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

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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.

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Leah Buechley and Michael Eisenberg. 2009. Fabric PCBs, Electronic Sequins, and Socket Buttons: Techniques for e-Textile Craft. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 13, 2 (Feb. 2009), 133--150.
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Nur Al-huda Hamdan, Simon Voelker, and Jan Borchers. 2018. Sketch&Stitch: Interactive Embroidery for E-textiles. In Procs. of CHI'18. 82:1--82:13.
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Konstantin Klamka, Raimund Dachselt, and Jürgen Steimle. 2020. Rapid Iron-On User Interfaces: Hands-on Fabrication of Interactive Textile Prototypes. In Procs. of CHI '20.
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Paul Strohmeier, Jarrod Knibbe, Sebastian Boring, and Kasper Hornbæk. 2018. zPatch: Hybrid Resistive/ Capacitive eTextile Input. In Procs. of TEI '18.

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        CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
        April 2020
        4474 pages
        ISBN:9781450368193
        DOI:10.1145/3334480
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        1. electronic textile
        2. fabrication
        3. iron-on
        4. patches
        5. rapid prototyping
        6. smart fabric
        7. tapes
        8. wearable user interface

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