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Connecting Textiles: Exploring Textile Interior Surfaces for Power Supply, Communication and User Interaction in the IoT

Frank Beruscha; Katharina Lorenz; Bodo Pahlke; Anke Königschulte; Serge Autexier; Annika Sabrina Schulz; Valérie Bartsch; Hendrik Leibrandt
In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT '22), November 7-10, 2022, Delft, Netherlands. International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT-2022), located at 12th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT '22), November 7-10, Delft, Netherlands, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11/2022.

Abstract

We investigated textile-integrated components for power supply, communication and user interaction in and on home interior surfaces. A wallpaper with an integrated functional layer serves as basic infrastructure for power supply. We developed patches as core interaction elements that integrate IoT functionality and can be freely positioned on the wallpaper. In addition to interacting with these patches, users can perform touch gestures directly on the wall- paper. We describe the iterative prototyping approach of these key components of ConText (Connecting Textiles), and present design guidelines. We report on the results of a user study that highlights the potential of ConText, and points on future development needs.

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