Sensory Fashion - eScent annimation

SENSORY FASHION is a project that explores wearable technologies as an extension of ‘aromachology’ (the study of aroma and the effects this fragrance have on human psychology and behaviuor); the perception of a particular aroma could be induced by electronically controlled to reduce stress and anxiety, Improve sleep and help manage lifestyle for people living with General and Chronic mental health conditions stimulation to reduce stress, improve sleep and help manage lifestyle for people with general and chronic mental health conditions.

Sensory Fashion chooses scents as a tool to improve mental and physical wellbeing. It fuses fashion with emerging technologies, to create responsive clothes that offer social and therapeutic value in a desirable fashion context.
By combining biology with wearable technologies and biometric sensors, Sensory Fashion proposes a biotechnological solution that is translated into sensory jewellery or clothing elements. Clothes emit evidence-based scents to induce wellbeing via a discreet wearable biofeedback loop when stress levels reach a pre-set threshold. A localised ‘scent cloud’ is released in response to a biometric stimulus and tailored to fit specific moods like joy, bliss, fear, anxiety or sadness. The purpose of the cloud is to enhance the wearer's experience with beneficial aromas.

Sensory Fashion provides wellbeing research with new tools to unlock emotional memories and to complement mood monitoring tools for the ‘Quantified Self’, to combat depression and help with stress and sleeping issues. In the future, several psychiatric disorders could be explored as an application of Sensory Fashion. These applications could help us to deal with more and more common conditions such as mood symptoms in bipolar disorder, anxiety, postnatal depression or panic disorder.

This animation project supported the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust travel fellowship to the USA which explored evidenced-based 'Sensory Fashion' and Quantified Self stress management tools to benefit chronic mental health conditions (Travel March-April 2014)

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