Pinstripe: Eyes-free continuous input anywhere on interactive clothing

The key idea of Pinstripe is to build an user interface upon two affordances of textiles: grasping and deforming. Most clothes exhibit loose folds in different areas when worn, and Pinstripe makes use of this fact: It lets wearers provide input by pinching a part of their clothing between their thumb and another finger, creating a fold in the garment, and then rolling this fold between their fingers.
It is a textile user interface element for eyes-free, continuous value input on smart garments that uses pinching and rolling a piece of cloth between your fingers. Input granularity can be controlled by the amount of cloth pinched. Pinstripe input elements are invisible, and can be included across large areas of a garment. Pinstripe thus addresses several problems previously identified in the placement and operation of textile UI elements on smart clothing.

Team: Thorsten Karrer, Leonhard Lichtschlag, Moritz Wittenhagen

More information on the original Pinstripe project page

• T. Karrer, M. Wittenhagen, L. Lichtschlag, F. Heller, and J. Borchers, “Pinstripe: Eyes-free Continuous Input on Interactive Clothing,” in CHI ’11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2011, p. 1313–1322.
  [Bibtex]

  @inproceedings{karrer2011a,
  address = {Vancouver, Canada},
  author = {Thorsten Karrer and Moritz Wittenhagen and Leonhard Lichtschlag and Florian Heller and Jan Borchers},
  booktitle = {CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  document_type = {InProceedings},
  doi = {10.1145/1978942.1979137},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-0228-9},
  keywords = {paper},
  major = {1},
  month = {May},
  movie = {http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/videos/pinstripe/pinstripe.mov},
  pages = {1313--1322},
  pdf = {http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/materials/publications/karrer2011a.pdf},
  project = {pinstripe},
  publisher = {ACM},
  timestamp = {20110502},
  title = {Pinstripe: Eyes-free Continuous Input on Interactive Clothing},
  year = {2011},
  bdsk-url-1 = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979137}}

• T. Karrer, M. Wittenhagen, F. Heller, and J. Borchers, “Pinstripe: Eyes-free Continuous Input Anywhere on Interactive Clothing,” in UIST ’10: Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, New York, NY, 2010, p. 429–430.
  [Bibtex]

  @inproceedings{karrer2010b,
  address = {New York, NY},
  author = {Thorsten Karrer and Moritz Wittenhagen and Florian Heller and Jan Borchers},
  booktitle = {UIST '10: Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology},
  document_type = {inproceedings},
  doi = {10.1145/1866218.1866255},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-0462-7},
  keywords = {poster},
  month = {October},
  pages = {429--430},
  pdf = {http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/materials/publications/karrer2010b.pdf},
  project = {pinstripe},
  timestamp = {20101003},
  title = {Pinstripe: Eyes-free Continuous Input Anywhere on Interactive Clothing},
  type = {inproceedings},
  year = {2010},
  bdsk-url-1 = {https://doi.org/10.1145/1866218.1866255}}