2013 e-textile swatchbook exchange

Abstract

The E-Textile Swatch Exchange is a platform for sharing physical work samples in the field of electronic textiles. The exchange wishes to emphasize the importance of physicality and quality workmanship in an increasingly digital world. Individuals and collaborative efforts participate in the exchange by submitting a unique swatch design of their own, and in turn receive a compiled collection of everybody else's swatches. This means that everybody participating needs to make as many multiples of their swatch as the total number of participants. There are no guidelines defining what the swatches could or should be, only that they relate to the field of E-Textiles.

Optimizing Pressure Matrices

“…Yoo and Pines demonstrate this approach in a 'center of pressure' sensor [34], however they chose a design which only supports input at discrete positions. Triangular interdigitated designs can also be found in white-papers and application notes for capacitive slider design [15,30] and are also common in the DIY community: They are being explored in Paris based textile hackerspace Datapaulette, they can be found in the web-archive by Satomi and Perner-Wilson [38], as Instructables by Freire [37] or in the eTextile swatchbook [11] (see also Figure 1). While triangular interdigitated designs are quite common, they are often justified based on intuition and -to the best of our knowledge -their effectiveness has never been evaluated.…”

zPatch

“…Various pressure based textile sensors exist in the research [14,27,34] and DIY community [5,15]. These sensors are typically used to infer the location of pressure events.…”

Creative exchange through joint responsibility: designing performances in multidisciplinary teams in the educational context

“…Even though initially the field mainly concerned computers, HCI has expanded to many other aspects of information technology design (Interaction Design Foundation, 2020). Recently, textile designers have started to collaborate with HCI practitioners to develop e-textiles (Hertenberger et al, 2014) and wearable technology solutions.…”