Cosplay as inspiration for wearables research

Ella-Noora Polvi, Pradthana Jarusriboonchai, Jonna Häkkilä

UbiComp/ISWC ’19 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers – September 2019 

Cosplay, where people dress up with special costumes resembling or inspired by an imaginary character, derived eg from game or comic genre, is an interesting area of social clothing design. In our on-going research, we consider cosplay as a source of inspiration for wearable computing. We investigate different aspects related to the identity and expression with cosplay costumes, and seek to identify factors that affect the engagement and user satisfaction in participating in the cosplay. We believe that wearable computing research can learn from cosplay, and take elements that help in designing future wearables.

Polvi, E. N., Jarusriboonchai, P., & Häkkilä, J. (2019, September). Cosplay as inspiration for wearables research. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 463-464).