For Week 3, we received feedback from ETC faculty members and conducted further research based on the idea we proposed.
Research
Our research is based on the following ideas/questions:
Upcycling
- Background research: What’s already out there?
- User research: Do people care about the sustainability of fashion?
- Technical research: Potential solutions, programming, realistic 3D visualization.
- The difficulties we might face include cutting clothing models and reassembling them into new garments.
- One possible solution is to create different parts of clothing in modeling software and use sockets in the Unreal Engine to assemble them.
Sustainability Rating System for the Industry
- Background research: Are there other standards? (e.g., Clean beauty?)
- User research: Economic considerations
- Technical research: Solutions, programming, realistic 3D visualization
1/4 walkaround whiteboard
Plan for next week
- meeting with our subject expert Erik
- idea finalization
- hardware setup