Grabbing at an angle

Textile Designer Perspective on Haptic Interface Design: A Sensorial Platform for Conversation Between Discipline

“…This can also be seen in the extensive surveys on smart textiles (Shi et al, 2019;Weng et al, 2016). The review-papers on smart textiles (Castano & Flatau, 2016 Due to the nature of technical HCI-research on interactions or limiting the use to specific situations, smart textiles-as-sensors tend to be presented as an interface with the electronics as a separate platform, isolating the textile as the primary research element: (Gioberto et al, 2014;Hamdan et al, 2016;Leong et al, 2016;Parzer et al, 2018Parzer et al, , 2017Singh et al, 2015;Yoon et al, 2014). Due to this separation, the textile tends to be distanced from the electronics, and as expected, primarily focusing on the capacity of the smart textile as a sensor.…”

SmartSleeve

“…Stitch-based solutions detect bends and folds [29,14] by sensing interconnections between seams. Similarly, grabbing a fold at a specific angle is detected by using embroidered pads [17]. GestureSleeve [54] has an interesting approach for extending the input space of a smart watch to the sleeve, but only supports tap and stroke gestures.…”

“…The result of this iterative process is a set of nine types of gestures, cf. [29,17,36,54]. SmartSleeve, however, provides a unified sensing framework which allows us to detect all of them within a single pipeline, as shown in Table 3 .…”

“…Most of the existing work in the design space of interactive clothing focuses on surface gestures, planar interactions, such as touch and pressure [54,47,37,13]. Basic deformation has also been shown with stretch [4,61] and rolling for 1D input [29,17].…”

“…We particularly emphasize the opportunity to enable both isotonic and isometric/elastic input, as well as, state-changing interaction with integrated passive haptic feedback. This enables us to support a wide range of deformation gestures, such as Bend [21], Twist [65,31,62], Pinch [65,29,31,62,17], Shake [31], Stretch [31], and Fold [16,63,31]. We further explore the usage of multi-modal input modalities by combining pressure with deformation.…”