Creating Clothing Designs and Accessories for the Elderly by Applying Wearable Technology to Monitor Vital Signs and Meet Age Requirements

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1 College of Design, Qassim University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2 Professor-Fashion Design Department-College of Design-Qassim University

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This study aimed to create designs for clothing and accessories for the elderly by applying wearable technology to monitor vital signs and meet age requirements, in addition to measuring the degree of acceptance by both specialists and consumers of the proposed designs for clothing and accessories for the elderly by applying wearable technology to monitor the vital signs.
The study used the descriptive analytical methodology due to its relevance to the objectives of the research. The limitations of the research were “clothes and their accessories for the elderly (women), age group (65) years and above, and wearable technology (electronic devices to monitor the vital signs).
The study concluded a set of results;The study created ten designs for clothing and accessories for the elderly by applying wearable technology to monitor the vital signs and meet age requirements. Through statistical analysis to measure the specialists’ acceptance of the ten designs, statistically significant differences were found at the level of (0.05)The degree of acceptance of specialists for designs of clothing and accessories for the elderly by applying wearable technology ranged between (89.57) (98.63), which is a high degree of acceptance. As for the statistical analysis to measure consumers’ acceptance of the ten designs, statistically significant differences were found at the level of (0.05) between the consumers’ evaluation of the designs of clothing and accessories for the elderly by applying wearable technology The degree of consumers’ acceptance of the designs of clothing and accessories for the elderly by applying wearable technology ranged between (89.46)،(97.38)

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