The paper examines reasons for why individuals buy and use clothes and how notions of sustainability is seen in relation to clothing consumption whereby the study is conducted as a case study with a focus on Danish individuals between the age 18 to 29. This study’s point of departure is positioned around questions on how to handle consumerism, in a world where resources are limited and considerations on the environmental impact of overconsumption must be made. Therefore, firstly accounts on sustainability and with a view on the phenomenon of Fast Fashion is presented.

Ever since societies across the world has started employing algorithms to sort data in social context, the distribution of sorting algorithms has engaged several studies that concern algorithmic
construction, unintended effects of algorithmic sorting, and how individuals, technology and society merge and flourish in our age. Several of these studies has put a strong focus on the hidden layer of information that most studies have denoted: the ‘black box’ of the algorithm.

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This project seeks to examine the natural language capabilities in the Chatbot, Harmony, which is an artificial companion. Through an autoethnographic study, this journal will express scientific and personal expectations to Harmony and how they are expressed through a personal conversation. Firstly, Chatbot Architecture is described as the design principles and will not go into the actual mechanics of building a chatbot. This is merely to try and describe the possible tools needed to build a conversational chatbot, that can communicate through natural language and construct a social front. mm

This paper describes an iterative methodology for creating and evaluating a design, which solves a specific problem. Looking at theories addressing atmospheres and affordances, the paper seeks to create an interactive light installation and to recreate an environments atmospheric sensation, while being self-explanatory in the act of interaction.