Facilitating participatory practice for smart textiles
Sarah Beth Anderson Walker, Sarah Kettley, Tina Downes, Tilak Dias · 2015
The area of smart textiles presents an opportunity for collaboration to occur between other fields. However, despite the need for multi-disciplinary work there is a lack of literature to support how disciplines work together within this field. This paper discusses the research proposal submitted as part of the PhD study where a pilot study investigation was undertaken to support the development of the research study and methodology. As a result of this pilot study the research identified that the PhD study will investigate the participatory and relational aspects of individuals working in smart textiles in an effort to support multidisciplinary work in this field. Further the pilot study outlines how an ethnographic approach using participant-observation and inter-personal process recall interviews will be used to conduct the research study.