Sabine Seymour is a designer, author, entrepreneur, and researcher, known for her work in fashionable technology and design. She is the director of the Fashionable Technology Lab and Assistant Professor of Fashionable Technology at

Parsons the New School for Design The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...

. Seymour is the founder of Moondial Inc., a consulting company specializing in the integration of technology and fabrics.Sabine was born and raised in Austria.

Education

Seymour received a PhD and MSc in Social and Economic Sciences from the

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of Economics and

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in New York, and a MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from

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Research

Seymour is the Director of the Fashionable Technology Lab at Parsons The New School for Design and Assistant Professor in Fashionable technology. She is an editorial review board member of the ''International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction'' and chairs the

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Grant–funded project Computational Fashion at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, New York. Seymour has received numerous grants and awards, including the Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design Fellowship. Seymour has published ''Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology'' (Springer, 2008) and ''Functional Aesthetics: Visions in Fashionable Technology'' (Springer, 2010). Seymour was previously a design co-chair for ISWC and a jury member for the

Prix Ars Electronica The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria ...

, a visiting researcher for Computational Cellulose at

Aalto University Aalto University (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Espoo, Finland. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economic ...

, Helsinki, a curator of the MAK Fashion Lab at the

Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna The MAK – Museum of Applied Arts (German: ''Museum für angewandte Kunst'') is an arts and crafts museum located at Stubenring 5 in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt. Besides its traditional orientation towards arts and crafts and design, the ...

, a co-director of the research project BODYMetaphor at the New School, New York, and a steering committee member for Zero Power Smart Fashion, New York.

Entrepreneurship

Seymour is the founder of Moondial Inc., a consulting firm that focuses on intelligent clothing, concepts and creative direction for online or networked environments, strategies for the integration of wireless technologies in clothing and equipment, go-to-market strategies for wearable products, and trend scouting. Moondial works for clients such as

Motorola Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It was founded by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin in 1928 and had been named Motorola since 1947. Many of Motorola's products had been ...

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Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

, and

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. In 2015, Seymour introduced a prototype for a new technology called "Soft Spot" that would integrate

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into fabrics. This technology has since been incorporated into company named "Supa Spot."

References

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