Int J Performability Eng ›› 2019, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (2): 591-601.doi: 10.23940/ijpe.19.02.p23.591601

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Innovation of Smart Jewelry for the Future

Yi Song()   

  1. Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, CO.,Beijing, 100029, China
  • Revised on ; Accepted on
  • Contact: Song Yi E-mail:lovesongyi@126.com
  • About author:Yi Song is a teacher specializing in jewelry design at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology who set up smart jewelry design for two consecutive years in the course “Jewelry Digital Design” and led students to jointly complete the innovative design of smart jewelry. The awards and exhibitions that the teacher has won and participated in include: the Silver Prize of Gold Design Competition of China's Gold Capital Cup in 2004, second award of National Jewelry Design Competition of CCTV Fashion China in 2005, Excellent Design Award of HRD International Diamond Jewelry Design Competition in 2005, and Excellent Design Award of HRD International Diamond Jewelry Design Competition in 2007. In 2008, the book “To Be Beautiful with Jewelry” was published by China Light Industry Press, and the design works were exhibited in the 2013 International Jewelry Art Biennial, 2016 Shanghai International Jewelry Fair, 2016 T&D Lifestyle Design and International Science, and Technology Forum “Technology and Arts” Exhibition. A personal work exhibition “Daily Beauty” was displayed at the China Fashion Week DHUB Exhibition in China and 2017 Shanghai Fashion Week MODE Exhibition.

Abstract:

Smart jewelry is a subcategory of wearable devices. Compared with conventional jewelry, smart jewelry has advantages such as beautified appearance, wearability, and practicability. As an emerging category, smart jewelry has attracted much attention from developers and consumers, but it is still at an initial stage of development and is faced with arduous difficulties and challenges. This paper analyzes the consumption characteristics and market performance of smart jewelry products and focuses on the innovation strategies of smart jewelry products in the future. How can developers diversify the functions of jewelry with wearable computing technology and actively seek for difference and change under existing conditions? The innovation of smart jewelry products shall center on the users and the new thought of future development shall be explored starting from cross thinking, scene innovation, and blur boundary so as to find out the new relationship between smart jewelry and humans and provide the reference for developers. With the development of science and technology in the future, miniaturization and diversity will make the boundary between smart jewelry and conventional jewelry increasingly indistinct, and wearable computing will enrich the interaction mode between humans and jewelry. The developers shall have moreopen attitudes and take “innovation” as the core driving force of product development so as to reconstruct the aesthetics and connotation of jewelry and bring more possibilities for jewelry.

Key words: function, innovation, smart jewelry, wearable computing