Weaving Textile-form Interfaces

A Material-Driven Design Journey

Conference paper (2023)

Authors

A. Buso Emerging Materials - IDE
H.L. McQuillan Materials and Manufacturing - IDE
M. Voorwinden Materials and Manufacturing - IDE
E. Karana Avans University of Applied Sciences, Emerging Materials - IDE
Research Group
Emerging Materials (IDE) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 A. Buso, H.L. McQuillan, M. Voorwinden, E. Karana
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596086
Prototyping Design tools Weaving Material-Driven Design HCI textiles Textile-form Interfaces
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

Department

Sustainable Design Engineering

Research Group

Emerging Materials

Abstract

A woven textile-form is a form that is constructed simultaneously as the textile is woven. Interfaces designed with this approach hold undisclosed potential for rich interactions. However, the design of woven textile-form interfaces requires specialised tacit knowledge, which is limited even in craft and practice spaces; and it is therefore inaccessible to HCI designers. To bridge this gap, we present the material-driven journey of a multidisciplinary team to design a woven textile-form interface using various techniques such as paper models and diagrams to design for multi-layer weaving. Replacing traditional yarns with conductive yarn, we achieved woven textile-forms with electronic sensing capabilities. By outlining our process, the pictorial highlights the challenges and opportunities of textile-form thinking for HCI designers. Additionally, its printed version serves as a ‘paper prototyping tool’ for designers to gain hands-on experience developing textile-form interfaces.