Knitted RESi is a knit textile capable of sensing external stress, via a force sensing technical yarn. It can sense pressure, stretch, and any other deformation. Our demonstrator provides live feedback and visualization of the sensor readings. The textile is highly durable and strikingly responsive with little signal-to-noise ratio. It features inherent favorable properties of…
Sonoflex is a flexible, textile dynamic speaker made without using a permanent magnet. Our design consists of two flat spiral coils, stacked on top of each other, and is based on an isolated, thin enameled copper wire. Our approach allows for thin, lightweight, and flexible embroidered devices and does not require high voltage as in…
Humans tend to touch surfaces out of curiosity about their tactile properties and persist in case of a pleasant response. An example is petting a cat. It looks pleasant to touch and when the cat’s response is positive (by purring) and a causal relation to the interaction is obvious, the interaction carries on. This connection…
We create pressure sensors, which are made of 100% textile components and work just like common FSR (Force-Sensing Resistor) sensors. Using an ordinary embroidery machine, our sensors can be rapidly applied to numerous pre-existing fabrics, in arbitrary shape and scale. Just as print FSR, they are straightforward to use in combination with basic readout electronics.…
As smart textiles are becoming more present in our lives, investigating and designing textile interfaces has started getting more and more attention. Still, very little research has been done on how to design interactive elements for non-wearable textile interfaces for the best recognition, perception, and interaction. In this paper, we present initial assumptions for designing…
TextileUX proposes the creation of a pressure-sensitive textile-based sensing platform to enable computational environments to be embedded seamlessly into our lives. In the 1990s, Mark Weiser and his colleagues at Xerox PARC introduced their vision of Ubiquitous Computing – a world in which “computers disappear into our everyday environments and weave themselves into our daily…
Over the last decade, touch sensing devices have become more and more important. Most researchers tried to improve multi-touch by introducing capacitive, resistive, or optical sensing devices. Although most of them provide already a multi-touch sensing, it is still often not possible to track input pressure efficiently. Tracking pen and touch separately in combination with…
While current systems for controlling industrial robots are very efficient, their programming interfaces are still too complicated, time-consuming, and cumbersome. In this paper, we present AHUMARI, a new human-robot interaction method for controlling and programming a robotic arm. With AHUMARI, operators are using a multi-modal programming operation technique that includes an optically tracked 3D stick,…
NiCE (Natural user Interfaces for Collaborative Environments) was one out of 14 Austrian Research Studios starting in October 2008. Over three years, we explored on novel large surfaces and new interaction techniques and embedded the into our daily-life environment (e.g. living room, conference room etc.). We primarily focused on new interaction methods and building new hardware. The…
