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Exploiting Virtual Reality for Enhancing the Shopping Experience in the Fashion Industry: Between Interaction and Perception
No full textNowadays, buying a product online is no longer about the product itself but the experience it offers. The planned thesis work aims to understand how to improve the user's shopping experience in the context of online shopping for the fashion industry. To enhance the shopping experience, retailers need to sell new services by leveraging technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR). The first part of the research investigates which shopping experience, between one developed for a desktop computer-Desktop Virtual Reality (DVR)-and one developed in Virtual Reality (VR), generates better results in terms of hedonic and utilitarian values, cognitive load, and user experience. Also, the lack of touch in online shopping is a crucial issue. The second part of the research concerns the implementation of pseudo-haptics feedback within the online shopping experience with VR. Pseudo-haptics can induce haptic sensations without requiring actual touch through the influence of other sensory modalities, such as vision. To this end, we aim to explore the feasibility of recreating the sensation of people's actual touch with fashion products and fabrics through a 'visualized touch' on an interface. Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Human Information Communication Desig
The Resistance of Architecture at the time that everything and nothing changes
No full textHow many furniture, or houses, or urban districts, that where designed and made in the 80s are still relevant today? What clothes or shoes that period can be worn without appearing old or out of time? Everybody can say almost all. In forty years the living spaces have not changed that much. Even less their projects have been modified. The way in which they are conceived and designed is almost the same. Fashion, architecture, and cities are the sensitive forms that better represent the people that generated them. They express lifestyle, a status and, in some way aspirations and expectations for the future. Is it possible that they remained so indifferent to the changes of the last decades? A few times the distance between gestalt and zeitgeist was so dramatic. The paradigm that binds the aesthetics to the projection of time blowed up. The overcoming of modernity lies especially in this. We live like an eternal present. Where the sensitive forms and their representations in solid space no longer carry an idea of the future. Even today everything changes and so much faster than before. Innovation is conducted in the intangible areas of the net rather than in the material spaces. The Eternal Present involves us in a bounding. There is a kind of impossibility to interpret the future thought the “solid forms” of architecture. To give meaning, narrative and uses—even temporary uses—to spaces that have already given forms and turn them into attractive and ecologically efficient places to live. Narrative can be the design device that describes the capacity for resistance of all that is appreciable through the senses (architecture, fashion, music), the digital revolution of shared information, or in other terms, to the evolution of the concept of author, of copy, of heritage, of form
Mediterraneo_città
No full textPensiamo al Mediterraneo come a una città. Nel senso fisico del termine, anche se non ci riferiamo a una figura urbana tradizionale. Non un vuoto pieno d’acqua tra i continenti, ma una città con un grande paesaggio magnetico al centro. Come ce ne sono altre. Tokyo per esempio che gira come un vortice intorno al giardino imperiale, Washington disegnata ai bordi dell’esplanade o New York a Manhattan col Central Park. Proviamo a immaginarlo così come lo pensava Platone “siamo tutti come uccelli intorno a uno stagno per bere”... Certo le dimensioni nello spazio sono un’altra cosa, ma non contano solo quelle. La capacità di attrazione di flussi sociali, turistici e insediativi, l’intensità delle relazioni interne materiali e non, il riconoscersi delle popolazioni e il riconoscere i paesaggi in un’unica marca antropologica e culturale, ma anche i conflitti e l’irruenza dei cambiamenti, ..., tutto questo costruisce quella coesione interna ad uno stesso ambiente insediativo che tutti consapevolmente chiamano il Mediterraneo.
Il Convegno organizzato dalla Scuola di Dottorato ADD del Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Architettura dell'Università di Genova, Facoltà di Architettura raccoglie gli esiti delle ricerche internazionali e nazionale sulla costa italiana e del Bacino del Mediterraneo che appartengono al network di ricerca MED.NET.EU “New devices for Mediterranean Coastal Territories”
The Recycle GOA Pro-Active Manifesto
No full textThe simultaneous action of three key factors -the
economic crisis, the environment and the revolution for sharing
information technologies- is so deeply changing our lifestyles and the way
we imagine and shape our future that all our design knowledge suddenly
appears to be inadequate both to interpret current inhabiting spaces
situation or as a device capable of generating new environmental, social,
economic qualities and new beaut
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