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A Wearable Nebula Material Investigations of Implicit Interaction

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Vasiliki Tsaknaki,

Ludvig ElblausAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '19: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Pages 625 - 633

https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3295623

Published: 17 March 2019 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we present the Nebula, a garment that translates intentional gestures and implicit interaction into sound.Nebula is a studded cloak made from a heavy fabric that envelopes the wearer with many pendulous folds. We describe the design process, and specifically highlight three material investigations that show particularly important material connections that were fundamental to the experience of the garment: How the draping and construction of the garment allowed for implicit interaction, how the studs were used both as a computational sensing material and a strong visual component, and how the sound design exploited tangible material qualities in the garment. Finally, we discuss how such material investigations in general can be put to use. Both as a way to produce evocative connections in the materials available in design work, but also as a way to extract legible design intentions for other designers and researchers.

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A Wearable Nebula Material Investigations of Implicit Interaction
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Sound and music computing
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design

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Spiel KKaltenbrunner MMurer MWolf KOakley I(2021)The Bodies of TEI – Investigating Norms and Assumptions in the Design of Embodied InteractionProceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3430524.3440651(1-19)Online publication date: 14-Feb-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430524.3440651
Tennent PHöök KBenford STsaknaki VStåhl ADauden Roquet CWindlin CSanches PMarshall JLi CMartinez Avila JAlfaras MUmair MZhou FKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)Articulating Soma Experiences using TrajectoriesProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445482(1-16)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445482
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