Designing textile-based wearable on-body electronic interfaces utilizing vibro-tactile proprioceptive display

With the advent of commercially available heads-up-displays and other mobile information systems, there arises a need for on-body interfaces that can be used accurately and quickly without visual attention. In this dissertation, I examine methods for creating textile-based interfaces supporting effective on-body interaction and robust manufacturing techniques. Using these textile interface techniques I created prototypes to explore the human factors and constraints surrounding methods for interacting with electronic textile touch input. Specifically I looked at how the structure of the textile interfaces can take advantage of the human body’s active touch and passive touch capabilities. In one study I examined how the addition of raised embroidery affords greater opportunities for active touch interactions. I helped test raised embroidery with both multitouch and single touch interactions to improve accuracy and speed of use. In a second larger study of 104 participants, I explored how the addition of active touch and passive touch affect the accuracy and time-to-touch of the on-body textile-based prototype. This study shows that the combination of active touch and vibro-tactile passive touch improves the accuracy (by almost 9% overall and 17% in the center of the interface) and time to touch for non-visual on-body interfaces.

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Interactive Computing

Grantor dc:publisher

Georgia Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Zeagler, Charles Clinton

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jackson, Melody Moore

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Starner, Thad
• Mynatt, Elizabeth
• Dunne, Lucy
• Martin, Tom

• Wearable technology
• Wearable computing
• On-body interfaces
• Human factors
• Interaction

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1853/60765

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.gatech.edu:1853/60765