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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Grabrics: a foldable two-dimensional textile input controller
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Nur Al-huda Hamdan
  • Florian Heller
  • Chatchavan Wacharamanotham
  • Jan Thar
  • Jan Borchers
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISBN 978-1-4503-4082-3
Page Range 2497 - 2503
Event Title CHI '16 EA: Extended Abstracts of 2016 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Event Type conference
Event Location San Jose, California, USA
Event Start Date May 7 - 2016
Event End Date May 12 - 2016
Place of Publication New York, NY, USA
Publisher ACM
Abstract Text Textile interfaces can be ubiquitously integrated into the fabrics that already surround us. So far, however, existing interfaces transfer concepts, such as buttons and sliders,to the textile domain without leveraging the affordances and qualities of fabric. This paper presents Grabrics, a two-dimensional textile sensor that is manipulated by grabbing a fold and moving it between your fingers. Grabrics textile nature allows it to be integrated invisibly into everyday clothing or into textile objects, like a living room sofa. We describe the construction and the fold-based interaction technique of Grabrics sensor. A preliminary user study shows that Grabrics can be folded and manipulated from any arbitrary position, and it can detect 2D stroke gestures reliably.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1145/2851581.2892529
Other Identification Number merlin-id:13384
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