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Soft Design: Bio-Inspired Wearable Robotics for Fashion Technology

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Soft Design: Bio-Inspired Wearable Robotics for Fashion Technology

Listen to a virtual talk with Dr. Yin Yu, a multidisciplinary designer and interior architecture professor at SDSU, as she shares her research projects covering the potential of soft robotics in wearable design.

In her talk, Dr. Yin Yu shares how to design a bird-feather-inspired wearable fashion technology with soft material, highlighting why biomimicry design in soft robotics creates engaging human-computer interaction empowering designers’ creativity.

Soft Design: Bio-Inspired Wearable Robotics for Fashion Technology /// San Diego Design Week 2022

About the host

Yin Yu

Yin Yu is an artist, designer, engineer, and educator. Her design research explores the potential of interactive multimedia environments and the intersection of architecture, music, and emerging technologies in the creative fields. Her practice blends product design, furniture, interior architecture, human computer interaction, fashion technology, and arts. Her works have been published and exhibited in international venues, such as the Human-Computer Interaction (US), the Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (France), the Wearable Technology Exhibition (Spain), and the Xenakis22 Symposium (Greece). Yin has a BS in Electronic Engineering, a MS in Information Technology, a MS in Interior Architecture, and a Doctorate in Media Arts and Technology. She will be an Assistant Professor in the School of Art + Design at SDSU starting Fall 2022.