Entry Date:
May 11, 2015

Social Textiles: Social Affordances and Ice-Breaking Interactions Through Wearable Social Messaging

Principal Investigator Patricia Maes


Social Textiles embodies who you are and dynamically reflects your shared interests with people nearby. It enables you to gain access to communities of people in the physical world and enhances social affordances and icebreaking interactions through wearable social messaging. Social Textiles can serve to connect community members with niche interests, philosophical beliefs, personalities, emotional statuses, and ethical views. It has the potential to enable members to bypass superficial or generic interests through “filtering” individuals, to tune social experiences toward people who are more compatible.