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Clothing functions and use of clothing to alter mood
International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, 2013The purpose of our study was to examine the antecedents to use of clothing to alter mood by identifying personality traits, social appearance anxiety, clothing in relation to self as structure (CSS), and clothing functions. Undergraduate women participated (n=310) in the study.
Ju-Young M. Kang +2 more
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2015
Functional Clothing Design is a book about how and why clothing works. This interdisciplinary text introduces new ways to look at the human body, the environment and clothing and to explore the relationships between them by looking at the ways clothing achieves goals such as protecting the body, increasing health and safety, improving a workers ...
Susan M. Watkins, Lucy E. Dunne
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Functional Clothing Design is a book about how and why clothing works. This interdisciplinary text introduces new ways to look at the human body, the environment and clothing and to explore the relationships between them by looking at the ways clothing achieves goals such as protecting the body, increasing health and safety, improving a workers ...
Susan M. Watkins, Lucy E. Dunne
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Functional Clothing Design for the Elderly
AHFE International, 2022This paper introduces a functional clothing design for the elderly. Due to the aging of the elderly body organs and tissues, joint stability and mobility are declining, bone density and strength are also declining, physical activity is not as good as before. The purpose of this paper is to determine the needs and problems of the elderly on clothing and
Yixin Fan, Xiaoping Hu
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Functional clothing for natural disaster survivors
Disaster Prevention and Management, 2015Purpose – Natural disasters, occurring with increasing frequency are mobilizing humanitarian agencies to provide relief response. Current protocols that rely heavily on donated clothing as clothing aid are neither effective nor efficient.
Nabeela Ahsan, Sandra Tullio-Pow
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Designing Functional Clothing for Human-robot Interaction
Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021We believe that we can design robot clothes to help robots become better robots-help them to be useful in a wider array of contexts, or to better adapt or function in the contexts they are already in. We propose that robot clothing should avoid mere mimicry of human apparel, and instead be motivated by what robots need.
Natalie Friedman +7 more
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Functional Clothing for The Differently Abled
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 2017Disability may be broadly defined as a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities. Functional clothing is essentially designed to fulfil special requirements of the wearer including body disproportions or impairment. It also may affect a person's emotional wellbeing.
Sanjeevani Ayachit, Millie Thakur
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