Sensing of Affective Gestures using Textiles

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Sensing of Affective Gestures using Textiles

• Cliff Randell
• Ian Anderson Henk Muller
• University of Bristol U.K.
• Andy Moore Phillippa Brock Sharon Baurley
• Central St Martins College, London U.K.

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The Emotional Wardrobe

• Challenge
• Design sensors and actuators to enable clothing
  to detect affective gestures transmit the sensed
  signals to a partner and recreate the sensations
  of the gestures in the partner's clothes.

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Affective Gestures

• Affect displays are movements of the body and
  face to show emotion
• Illustrators help to reinforce verbal messages
• Auto-contact behaviour (self-intimacies) are
  touching actions we direct towards ourselves ...
  that provide comfort because they are ...
  unconsciously mimed acts of being touched by
  someone else .

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The Sensor Sleeve

• Touching
• Stroking
• Hugging (self embrace)

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ElekTex
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Heathcoat F6354/A

• A plain ripstop weave with 5mm silver heatset
  stripes 14mm apart
• Used for signal routing, capacitive sensing (with
  QProx IC) and current sensing (with Darlington
  pairs).

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Philips Stretch Sensor
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Results
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Sensing of Affective Gestures using Textiles

• Thank you
• Questions?