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A co-design toolkit for wearable e-textiles

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UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Pages 363 - 366

https://doi.org/10.1145/3341162.3349303

Published: 09 September 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Individuals with mobility disabilities face physical and social barriers due to a lack of accessible clothing. E-textiles garments and smart clothing could help make garments more accessible by incorporating assistive technologies directly into clothing, but there are limited methods for co-designing prototypes so that users can be involved in the design process. This is due to the specialized knowledge needed for designing smart clothing (garment construction, e-textiles, computing). To help with these issues I am developing a co-design toolkit for wearable e-textiles called Wearable Bits. Wearable Bits expands upon the swatchbook tradition in e-textiles by making swatches that can connect to form any wearable garment. This document covers the proposed studies I will be doing to evaluate the co-design toolkit and the expected contributions of this thesis project.

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Index Terms

A co-design toolkit for wearable e-textiles
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interactive systems and tools
      1. User interface toolkits

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UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

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DOI:10.1145/3341162

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