Abstract
Wearable technologies afford more pervasive access to the human user: higher bandwidth for communication in multiple modalities, and better context-awareness through sensing the user's body and environment. However, stand-alone devices like wristbands and clip-ons are limited in the body areas they can simultaneously access. Clothing and textiles provide a useful platform for distributed systems, but present unique challenges in design and fabrication. This course provides an introduction to the tools, methods, and techniques of designing and fabricating with soft goods, including patternmaking and construction techniques for different material types at multiple scales, and e-textile methods and materials.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450359719 |
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| State | Published - May 2 2019 |
| Event | 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: May 4 2019 → May 9 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings |
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Conference
| Conference | 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2019 |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Glasgow |
| Period | 5/4/19 → 5/9/19 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grant #1253581
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). ACM
Keywords
- E-textiles sewing
- Patternmaking
- Soft goods
- Textiles
- Wearable technology