Weaving Textile-form Interfaces: A Material-Driven Design Journey

Alice Buso; Holly McQuillan; Milou Voorwinden; Elvin Karana

doi:10.1145/3563657.3596086

Weaving Textile-form Interfaces: A Material-Driven Design Journey

Alice Buso, Holly McQuillan, Milou Voorwinden, Elvin Karana

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-9893-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596086
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2023 Companion - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 10 Jul 2023 → 14 Jul 2023

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Conference	2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2023 Companion
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	10/07/23 → 14/07/23

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

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Textile-form Interfaces
weaving
HCI textiles
Material-Driven Design
design tools
prototyping

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