Tactile perceptions of digital textiles: A design research approach

Current interactive media presentations of textiles provide an impoverished communication of their 'textile hand', that is their weight, drape, how they feel to touch. These are complex properties experienced through the visual, tactile, auditory and proprioceptive senses and are currently...

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Main Authors: Atkinson, Doug, Orzechowski, P., Petreca, B., Bianchi-Berthouze, N., Watkins, P., Baurley, S., Padilla, S., Chantler, M.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58451
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author Atkinson, Doug
Orzechowski, P.
Petreca, B.
Bianchi-Berthouze, N.
Watkins, P.
Baurley, S.
Padilla, S.
Chantler, M.
author_facet Atkinson, Doug
Orzechowski, P.
Petreca, B.
Bianchi-Berthouze, N.
Watkins, P.
Baurley, S.
Padilla, S.
Chantler, M.
author_sort Atkinson, Doug
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description Current interactive media presentations of textiles provide an impoverished communication of their 'textile hand', that is their weight, drape, how they feel to touch. These are complex properties experienced through the visual, tactile, auditory and proprioceptive senses and are currently lost when textile materials are presented in interactive video. This paper offers a new perspective from which the production of multi-touch interactive video representations of the tactile qualities of materials is considered. Through an understanding of hand properties of textiles and how people inherently touch and handle them, we are able to develop methods to animate and bring these properties alive using design methods. Observational studies were conducted, noting gestures consumers used to evaluate textile hand. Replicating the appropriate textile deformations for these gestures in interactive video was explored as a design problem. The resulting digital textile swatches and their interactive behavior were then evaluated for their ability to communicate tactile qualities similar to those of the real textiles. Copyright © 2013 ACM.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-584512017-11-24T05:46:21Z Tactile perceptions of digital textiles: A design research approach Atkinson, Doug Orzechowski, P. Petreca, B. Bianchi-Berthouze, N. Watkins, P. Baurley, S. Padilla, S. Chantler, M. Current interactive media presentations of textiles provide an impoverished communication of their 'textile hand', that is their weight, drape, how they feel to touch. These are complex properties experienced through the visual, tactile, auditory and proprioceptive senses and are currently lost when textile materials are presented in interactive video. This paper offers a new perspective from which the production of multi-touch interactive video representations of the tactile qualities of materials is considered. Through an understanding of hand properties of textiles and how people inherently touch and handle them, we are able to develop methods to animate and bring these properties alive using design methods. Observational studies were conducted, noting gestures consumers used to evaluate textile hand. Replicating the appropriate textile deformations for these gestures in interactive video was explored as a design problem. The resulting digital textile swatches and their interactive behavior were then evaluated for their ability to communicate tactile qualities similar to those of the real textiles. Copyright © 2013 ACM. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58451 10.1145/2470654.2466221 restricted
spellingShingle Atkinson, Doug
Orzechowski, P.
Petreca, B.
Bianchi-Berthouze, N.
Watkins, P.
Baurley, S.
Padilla, S.
Chantler, M.
Tactile perceptions of digital textiles: A design research approach
title Tactile perceptions of digital textiles: A design research approach
title_full Tactile perceptions of digital textiles: A design research approach
title_fullStr Tactile perceptions of digital textiles: A design research approach
title_full_unstemmed Tactile perceptions of digital textiles: A design research approach
title_short Tactile perceptions of digital textiles: A design research approach
title_sort tactile perceptions of digital textiles: a design research approach
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58451