ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

In the fashion industry, fashion technology is a new value-added industry that will reopen the sluggish fashion market. Fashion technology can be divided into wearable areas where fashion and technology are fused and online service areas. In particular, wearable technology, which combines fashion and technology, enabled the creation of universal design fashion that is useful for everyone regardless of age, nationality, gender, disability, and physical ability. This study intended to analyze the types of smart fashion products from a Universal perspective and to present the direction of fashion and technology convergence. To this end, the theoretical background was studied through Universal Design, books related to Smart Fashion, and papers, and various cases were collected and analyzed through Internet sites such as Google and Naver. The data collected were analyzed into three types of electronic, interactive, and scientific universal fashion, and five design principles were examined: ‘low physical effort’, ‘flexibility in use’, ‘stability’, ‘equitable use’ and ‘aesthetics’. The results of the study are as follows. Among the three types, interactive universal fashion types were most common among smart healthcare products, and the functions of physical, social, and emotional interactions also worked evenly. In the electronic universal fashion type, examples of robot suits and robot dresses applying robot technology are noteworthy in terms of future value. The scientific universal fashion type is the one that can realize true smart fashion by developing state-of-the-art materials with special sensors, and it should be based on ergonomic design. The findings are expected to enhance product research capabilities through academic analysis in the smart fashion field from a universal design perspective and help fashion industry develop products by providing a direction for fashion and technology convergence.

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