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.
Real-time browsing on desktops and mobiles
In-depth performance & user evaluation
Pre-market software prototype
Intuitive user interface for visualization & navigation
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.
Visual browsing of images means easier access, more design efficiency, and greater potential for increasing revenue.
Image access through adaptive user interfaces will provide designers the flexibility to spark and fuel their creativity. Mobile phone and converged communications will support interaction of designers with archived material.
Browsing images in an innovative way
Retrieving images efficiently
Managing images for design applications
Easy access to the design archive