Space Skirt (2008)

The Space Skirt explores the use of soft sensors and the interactions involved with personal space. There are two soft sensors placed in the hips of the shirt that cause the skirt to inflate when depressed. This could be caused by the unwelcome grabbing of the hips by a separate individual, or by the placing of the hands on the hips, often a signal of displeasure or disbelief.

The original skirt was designed for the 2003 Fall Winter Collection for Emilio Cavallini. The use of the paper Tyvek material was intended to create a large volume while creating a futuristic look. In creating the Skirt it was realized that Tyvek has a tight cover (technical term in fashion design used to describe how air flows through a textile) which would make it optimal for inflation. A coating was used to exaggerate this property of the cover. The electronics uses soft textile sensors.

The skirt creates a sense of personal space and helps the user define that space in a physical manner.

Jump Jacket (2006)

Created in 2005, the Jump Jacket was an exploration into technology as much as it was a wearable piece. Using Charlie Plexing and row scanning with an Arduino NG, the Jump Jacket used a hacked Nintendo Wii Chuck for its Accelerometer. In the early iterations of the project a library for the same accelerometer that the Wii uses was shared on Sparkfun, but the connections and reliability offered by Nintendo along with explorations into Hardware Hacking lead to using the Wii Chuck.