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Understanding Requirements for Textile Input Devices Individually Tailored Interfaces within Home Environments

Authors:

Martina Ziefle,

Philipp Brauner,

Felix Heidrich,

Christian Möllering,

Claudia ArmbrüsterAuthors Info & Claims

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Aging and Assistive Environments - Volume 8515

Pages 587 - 598

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07446-7_57

Published: 22 June 2014 Publication History

Abstract

In the last few years, many countries showed an increased public awareness regarding the consequences of the demographic change, which presents considerable challenges on future health care systems in the next decades. As a framework of the research presented here, we introduce a currently running interdisciplinary research project in which novel textile input devices are to be developed, iteratively designed, and evaluated. In order to learn about the individual requirements for using smart textiles in a home context, we carried out a exploratory questionnaire study in which 72 participants aged 20-76 evaluated perceived benefits and barriers of smart textiles in the home context. Results show a first insight into user experience and the general willingness to adopt smart textile input devices. Also, the perceived suitability of functions to be controlled by those novel input devices as well as the reported appropriateness of different rooms and general device styles into which smart input devices could be integrated were collected. Results show, overall, a high willingness of participants to use smart textiles as input devices.

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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Aging and Assistive Environments - Volume 8515

June 2014

802 pages

ISBN:9783319074450

Editors:
Constantine Stephanidis
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas FORTHInstitute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Greece
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Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas FORTHInstitute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Greece

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Melo BAndrade RDarin TSantos CBento Villela MRios da Hora Rodrigues Kde Gois Ribeiro Darin T(2022)Longitudinal user experience studies in the IoT domainProceedings of the 21st Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3554364.3559135(1-13)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2022
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Brauner Pvan Heek JZiefle MHamdan NBorchers JSubramanian SSteimle JDachselt RMartinez Plasencia DGrossman T(2017)Interactive FUrniTUREProceedings of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces10.1145/3132272.3134128(151-160)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3132272.3134128

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