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Pinstripe: eyes-free continuous input on interactive clothing

Authors:

Thorsten Karrer,

Moritz Wittenhagen,

Leonhard Lichtschlag,

Florian Heller,

Jan BorchersAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1313 - 1322

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979137

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

We present Pinstripe, a textile user interface element for eyes-free, continuous value input on smart garments that uses pinching and rolling a piece of cloth between your fingers. The input granularity can be controlled in a natural way by varying the amount of cloth pinched. Pinstripe input elements physically consist of fields of parallel conductive lines sewn onto the fabric. This way, they can be invisible, and can be included across large areas of a garment. Pinstripe also addresses several problems previously identified in the placement and operation of textile UI elements on smart clothing. Two user studies evaluate ideal placement and orientation of Pinstripe elements on the users' garments as well as acceptance and perceived ease of use of this novel textile input technique.

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DOI:10.1145/1978942

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