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I/O Braid: Scalable Touch-Sensitive Lighted Cords Using Spiraling, Repeating Sensing Textiles and Fiber Optics

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Greg Priest-Dorman,

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UIST '18 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3266037.3271651

Published: 11 October 2018 Publication History

Abstract

We introduce I/O Braid, an interactive textile cord with embedded sensing and visual feedback. I/O Braid senses proximity, touch, and twist through a spiraling, repeating braiding topology of touch matrices. This sensing topology is uniquely scalable, requiring only a few sensing lines to cover the whole length of a cord. The same topology allows us to embed fiber optic strands to integrate co-located visual feedback. We provide an overview of the enabling braiding techniques, design considerations, and approaches to gesture detection. These allow us to derive a set of interaction techniques, which we demonstrate with different form factors and capabilities. Our applications illustrate how I/O Braid can invisibly augment everyday objects, such as touch-sensitive headphones and interactive drawstrings on garments, while enabling discoverability and feedback through embedded light sources.

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I/O Braid: Scalable Touch-Sensitive Lighted Cords Using Spiraling, Repeating Sensing Textiles and Fiber Optics
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
    2. Interaction techniques
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User interface design

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Amesaka TWatanabe HSugimoto MShizuki B(2022)Gesture Recognition Method Using Acoustic Sensing on Usual GarmentProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35345796:2(1-27)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2022
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Ma HYamaoka J(2022)SenSequins: Smart Textile Using 3D Printed Conductive SequinsProceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/3526113.3545688(1-13)Online publication date: 29-Oct-2022
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