FABRIC (Fashion and Apparel Browsing for Inspirational Content)
FABRIC (Fashion and Apparel Browsing for Inspirational Content) is a collaborative project to develop and evaluate software that will improve browsing, retrieval, and management of digital art images throughout the textile and clothing industry, with application to other creative industries. Novel elements in FABRIC include use of manifold learning to enable art images to be identified from within contributing databases and presented to designers and other users in a format that accommodates their individual styles of browsing. The software interface will be developed to be useful, usable, and used by applying user-centred design. Objectives include real-time browsing on desktop and mobile platforms, provision of a pre-market software prototype, in-depth performance evaluation, a browsing engine, and an intuitive user interface for visualisation and navigation of image manifolds.
The FABRIC project runs from 2007-2010 and receives funding from the UK BERR Technology Programme.
Project Management
Dr. Annette Ward, Scottish Power Research Fellow and Development Manager and FABRIC Project Manager, University of Dundee.
Dr. Stephen McKenna is the Principal Investigator for the FABRIC project at the University of Dundee.
Professor Ian Ricketts holds a personal chair in Assistive Systems and Healthcare Computing at the University of Dundee.
Peter Taylor, Liberty Fabric Ltd Managing Director.
Anna Buruma, Liberty Archivist, textile historian.
James Stevenson, Manager of the Photographic Studio, V&A Museum.
Dr. Paul Sergeant, CEO of Calico Jack.
Mike Stapleton, Managing Director of System Simulation.
Dr Nic Sheen, former CEO of iBase
Chris wilkie, formerly of the BBC
Funder: DTI/EPSRC
Start Date: 01/02/2007
End Date: 30/04/2010
For further information about the FABRIC (Fashion and Apparel Browsing for Inspirational Content) project please contact Professor Stephen McKenna.
Or visit the website at: http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/projects/fabric/