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Curtain UI: Augmenting Curtains for Tangible Interactions

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Curtains are functional textiles that play a crucial yet invisible role in our daily lives. Despite their widespread use for decoration, blocking heat, privacy, etc., they are still passive in our surroundings. This paper presents a design exploration and development of an interactive curtain interface using capacitive sensing. We augment the capabilities of everyday curtains into touch-sensitive surfaces to facilitate embodied interactions through physical manipulation and gestures. By interfacing these curtains with a smart home environment to control lights, fans, and other appliances, we show that interactive curtains are technically feasible, thus paving the way for novel Curtain UIs as a medium of tangible, embodied, and embedded interaction in a ubiquitous computing scenario.

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      SA '24: SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Posters
      December 2024
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      DOI:10.1145/3681756
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