Conformal, Seamless, Sustainable: Multimorphic Textile-forms as a Material-Driven Design Approach for HCI

Conformal, Seamless, Sustainable: Multimorphic Textile-forms as a Material-Driven Design Approach for HCI

McQuillan, H.L. (TU Delft Emerging Materials)
Karana, E. (TU Delft Emerging Materials)

2023

Technology embeddedness in HCI textiles has great potential for enabling novel interactions and enriched experiences, but unless carefully designed, could inadvertently worsen HCI’s sustainability problem. In an attempt to bridge sustainable debates and practical material-driven scholarship in HCI, we propose Multimorphic Textile-forms (MMTF), as a design approach developed through a lens of multiplicity and extended life cycles, that facilitate change in both design/production and use-time via the simultaneous thinking of the qualities and behaviour of material and form. We provide a number of cases, textile-form methods and vocabulary to enable exploration in this emerging design space. MMTF grants insights into textiles as complex material systems whose behaviour can be tuned across material, interaction and ecological scales for conformal, seamless, and sustainable outcomes.

HCI textiles
Sustainability
Textile-form
Material-driven design
Multimorphic textile-forms
Materials experience.

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:93abc2e8-7b1f-4aa9-b188-b1601616838a

https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581156

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

978-1-4503-9421-5

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23).

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2023 H.L. McQuillan, E. Karana