Xue, Jing;
Petreca, Bruna Beatriz;
Dawes, Christopher;
Obrist, Marianna;
(2023)
FabTouch: A Tool to Enable Communication and Design of Tactile and Affective Fabric Experiences.
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CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
(pp. p. 476).
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Abstract
The tactile experience of fabric is not only a sensory experience but also an affective one. Our choice of fabric products, like clothing, is often based on how they feel. Effectively communicating such experiences is crucial for designing tactile fabric experiences. However, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of the fabric tactile and affective experiences, preventing the development of tools to facilitate the communication of these experiences. In this paper, we examine the fabric experiences of 27 participants towards nine cotton samples. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods to create FabTouch, a novel tool to facilitate a dialogue in the design of fabric experiences. We found six phases of fabric touch experiences including fabric touch responses, sensory associations, and emotional responses. Initial feedback from designers suggested that FabTouch could enrich design processes both in practice and in education and can create inspiration for physical and digital design explorations.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | FabTouch: A Tool to Enable Communication and Design of Tactile and Affective Fabric Experiences |
| Event: | CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3544548.3581288 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581288 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Fabric; Touch; Tactile Experiences: Afective Responses; Diachronic and Synchronic Experiential Mapping; Multisensory Experiences. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10168792 |
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