The Smart Clothes Wearable Technology Research Group at the University of Wales, UK is organising a Wearable Futures Conference in September and are looking for submissions. Keynotes: Suzanne Lee, Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, Fashion Consultant and author of Fashioning the Future pub Thames and Hudson Sept 2005 Joanna Berzowska, Artist and Assistant Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal Sarah E. Braddock Clarke, Lecturer, Curator and Writer. Co Author of Techno Textiles, SportsTech and Techno Textiles2 pub 2005 Chris Baber University of Birmingham, Reader in Interactive Systems Deadline for Abstracts: 14th March 2005 This two day International conference will aim to contextualise the future potential of Wearable Technologies in a variety of fields ranging from military application to fine art. "Wearable Futures is an interdisciplinary conference, which aims to bring together practitioners, inventors, and theorists in the field of soft technology and wearables including those concerned with fashion, textiles, sportswear, interaction design, media and live arts, medical textiles, wellness, perception and psychology, IPR, polymer science, nanotechnology, military, and other relevant research strands. We will be examining how some broad generic questions will be explored in relation to wearable technology including but not restricted to: aesthetics and design, function and durability versus market forces; the desires, needs and realities of wearable technologies; technology and culture; simplicity and sustainability; design for wearability; wearables as theatre and wearables as emotional 'tools'." Please submit an abstract of no more than 400 words in a Word document format by: 14th March 2005 to: Abstracts and full papers will be peer reviewed and if accepted published in the Conference Proceedings. A selection from the full papers will also be considered for publication in a themed addition of the international journal 'A.I. & Society' (SPRINGER) Abstracts may be offered as long papers (30 minutes includes questions), short papers (20 minutes includes questions) or for poster presentations. Poster presentations are particularly welcomed from postgraduate students.