TY - GEN
T1 - IntelliTex
T2 - 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024
AU - Peng, Yuecheng
AU - Yan, Danchang
AU - Chen, Haotian
AU - Yang, Yue
AU - Tao, Ye
AU - Song, Weitao
AU - Sun, Lingyun
AU - Wang, Guanyun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/5/11
Y1 - 2024/5/11
N2 - We present IntelliTex, a low-cost and highly accessible double-coating fabrication method for washable and reusable functional textiles with customized input functionalities. Specifically, off-the-shelf textiles are firstly coated with conductive carbon black using pen ink, which endows textiles with rich sensing capabilities, such as pressure, stretch, slide, and temperature. Secondly, textiles are coated with polyurethane to enhance the sensing stability over wash cycles for good reusability. To support user customization, we enrich the design space of double-coating by exploring various coating methods and diverse textiles to be coated. We further contribute a comprehensive library of input components and an online document to make our approach accessible to novice users. Finally, five application examples and a user study showcase the versatile functionalities and user accessibility of our method, with which we hope to support designers, makers, and researchers to easily create functional textiles ready to use in everyday life.
AB - We present IntelliTex, a low-cost and highly accessible double-coating fabrication method for washable and reusable functional textiles with customized input functionalities. Specifically, off-the-shelf textiles are firstly coated with conductive carbon black using pen ink, which endows textiles with rich sensing capabilities, such as pressure, stretch, slide, and temperature. Secondly, textiles are coated with polyurethane to enhance the sensing stability over wash cycles for good reusability. To support user customization, we enrich the design space of double-coating by exploring various coating methods and diverse textiles to be coated. We further contribute a comprehensive library of input components and an online document to make our approach accessible to novice users. Finally, five application examples and a user study showcase the versatile functionalities and user accessibility of our method, with which we hope to support designers, makers, and researchers to easily create functional textiles ready to use in everyday life.
KW - E-Textile
KW - Personal Fabrication
KW - Textile Coatings
KW - Textile Sensors
KW - Wearables
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85194857832&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3613904.3642759
DO - 10.1145/3613904.3642759
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85194857832
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 11 May 2024 through 16 May 2024
ER -