Smart curtain as interactive display in living space

Soft Speakers: Digital Embroidering of DIY Customizable Fabric Actuators

“…Researchers have explored the potential of interactive furniture and soft furnishing at home, with examples ranging from hard objects such as tables [9], chairs [42] and lamps [21] to soft furnishing such as upholstered chairs [28], sofas [22], carpets [46], table-cloths [23,49] and curtains [48]. Instead of introducing new gadgets and devices to our living spaces, such interactive designs augmented pre-existing home objects with sensing and/or actuation within the fabric of our surrounding environment itself.…”

“…Such prior work on interactive furniture focused on exploring user experience in interacting and/or living with such everyday things as computational objects. Findings showed how embedding interactivity within everyday artifacts can support social engagement [21,23,48], self-reflection [9,22,46] and self-expression [49]. The interactivity embedded included soft sensing [23] and feedback in the form of display of information [42,48] or actuation (such as motion, colour-change [22,46], pattern-change [9] and shape-change [23]).…”

“…Findings showed how embedding interactivity within everyday artifacts can support social engagement [21,23,48], self-reflection [9,22,46] and self-expression [49]. The interactivity embedded included soft sensing [23] and feedback in the form of display of information [42,48] or actuation (such as motion, colour-change [22,46], pattern-change [9] and shape-change [23]). However, previous work on embedding audio and haptic feedback in interactive furniture and soft homeware is yet to be explored.…”

Towards gadget-free internet services: A roadmap of the Naked world

“…User authentication is carried out through face recognition and the tv programms can be controlled through hand gestures as described in [19]. Another example is the smart curtain [20] that interacts with users through touching and moving.…”