Physical interaction design DH2400

Woven by Patrick Kersten and Christiaan Ribbens is the project of two students of Interaction Design at Utrecht School of Arts and consists in a shirt that provides different features such as: speakers, bluetooth, 12x12 RGB led piel screen, bend sensors, heart rate sensor, shake motor. This is driven by some arduino Lilypads as well as through a smartphone which comunicate with all this devices. 

What they wanted to achieve was to create a platform to help game designers build new game experiencies with new hardware that provides a more human appealing interaction. What I liked of the project is the fact that they opened they work to other people so everyone can benefit from the hardware they have built. This is why they call it platform instead of just something specific for making one game. The same happened with the interactive cubes from the MIT media lab and helped other people to focus in the interaction itself rather than trying to reivent the wheel again when what you need is already done by another.