Second Skin: an exploration of eTextile stretch circuits on the body

TY - GEN

T1 - Second Skin

T2 - 11th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

AU - Freire, Rachel

AU - Honnet, Cedric

AU - Strohmeier, Paul

N1 - Conference code: 11

PY - 2017/3/20

Y1 - 2017/3/20

N2 - Second Skin is a stretch electronic textile (eTextile) garment that adapts to the shape of the body. It is designed as both a provocative outer shell and a functioning undergarment, or foundation garment. Using elastic materials and building on techniques from cutting edge sportswear manufacturing, it facilitates wearable electronics which can recede from the users attention. We consider Second Skin as a platform that other researchers can use to add functionality of their own. In our exhibit, people can interact with a prototype version of Second Skin as well as with material samples to gain a better understanding of its look, feel and material capabilities.

AB - Second Skin is a stretch electronic textile (eTextile) garment that adapts to the shape of the body. It is designed as both a provocative outer shell and a functioning undergarment, or foundation garment. Using elastic materials and building on techniques from cutting edge sportswear manufacturing, it facilitates wearable electronics which can recede from the users attention. We consider Second Skin as a platform that other researchers can use to add functionality of their own. In our exhibit, people can interact with a prototype version of Second Skin as well as with material samples to gain a better understanding of its look, feel and material capabilities.

U2 - 10.1145/3024969.3025054

DO - 10.1145/3024969.3025054

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 653

EP - 658

BT - Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 20 March 2017 through 23 March 2017

ER -