Demonstrating Rapid Iron-On User Interfaces: Hands-on Fabrication of Interactive Textile Prototypes

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Abstract

Rapid prototyping of interactive textiles is still challenging, since manual skills, several processing steps, and expert knowledge are involved. We demonstrate Rapid Iron-On User Interfaces, a novel fabrication approach for empowering designers and makers to enhance fabrics with interactive functionalities. It builds on heat-activated adhesive materials consisting of smart textiles and printed electronics, which can be flexibly ironed onto the fabric to create custom interface functionality. To support rapid fabrication in a sketching-like fashion, we developed a handheld dispenser tool for directly applying continuous functional tapes of desired length as well as discrete patches. We demonstrate versatile compositions techniques that allow to create complex circuits, utilize commodity textile accessories and sketch custom-shaped I/O modules. We further provide a comprehensive library of components for input, output, wiring and computing. Three example applications demonstrate the functionality, versatility and potential of this approach.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelExtended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ErscheinungsortNew York, NY, USA
Herausgeber (Verlag)Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York
Seiten1–4
ISBN (Print)9781450368193
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2020
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

Scopus 85090245448
ORCID /0000-0003-1467-7031/work/142253350
ORCID /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/151435400

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • smart fabric, rapid prototyping, fabrication, wearable user interface, patches, electronic textile, tapes, iron-on