@inproceedings{3d025d9a0aa249fe908199f889ac7a28,
title = "Tex(alive): A toolkit to explore temporal expressions in shape-changing textile interfaces",
abstract = "Shape-changing textile interfaces have the potential to create unique functions, expressions, and interactions in everyday artifacts. However, the technical expertise required to fabricate and interact with these interfaces limits designers from rapidly iterating through diverse textile expressions. This pictorial presents TEX(alive), a low-cost and open-source physical-digital toolkit to facilitate the creation of temporal expressions in textile interfaces. TEX(alive) comprises pneumatic actuators that can be interactively configured across a 3d printed grid structure on the textile. Creative sessions with seven designers show that TEX(alive) supports the exploration of temporality in textile interfaces, opening up a design space for unforeseen future application scenarios and alive-like expressions in material-driven design. Finally, we suggest coupling TEX(alive) with a computational simulation tool to allow designers to predict spatial shape change when the textile interface increases in size or complexity. ",
keywords = "design tools, material-driven design, pneumatics, shape-changing textile interfaces, temporality",
author = "{Martinez Castro}, {Jose Francisco} and Alice Buso and Jun Wu and Elvin Karana",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1145/3532106.3533515",
language = "English",
series = "DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",
pages = "1162--1176",
booktitle = "DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference",
address = "United States",
note = "2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing, DIS 2022 ; Conference date: 13-06-2022 Through 17-06-2022",
}