yourself, wearable living interface, that enables people to easily and closely connect with plants. This pictorial introduces how knowledge is built and shared with others using hybrid craft and fabrication, illustrates the material experiments and design development for FloraWear, and discusses how it affects wearers. Then we summarize how FloraWear can help catalyze a shift in people's perspectives towards nature. By developing emotional ties to their wearable plants, FloraWear wearers begin to understand that both they and their plants are part of an ecosystem.

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FloraWear: Wearable Living Interface
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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Ghajargar M(2024)"The Words We Do Not Yet Have." A Creative Inquiry Into Human-Plant RelationshipsProceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference10.1145/3681716.3681729(95-108)Online publication date: 8-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3681716.3681729
Hu YLu JScinto-Madonich NPineros MLopes PHoffman G(2024)Designing Plant-Driven Actuators for Robots to Grow, Age, and DecayProceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3661519(2481-2496)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3661519
Janicki SParvin NHowell N(2024)Crip Reflections on Designing with Plants: Intersecting Disability Theory, Chronic Illness, and More-than-Human Design✱Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3643834.3661509(1044-1058)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3661509

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