User perspective for interactive handbag design

In this paper, we address handbags as interactive mobile devices. As handbags are typical accessories carried practically by half of the adult population when on the move, they offer an interesting and widely distributed platform for mobile computing. As handbags are visible items representing the user's style, and form part of the user's overall outfit, aesthetics form an important part of their design. In this paper, we report ideas gathered from 20 participants that participated to a user study on the topic.