Abstract—Smart Closet is a web-based recommendation system where users can register and create their own virtual closet .In the Smart Closet system; users can add items, search, and find matches for items from the personal collection of clothing within the internal database. Moreover, users can search for matches of their clothing items from virtual vendors collections that exist in the database .The system can also make recommendations based on the user's pre-specified preferences, sex, item type, seasonal fabrics and colors. Thus, the aim of the system is to introduce a centered virtual location that can put the user, his clothes and the vendors in one place of interaction through the invention of a smart recommendation algorithm that can lead to the simplification of the processes involved in choosing, buying and searching for a clothe. Furthermore, future improvements can be applied to put this system in the real closets and allow the users to share their outfits and to make it a social networking environment. This paper describes the design and development of this virtual closet system; design implications are also discussed.

Index Terms—virtual closet, recommendation, persuasive computing

Cite: Noura N. Al-Omar, Noorah M. Al-Rashed, Hind I. Al-Fantoukh, Rana M. al-Osaimi, Al-Hanouf A. Al-Dayel,  and Sihem Mostefai, "The Design and Development of a Web-Based Virtual Closet: The Smart Closet Project," Journal of Advanced  Management Science, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 124-128, March 2013. doi: 10.12720/joams.1.1.124-128