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Evaluating capacitive touch input on clothes

Authors:

Albrecht Schmidt,

Susanna Paasovaara,

Arto Puikkonen,

Jonna HäkkiläAuthors Info & Claims

MobileHCI '08: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services

Pages 81 - 90

https://doi.org/10.1145/1409240.1409250

Published: 02 September 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Wearable computing and smart clothing have attracted a lot of attention in the last years. For a variety of applications, it can be seen as potential future direction of mobile user interfaces. In this paper, we concentrate on usability and applicability issues concerned with capacitive touch input on clothing. To be able to perform user studies, we built a generic platform for attaching, e.g., capacitive sensors of different types. On top of that, several prototypes of wearable accessories and clothing and implemented various application scenarios. We report on two studies we undertook with these implementations with a user group randomly sampled at a shopping mall. We provide a significant set of guidelines and lessons learned that emerged from our experiences and those studies. Thus, developers of similar projects have to put major efforts into minimizing the delay between button activation and feedback and to make location and identification of controls and their function as simple and quick as possible. Issues that have to be treated in all designs include the requirement of one-handed interaction and that, even for minimal functionality, to find a general solution with regard to layout and button-to-function mapping is hardly possible. Additionally, in order to generate a satisfactory user experience good usability must be combined with aesthetical factors.

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Evaluating capacitive touch input on clothes
1. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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MobileHCI '08: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services

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DOI:10.1145/1409240

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