NOISEwear: development of an interactive garment that emphasizes noise through light

Abstract

One of the factors that determine the quality of our daily lives are sound and noise. They can be a positive contribution to it, or a burden and stress factor, or even a health risk factor. Based on the premise that it is harder to ignore what we see than what we hear, the team developed a garment that senses environmental noise and shows it through lighting. In this way, people are made aware about the noise around them. In this paper, we describe and discuss the design process of the interactive garment developed, which communicates with the user and other people around through light.