Mono-fold is a novel e-textile and a wearable device that can remotely measure the size and the strain of clothes in E-commerce.
Delivery returns contribute to the environmental impact of e-commerce, as 30% of all deliveries are returning to where they came. Since texts and images on e-commerce deliver all the information, it causes an information gap leading to unwanted products.
Experiments were conducted to study end-users ' behaviour, contextualising in apparel, which had the most return rates. Rather than transferring physical body measurements to the digital software, bringing digital clothes measurements to the physical world is more effective as it allows consumers to use physical references. Therefore, I developed an e-textile for human-computer interaction to standardise clothes sizes.
The final e-textile was created by measuring two features of clothes: size and strain. The application of this e-textile is a wearable device. Users can adjust the size of the wearable device as a physical reference of what they see in digital marketplaces. Depending on how much you adjust the wearable, it will automatically choose the right size using the measurement data, and the right material for the clothes using the strain data.
