KnitDermis

Required reading for a seminar course.

KnitDermis

The guy pitching this in class said something on skin interfaces, which I heard of.

I’ll go in order that I’ve read is helpful, front, back, save the middle for last.

shape-memory allow micro-springs

Why didn’t is see that coming? 😄

It looks like someone is able to make a gesture and the knit captures that gesture.. with SMAs? If true, the first example of SMAs being able to not only deliver a signal to the user but to receive or detect a signal from the user. Which is way more interesting in my opinion.. if true. Let’s continue.

stretchable

Can you detect a stretch?!

underexplored body locations

The more I read the more I find the Wearability project, Giermpre 1998 a little overrated. The pods, you think this is the gold standard, foundational work. And it is in some ways, but not as much as I first thought.

delivering sensations

I didn’t suspect this had much power at first. But Dr Foo proved me.. unaware.

I feel like wearability began with Pentium notebooks in messenger bags. And I think the Giermpre 1998 pods was a big step forward. With this, I feel like we stepped forward again.

high-resolution outputs are often … not body conformable.

What’s he thinking of? I’m still a little suspect of compression resolution. I need to read more on this topic.

challenging to combine different techniques for designing richer haptic sensation.

Agree.

diameter of less than a millimeter, making them analogous to yarn

Wow.

brushing gestures.

I think I read something in the Psychophysical elements of Wearability about something in the skin that makes this kind of sensation possible or easy to recreate.

like a second skin.

Mic drop.

a range of body locations under-explored by other works.

effectiveness and comfort.

unpack the personal meanings and social functions KnitDermis interfaces faster within one’s everyday dress.

This reminds me of the idea of dynamic geometry. This makes me feel like we’re actually close to that! Its clear to me that people favor different geometries of clothing for different times and places.

Related work

There’s a lot of references here. Fun!

enhancing knit fabrics’ ability to serve as input sensors.

This is it.

SMA wire … “tendons” in knit structures have demonstrated a range of 3D mechanical movements.

Wow.


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