Integrating Textile Materials with Electronic Making

Posch, Irene; Fitzpatrick, Geraldine

doi:10.1145/3173225.3173255

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“…This method can be useful at the beginning of the design process for helping users in divergent thinking and imagining nonstandard smart garments (i.e., thinking beyond smart shirts). E-textile swatchbooks contain sample swatches and are typically used for knowledge sharing [15,39]. Swatchbooks are useful for co-design because they allow users, who are unlikely to have experience with e-textiles, to explore their potential and come up with wearable concepts [12,51].…”

Section: Cognitive Scaffolds For Wearablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Having a wearer often led to changes in the garment prototype as groups explored ideas and reevaluated their garment concept. When we consider the other e-textile prototyping toolkits such as card sorting [34] and swatchbooks [15,39], this is the benefit of a toolkit like Wearable Bits. By placing the components on the body wearers must consider what that feels like.…”

Section: The Importance Of a Wearermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wearable Bits

Jones

Nabil

McLeod

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Smart garment and wearable e-textile prototypes are difficult to co-design because of the variety of expertise needed (garment design, sewing skills, hardware prototyping, and software programming). To help with this, we developed a toolkit for prototyping wearable etextiles, named Wearable Bits, which enables co-design with non-expert users without demanding sewing, hardware or software skills. We developed a low-fidelity and medium-fidelity experience prototype of the toolkit and ran a series of workshops where non-expert users designed their own e-textile wearables using Wearable Bits. In this paper, we discuss the ideas they developed, their construction techniques, the roles individuals took on while building, and suggestions for future toolkits.

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Section: Cognitive Scaffolds For Wearablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Importance Of a Wearermentioning

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Wearable Bits

Jones

Nabil

McLeod

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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“…The most common tool is the multimeter, which is used to measure resistance, voltage, and continuity [16]. The tools specifically for smart textile development, however, have not evolved on par with smart textiles [26]; with only few tools specific to electronic textile crafts. These tools aim to make the function of a multimeter more accessible, by offering a simplified function measuring resistance, or conductivity, i.e.…”

Section: Current Smart Textile Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even though there are an increasing amount of smart textile design practitioners globally, the methods and tools commonly available for creating a textile with sensing capabilities have not progressed or evolved in the same scale [26]. In practice, a typical smart textile sensing circuit is resistance-based.…”

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Frequency-Based Design of Smart Textiles

Mikkonen

Townsend

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…For instance, a paper electronics station for resistive heaters could offer specialized power and control terminals as well as curate and affix a host of different thermoreactive materials to explore heat as a material. For e-textiles, a stage could incorporate more of the physical practice, exposing power and control through a mannequin, in conjunction with electronic tools translated to the textiles domain [37].…”

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A Conversation with Actuators

Torres

Nicholas

Lee

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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An exciting, expanding palette of hybrid materials is emerging that can be programmed to actuate by a range of external and internal stimuli. However, there exists a dichotomy between the physicality of the actuators and the intangible computational signal that is used to program them. For material practitioners, this lack of physical cues limits their ability to engage in a "conversation with materials" (CwM). This paper presents a creative workstation for supporting this epistemological style by bringing a stronger physicality to the computational signal and balance the conversation between physical and digital actors. The station utilizes a streaming architecture to distribute control across multiple devices and leverage the rich spatial cognition that a physical space affords. Through a formal user study, we characterize the actuation design practice supported by the CwM workstation and discuss opportunities for tangible interfaces to hybrid materials. CCS Concepts•Human-centered computing → Interactive systems and tools; Systems and tools for interaction design;

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Integrating Textile Materials with Electronic Making

Cited by 49 publications

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Frequency-Based Design of Smart Textiles

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