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- demonstrationMay 2024
Wearable Electronic Textiles for Healthcare, Wellbeing, and Protective Applications
- Theo Hughes-Riley,
- Arash M. Shahidi,
- Kalana Marasinghe,
- Zahra Rahemtulla,
- Malindu Ehelagasthenna,
- Parvin Ebrahimi,
- Richard Arm,
- Carlos Oliveira,
- Lars Erik Holmquist,
- Tilak Dias
CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2024, Article No.: 426, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3648646Electronic textiles (E-textiles) can act as an exceptional substrate for incorporating sensing devices for monitoring physiological parameters, as they are comfortable to wear close to the skin. This makes them excellent for a variety of applications in ...
- research-articleJuly 2023
LilyTiny in the Wild: Studying the Adoption of a Low-Cost Sewable Microcontroller for Computing Education
DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceJuly 2023, Pages 282–293https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595994We designed the LilyTiny sewable microcontroller over ten years ago in an effort to make electronic textiles more accessible to students, educators, and novices; it was meant to be affordable, easy to get started with, and well-supported by curriculum. ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Integrating Interactive Technology Concepts With Material Expertise in Textile Design Disciplines
DIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceJune 2022, Pages 1277–1287https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533535Textile and fashion designers are increasingly interested in integrating interactive technologies into their practice. However, traditional design education typically lacks support for them to develop technical digital and electronics skills alongside ...
- extended-abstractApril 2022
The LilyTiny: A Case Study in Expanding Access to Electronic Textiles
CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2022, Article No.: 25, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503579The LilyTiny sewable microcontroller was created ten years ago, in an effort to make electronic textiles more accessible. At the time, e-textiles was gaining traction as a means to invite more diverse participation in computing, but financial and ...
- research-articleFebruary 2021
The Matter of Tools: Designing, Using and Reflecting on New Tools for Emerging eTextile Craft Practices
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Volume 28, Issue 1Article No.: 4, Pages 1–38https://doi.org/10.1145/3426776Tools, as extensions of hand and mind, prescribe defining properties for a practice. We anchor our tools research within a case study of electronic textiles (eTextiles), combining textile materials and electronic and computational functionality. While ...
- research-articleJanuary 2021
Proprioceptively displayed interfaces: aiding non-visual on-body input through active and passive touch
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC), Volume 25, Issue 3Pages 551–569https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01507-yAbstractOn-body input interfaces that can be used accurately without visual attention could have a wide range of applications where vision is needed for a primary task: emergency responders, pilots, astronauts, and people with vision impairments could ...
- research-articleOctober 2020
Interactive Stitch Sampler: A Synthesis of a Decade of Research on Using Electronic Textiles to Answer the Who, Where, How, and What for K--12 Computer Science Education
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), Volume 20, Issue 4Article No.: 28, Pages 1–29https://doi.org/10.1145/3418299Electronic textiles, which integrate computation with fabrics through a redesigned interface of microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators, have expanded possibilities not only for engineering, fashion, and human-computer interaction but also for computer ...
- short-paperNovember 2021
When a Glove Becomes a Gun: From Personally Meaningful to Socially Critical Restorying in Maker Activities
FabLearn '20: Proceedings of the FabLearn 2020 - 9th Annual Conference on Maker EducationApril 2020, Pages 94–97https://doi.org/10.1145/3386201.3386205Maker activities not only allow learners to make technologically rich or personally relevant artifacts but also grapple with critical sociocultural issues. With much of the focus on tools and technology, we have far fewer accounts of learners and ...
- research-articleOctober 2017
Sustaining Making in the Era of Accountability: STEM Integration Using E-Textiles Materials in a High School Physics Class
FabLearn '17: Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in EducationOctober 2017, Article No.: 2, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3141798.3141801Maker-projects have often been implemented in K-12 schools to foster the emergence of identity, develop maker mindsets, fuel creation, and master STEM skills and content. This paper explores the ability of an electronic textiles, or e-textile, maker ...
- short-paperOctober 2016
The E-Textiles Bracelet Hack: Bringing Making to Middle School Classrooms
FabLearn '16: Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in EducationOctober 2016, Pages 107–110https://doi.org/10.1145/3003397.3003416In this paper, we present an electronic textiles project called the "bracelet hack" that is intended to facilitate the introduction of making activities into classrooms. The project's design significantly decreases the costs and amount of classroom time ...
- research-articleApril 2015
Culturally Responsive Making with American Indian Girls: Bridging the Identity Gap in Crafting and Computing with Electronic Textiles
GenderIT '15: Proceedings of the Third Conference on GenderITApril 2015, Pages 9–16https://doi.org/10.1145/2807565.2807707The Maker Movement has been successful in refocusing attention on the value of hand work, but heritage craft practices remain noticeably absent. We argue that combining heritage craft practices, like those found in many American Indian communities ...
- research-articleMarch 2014
A Crafts-Oriented Approach to Computing in High School: Introducing Computational Concepts, Practices, and Perspectives with Electronic Textiles
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), Volume 14, Issue 1Article No.: 1, Pages 1–20https://doi.org/10.1145/2576874In this article, we examine the use of electronic textiles (e-textiles) for introducing key computational concepts and practices while broadening perceptions about computing. The starting point of our work was the design and implementation of a ...
- articleFebruary 2009
Fabric PCBs, electronic sequins, and socket buttons: techniques for e-textile craft
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC), Volume 13, Issue 2Pages 133–150https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-007-0181-0The blossoming research field of electronic textiles (or e-textiles) seeks to integrate ubiquitous electronic and computational elements into fabric. This paper concerns one of the most challenging aspects of the design and construction of e-textile ...
- articleOctober 2007
Using electronic textiles to implement an acoustic beamforming array: A case study
Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PAMC), Volume 3, Issue 5October, 2007, Pages 581–606https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2007.02.003Highly-automated textile manufacturing equipment has the potential for integrating electronic components into fabric in a low-cost process. These electronic textiles (or e-textiles) have a wide range of potential applications in wearable computing and ...
- research-articleApril 2007
E-Textiles for Autonomous Location Awareness
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (ITMV), Volume 6, Issue 4April 2007, Pages 367–380https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2007.51This paper describes an autonomous, wearable location awareness system that determines a user's location within a building given a map of that building. The system uses a moderate number of ultrasonic range transceivers as the sensing elements. Given a ...
- research-articleSeptember 2005
Development of electronic textiles to support networks, communications, and medical applications in future U.S. Military protective clothing systems
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (TITB), Volume 9, Issue 3September 2005, Pages 402–406https://doi.org/10.1109/TITB.2005.854508The focus of this paper is on the development of textile-based wearable electronics that can be integrated into military protective clothing. A materials and manufacturing survey was conducted to determine the best performing and most durable materials ...
- research-articleAugust 2003
Modeling, Analysis, and Self-Management of Electronic Textiles
IEEE Transactions on Computers (ITCO), Volume 52, Issue 8August 2003, Pages 996–1010https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2003.1223635Scaling in CMOS device technology has made it possible to cheaply embed intelligence in a myriad of devices. In particular, it has become feasible to fabricate flexible materials (e.g., woven fabrics) with large numbers of computing and communication ...