Fabric computing interfaces

Orth, Maggie; Post, Rehmi; Cooper, Emily A.

doi:10.1145/286498.286800

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Section: Instrumenting Everyday Objectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The integration of capacitive touch sensors into clothing was first explored in 1998 [143]. Researchers have since used this approach to implement health applications [8,30,185] and ubiquitous touch interfaces [43,76,92,143,152]. Sensors have thereby been placed on pants [172,185], belts [43,196], shoes [145], gloves [104,209], and jackets [152].…”

Section: Instrumenting Everyday Objectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Finding Common Ground

Große-Puppendahl

Holz

Cohn

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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For more than two decades, capacitive sensing has played a prominent role in human-computer interaction research. Capacitive sensing has become ubiquitous on mobile, wearable, and stationary devices-enabling fundamentally new interaction techniques on, above, and around them. The research community has also enabled human position estimation and whole-body gestural interaction in instrumented environments. However, the broad field of capacitive sensing research has become fragmented by different approaches and terminology used across the various domains. This paper strives to unify the field by advocating consistent terminology and proposing a new taxonomy to classify capacitive sensing approaches. Our extensive survey provides an analysis and review of past research and identifies challenges for future work. We aim to create a common understanding within the field of human-computer interaction, for researchers and practitioners alike, and to stimulate and facilitate future research in capacitive sensing.

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Section: Instrumenting Everyday Objectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Instrumenting Everyday Objectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Finding Common Ground

Große-Puppendahl

Holz

Cohn

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

163

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“…Disappearing mobile devices prototype smallest-possible visual sensors and researchers have speculated on the possibility of implanting them [31]. Instead of attaching devices to the body, clothing has been made interactive by using conductive thread to sense pinches [24] and touch on clothing, such as on keypads made of fabric [33] or entire touchpads [35]. Wearable devices typically need to be explicitly put on or removed, either on a daily basis, or for specific activities.…”

Section: Wearable Devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While implanted devices have existed for a long time in the medical domain, such as hearing aids or pacemakers, they support only limited interaction, and cannot support personal tasks. Unlike other types of mobile devices, such as wearables [40] or interactive clothing [33], implanted devices are with the user at all times. Implanting thus truly allows always-available interaction [37].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implanted user interfaces

Holz

Grossman

Fitzmaurice

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We investigate implanted user interfaces that small devices provide when implanted underneath human skin. Such devices always stay with the user, making their implanted user interfaces available at all times. We discuss four core challenges of implanted user interfaces: how to sense input through the skin, how to produce output, how to communicate amongst one another and with external infrastructure, and how to remain powered. We investigate these four challenges in a technical evaluation where we surgically implant study devices into a specimen arm. We find that traditional interfaces do work through skin. We then demonstrate how to deploy a prototype device on participants, using artificial skin to simulate implantation. We close with a discussion of medical considerations of implanted user interfaces, risks and limitations, and project into the future.

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“…At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Post and Orth (1997) experimented with a number of physical computer interfaces constructed from conductive fabrics and threads, often integrated into clothing. They described both a sewn matrix keypad and an embroidered capacitive touch keypad, as well as some output schemes for the decorative illumination of garments (Orth, Post, & Cooper, 1998). The devices are essentially conventional switchgear, translated from metal and plastic into thread and fabric.…”

Section: The State Of the Art (Textiles And Computing)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sensory Fabric for Ubiquitous Interfaces

Swallow

Thompson²

2001

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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Sensory Fabric is a technology that uses electrically conductive textiles to fabricate switches and sensors. In this article we examine how a number of broad device types, or form factors, can be reconfigured or made more ubiquitous by replacing their traditional interface hardware with Sensory Fabric. The implications of using a fabric solution are explored for handheld and personal devices, educational computing, and the personal computer interface. Each case study describes a number of technology demonstrator devices, using them to illustrate how some of the drawbacks of traditionally packaged interfaces can be countered. Sensory Fabric can replace small, cold, hard, heavy, and smooth interfaces with large area, warm, soft, lightweight, and tactile ones.

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Fabric computing interfaces

Cited by 66 publications

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