Abstract
Electronic textile (or e-Textile) is the material integrating digital information transmission ability and traditional fabric characteristics, which leads to great tactile interaction. However, the current research of the interaction of e-Textile are still influenced by the interaction mode adopted from electronic devices, such as the capacitive touch of the interactive elements. In this paper, we want to focus on how to interact with e-Textile in more textile characteristic ways, and pay more attention to the tactile semantics of materials in the process of interaction design. In order to apply the unique interactive way and interactive ability of e-Textile, this paper designs a group of interactive lighting devices. The lights combined with e-Textile can be used as output information to give feedback to the interactive behavior. The research for different interaction of e-Textile will expand the extension of fabric interaction mode, and tap the great potential of textile material properties in human-computer interaction.
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. This research was supported by 2019 National Social Science Foundation Art Project “Interaction Design Method Research based on AI”, the number is 19BG127.
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Meng, X., Wu, Q. (2021). Design of an Interactive Device Based on e-Textile Material. In: Stephanidis, C., et al. HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Papers: Multimodality, eXtended Reality, and Artificial Intelligence. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13095. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90963-5_6
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