Next steps in epidermal computing: Opportunities and challenges for soft on-skin devices

AS Nittala, J Steimle - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Skin is a promising interaction medium and has been widely explored for mobile, and
expressive interaction. Recent research in HCI has seen the development of Epidermal …

KnitUI: Fabricating interactive and sensing textiles with machine knitting

Y Luo, K Wu, T Palacios, W Matusik - … of the 2021 CHI Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
With the recent interest in wearable electronics and smart garments, digital fabrication of
sensing and interactive textiles is in increasing demand. Recently, advances in digital …

SmartSleeve: real-time sensing of surface and deformation gestures on flexible, interactive textiles, using a hybrid gesture detection pipeline

P Parzer, A Sharma, A Vogl, J Steimle, A Olwal… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Over the last decades, there have been numerous efforts in wearable computing research to
enable interactive textiles. Most work focus, however, on integrating sensors for planar touch …

Sketch&stitch: Interactive embroidery for e-textiles

NA Hamdan, S Voelker, J Borchers - … of the 2018 CHI Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
E-Textiles are fabrics that integrate electronic circuits and components. Makers use them to
create interactive clothing, furniture, and toys. However, this requires significant manual …

Embroidered resistive pressure sensors: A novel approach for textile interfaces

R Aigner, A Pointner, T Preindl, P Parzer… - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We present a novel method for augmenting arbitrary fabrics with textile-based pressure
sensors using an off-the-shelf embroidery machine. We apply resistive textiles and …

Knitting access: Exploring stateful textiles with people with disabilities

A Muehlbradt, G Whiting, S Kane… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Wearables are often a primary means of collecting data on the body and in-situ. The data
collected upon wearables can shape or record interactions in real time, prompting practices …

Squeezy-feely: Investigating lateral thumb-index pinching as an input modality

M Schmitz, S Günther, D Schön, F Müller - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
From zooming on smartphones and mid-air gestures to deformable user interfaces, thumb-
index pinching grips are used in many interaction techniques. However, there is still a lack of …

Knitted sensors: designs and novel approaches for real-time, real-world sensing

DQ McDonald, R Vallett, E Solovey, G Dion… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Recent work has shown the feasibility of producing knitted capacitive touch sensors through
digital fabrication with little human intervention in the textile production process. Such …

Sha** textile sliders: an evaluation of form factors and tick marks for textile sliders

O Nowak, R Schäfer, A Brocker, P Wacker… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Textile interfaces enable designers to integrate unobtrusive media and smart home controls
into furniture such as sofas. While the technical aspects of such controllers have been the …

Interactive FUrniTURE: evaluation of smart interactive textile interfaces for home environments

P Brauner, J Van Heek, M Ziefle, NA Hamdan… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Ubiquitous computing strives to reach the calm computing state where sensors and
actuators disappear from the foreground of our surroundings into the fabric of everyday …