Gardeene! Textile Controls for the Home Environment

Submitted by philipp on Thu, 08/20/2020 - 16:15
Abstract
Textile controls so far, have mostly been envisioned to be integrated to clothing. In our environment, however, much more textile interaction surfaces are available. In this paper, we present a capacitive textile sensor, seamlessly integrated into a motorized curtain. While the basic functionality is simply to open and close the curtain, its design allows a much richer gestural interaction.
Heller, F., Oßmann, L., Al-huda Hamdan, N., Brauner, P., Van Heek, J., Scheulen, K., Möllering, C., Großen, L., Witsch, R., Ziefle, M., Gries, T., Borchers, J.: Gardeene! Textile Controls for the Home Environment. In: Short paper at Mensch und Computer 2016. Gesellschaft für Informatik (2016).
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.18420/muc2016-mci-0239

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Figure 1: Possible ways of interacting with an augmented curtain. The gestures on the left and on the right are taken from traditional curtains, whereas the middle one relates more to vertical persian blinds. In this paper, we built on the interaction on the right.
Figure 2: Left: The sensor pattern. Conductive thread is embroidered in a waved shape with variable spacing. In the areas with small spacing, only small gestures are required to open the curtain completely. In areas with large spacing, the recognition is more fine-grained, thus, more precise commands can be issued. The sensor area is highlighted in blue. Right: our prototype with the embroidered sensing threads.