In today’s noisy, high-stress world, many of us sit, stand, sleep, speak, act, and move in ways that undermine our breathing and our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Our breath not only brings needed oxygen to the physical body, but it can also bring, when we are conscious of it, the finer energies needed to help nourish our higher bodies - the subtle body, causal body, and so on. Whatever we may believe about our soul and spirit, our breath, and how we breathe, is intimately connected with all aspects of our being. Modern people’s lifestyles and thinking habits have made most people’s breathing shallow, resulting in disconnection with the body and failure to supply enough oxygen to the brain and body cells, which is not conducive to long-term physical and mental health. “Breathing Dress” – a design concept based on “breath” is to make the wearer concerned about his current breath, pay attention to the issue of how to breathe in order to have more energy, and then create subtle interplay with Interactive Fashion (IF) through his own breath. As IF based on “breath” can present the breathing process via visual effects, it can help to promote and perform effective breathing exercises. Another design concept is to identify the basic emotional state of a wearer through breath rate and waveform, namely positive emotion and negative emotion. The wearer can change IF status display by adjusting his breathing. Based on the study of physiological signal parameters and emotional recognition, “Breathing Dress”: based on “breath” applies techniques in the detection system for respiration to conduct overall system design so as to sense the real-time breathing process and identify the emotional state. Dress form was used in this creation. Combinations of external material shape and internal LED light color changes were used to reflect the effects of interaction, to convey technology performance and preserve the beauty of fashion itself at the same time. The inspiration of IF interactive design came from the sense of rhyme of breathing itself and rolling rhythm, aiming to establish the subtle relationship of creating dialogue between the wearer’s breathing and his body via IF. IF appearance design is inspired by shape of light and shadow in hollow patterns. Levels appeared when shadow moves and changes echoed with breathing air, creating a tranquil sense and naturally calming people down. ‘Breathing Dress’ offers choices of color lights for wearer to signal her current emotion state. For instance, when the wear was in bad mood, she could choose red color light to suggest her current emotion state to spectators without saying it. One unique feature of the “Breathing Dress” is real time monitoring. It is real-time sensing of thoracic and abdominal expansion and contraction produced when the wearer breathes with the help of thoracic and abdominal movement wave sensor through which respiration signals were obtained as input data and were entered into the electronic system of “Breathing Dress”. According to both the design concept and design inspiration, the specific setting of the corresponding output presentation was the LED display that had the same shading gradient cycle as respiratory frequency and depth. The LED came on gradually when the wearer was inhaling; the deeper the wearer inhaled, the brighter the LED. Likewise, the LED gradually went off when the wearer was exhaling; the weaker the breath, the darker the LED. The cycle was a breath. In this mode, LED changes were controlled by the breath of the wearer. Another unique feature of the “Breathing Dress” is emotional state recognition which is to give identification responses according to the respiratory wave status of wearer within a set period of time, i.e., taking records of respiration signal sensed by the thoracic and abdominal respiratory movement wave sensor in a set period of time as the input data to be entered into the electronic system of “Breathing Dress”. The specific setting of corresponding output presentation is an extraction on the basis of the models of emotional recognition classification combined with features of physiological signals. For example, when the wearer’s respiratory status showed no obvious fluctuations and was maintained at normal breathing rate and waveform in the set period of time, the emotion was identified as being in a positive state, and LED would remain in the mode 1 presentation form. On the other hand, when the respiratory status of the wearer showed obvious fluctuations in the set time period, with the respiratory rate accelerated and respiratory waveform went dramatically up and down for instance, the emotion was identified as being in a negative state, and the LED would change its presentation form from relatively regular changes into irregular flashes to reflect the disordered breathing and unstable emotional state of the wearer.
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