Rethinking the runway: Using avant-garde fashion to design a system for wearables

T Seyed, J Devine, J Finney, M Moskal… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Technology has become increasingly pervasive in the creative and experimental
environment of the avant-garde fashion runway, particularly in relation to its garments …

LIGHT TISSUE: Development of cellulose-based optical textile sensors

S Guridi, E Pouta, A Hokkanen, A Jaiswal - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The development of smart textiles with interactive capabilities has introduced new ways to
embed functional fibers, electrically active materials, and electrical components within …

What's in a cable? Abstracting Knitting Design Elements with Blended Raster/Vector Primitives

H Twigg-Smith, Y Peng, E Whiting, N Peek - Proceedings of the 37th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In chart-based programming environments for machine knitting, patterns are specified at a
low level by placing operations on a grid. This highly manual workflow makes it challenging …

Opportunities with Multi-Layer Weave Structures in Woven E-Textile Design

E Pouta, JV Mikkonen, A Salovaara - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Most textiles in day-to-day use are products of weaving. The versatility of this manufacturing
technique, which readily supports a multi-layered structure, inclusion of several yarn types …

Toward Accurate Sensing with Knitted Fabric: Applications and Technical Considerations

R Vallett, DQ McDonald, G Dion, Y Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Fabric sensors have been introduced to enable flexible touch-based interaction. We
advance the technical capabilities of a scalable and low-profile knitted capacitive touch …

Scaling E-Textile Production: Understanding the Challenges of Soft Wearable Production for Individual Creators

J Zhu, HL Kao - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Electronic textiles (e-textiles) incorporate functional capabilities into fabric forms, providing
direct body contact not afforded by traditional hardware. While widely researched by the …

uKnit: A Position-Aware Reconfigurable Machine-Knitted Wearable for Gestural Interaction and Passive Sensing using Electrical Impedance Tomography

TC Yu, R Arakawa, J McCann, M Goel - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A scarf is inherently reconfigurable: wearers often use it as a neck wrap, a shawl, a
headband, a wristband, and more. We developed uKnit, a scarf-like soft sensor with scarf …

FabPad: Simulating Touchpad for Music Expressivity with Fabric

X Yang, Z Wu - Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We present FabPad, a new music keyboard which is made with fabric. We use ESP32 and
embroidered conductive thread to build some blocks so that it can be simulated as a …