Call for Papers (and Exhibition Proposals)

WEARABLES COLLECTIVE Symposium: Weaving Innovation into Stages of Life
March 25-26, 2024
University of California-Davis
https://wearablescollective.ucdavis.edu/

Deadline for submission of full and short papers: January 1, 2024
Deadline for exhibition proposals: January 15, 2024

WEARABLES COLLECTIVE is a two-day symposium focused on e-textiles, smart clothing and other forms of wearable technology applications for health and wellbeing, organized by University of California-Davis in collaboration with the Royal College of Art, London.

The symposium aims for deep exploration and cross disciplinary discussion in wearables of all forms, smart material explorations and tangible human computer/robot interfaces for physical and mental health and wellbeing in all stages of life from infancy to older age, to sleep-work-leisure cycles as well as healthy versus unwell phases in life.

This event is funded by the UC Davis, Global Affairs Seed Grant funding, Smart Clothing and Textiles for Healthcare and Wellbeing: A Research and Learning Network and Broderers’ Textile Innovation Fund (The BTIF is used to support students, research, specialist equipment, knowledge exchange and innovation, enabling a significant amount of important research to be undertaken and greatly enhancing the Royal College of Art, Textiles Programme in London, UK).

TRACKS

Track 1 – Soft Systems Applications:

• Embodied, tactile and sensory e-textiles
• New smart material explorations including biomaterials
• Craft for e-textiles and other soft systems
• Textiles and other material forms crossing over with technology for sensing, actuating, communication and computing

Track 2 – Wearable Product/Technology Applications:

• Wearable tangible interfaces
• Novel smart clothing and other forms of wearable product applications with embodied sensing and actuating capabilities for new-born, babies, childhood and teen, adults including medical; wellbeing; rehabilitation; workwear health and safety; fitness; competitive sports; mental health; long-term medical care; palliative care; disability & reduced cognitive skills
• Novel design processes and methods for wearable product/technology/smart clothing applications
• Commercialization of wearable product/technology/smart clothing: prototype to production, achieving scale; testing, current and anticipated future regulations; market Trends, identifying and planning for 2028
• Industrial and manufacturing applications for wearables

Track 3 – Tangible Human-Computer/Robot Interface Applications:

• Novel tangible interfaces for robotic applications
• Tangible interfaces in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)
• AI for tangible human-computer/robot interface applications
• Tangible human-computer/robot interfaces for accessibility
• Ethical and Privacy Considerations

SUBMISSIONS

Full Paper:

Please submit full papers (4000-6000 words) no later than January 1st 2023. The accepted full papers will be published online and available via Open Access through University of California eScholarship Repository. A select number of accepted papers will be invited to contribute to a special issue of “The Design Journal”.

Please use this template for Full Paper Submission

Short Paper:

Please submit short papers (no more than 2000 words). The accepted short papers will be published online and available via Open Access through University of California eScholarship Repository.

Please use this template for Short Paper Submission

Please visit our website: https://wearablescollective.ucdavis.edu/ for more information about submission and registration.

Short and Full Paper Submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=wc2024

Exhibition Proposal Call and Submission: https://wearablescollective.ucdavis.edu/calls-exhibition-proposals

KEY DATES

• Deadline for submission of full and short papers – January 1st 2024
• Notification of acceptance – February 1st 2024
• Camera-ready deadline – March 1st 2024

• Deadline for exhibition proposals – January 15th  2024
• Notification of acceptance – February 1st 2024
• Deadline for the reception of exhibition works (if by mail) – March 1st 2024
• Exhibition installation: March 23rd and 24th-am 2024