Anouk Wipprecht
Anouk Wipprecht’s SCREENDRESS is a 3D printed dress with embedded screens that display and reflect the wearer’s mental health state by measuring their brain signals.
By using the “Unicorn Headband” EEG sensor jointly developed by the artist and a tech company, the dress gives an external display of hidden conditions, such as the wearer’s stress levels.
As well as being a stylish medical device highlighting the users and the areas requiring these devices, Wipprecht’s creation also offered visitors a vision of methods and approaches to inclusive design which enable diverse people to be involved in the highly specialized field of medical care.
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Anouk Wipprecht
Dutch based Hi-Tech Fashion Designer and Innovator Anouk Wipprecht. As she is working in the emerging field of "FashionTech"; a rare combination of fashion design combined with engineering, science and interaction/user experience design. Producing an impressive body of tech-enhanced designs bringing together fashion and technology in an unusual way: she creates technological couture; with systems around the body that tend towards artificial intelligence.
SCREENDRESS
This 3D printed dress with embedded screens fosters a tech-mediated connection between the wearer and their surroundings. It's driven by the wearer's subconscious brain signals, captured by an advanced EEG sensor called 'Unicorn Headband' in collaboration with g.tec that forms a wearable brain-computer interface. Machine learning gauges the wearer's mental workload and visualizes it on six circular displays on the dress's neckpiece. As the workload intensifies, the displays simulate dilating eyes, creating an otherworldly effect.