AI-Supported User-Product Interactions Towards Creation of a Fashion Design Metaverse Ecosystem

Speaker: Professor Xianyi Zeng
The ENSAIT Textile Engineer School
University of Lille

Title: AI-Supported User-Product Interactions Towards Creation of a Fashion Design Metaverse Ecosystem

Date: Wednesday, 27 August 2025

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Venue: Room 4502 (via lift 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

This presentation gives a comprehensive review of our previous studies on human-fashion product interactions, aimed at creating an AI-augmented Metaverse ecosystem to support a new generation of AI-driven design processes for fashion garments and wearables systems. Modeling complex user-product interactions across physical, cognitive, emotional, and socio-cultural dimensions by integrating multimodal human data and knowledge and real-virtual interactions, as well as creating ergonomic mechatronic system for human body characterization constitute the main axis of our approaches. It enables real-time human body characterization, personalized interactive fashion design recommendations. Our contributions include: (1) development of intelligent garments for online monitoring of human physiological indicators and physical performance, (2) interactive garment design tailored to individual anthropometric and cognitive profiles, (3) fabric digitalization and characterization, (4) knowledge-based adaptive design informed by emotional and socio-cultural factors. The entire fashion design process follows a human-in-the-loop cycle, namely design, recommendation, demonstration, and feedback, driven by joint use of data mining and knowledge integration. This work bridges AI, digital human modeling, and fashion engineering, enabling sustainable, inclusive, and intelligent design workflows within immersive virtual environments.

Biography:

Xianyi Zeng is a full professor (exceptional class) in ENSAIT Textile Engineer School – University of Lille, France, Director of the GEMTEX National Laboratory, and also a guest professor of Donghua University, Soochow University, Nankai University and Wuhan Textile University. He received the titles of French National Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms in 2019, Top-10 Overseas Chinese Scientific Leaders in Europe in 2022, Honorary Doctor at Technical University of Iasi (Romania) in 2019 and University of Boras (Sweden) in 2024 and was holder of the Innovation R&D Award from France-China Committee in 2021. In ENSAIT, he is head of the Department of Design, Distribution and Management and the Research Group for Human-Centered Design. His main research interests include artificial intelligence applied to textiles, fashion and textile digitalization, sensory analysis, intelligent wearable systems, computerized garment design and customized production management. He has published more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and presented more than 270 papers at international conferences and supervised more than 40 PhD students. In addition, as project coordinator, he was coordinator of three European projects and a number of national and regional research projects and industrial innovation projects in cooperation with international textile and fashion groups in France and Europe.