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UbiComp \/ ISWC 2023<\/span>
\nISWC <\/span>Design Exhibition
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The ISWC Design Exhibition is an ongoing event taking place from Tuesday the 10th until Thursday the 12th<\/strong>.<\/h5>\n<\/div>
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The ISWC 2023 Juried Design Exhibition is a captivating showcase of original works focusing on wearable technologies and innovations related to the human body. This exhibition celebrates the intersection of technology and the human form through a diverse array of creative contributions.<\/p>\n

Featured works will incorporate elements such as on-body sensing, sensor networks, responsive fashion technologies, body enhancements like bionic limbs and smart prosthetics, and wearables designed for professional use, mobile healthcare, entertainment, and more. Submissions that seamlessly combine functionality and aesthetics will be highlighted.<\/p>\n

The ISWC Design Exhibition will take place in the Coba Room.\u00a0<\/strong> The opening will take place before the conference welcome reception from 5:30 pm to 6:00 pm. Attendees can visit it during coffee breaks, and luncheons.<\/p>\n

The exhibition categories are:<\/p>\n

1) Functional: <\/strong>Highlighting wearables designed with a strong focus on practicality, addressing specific problems or needs through technological solutions.<\/p>\n

2) Aesthetic: <\/strong>Showcasing wearables that prioritize visual appeal and artistic impact achieved through innovative technology.<\/p>\n

3) Fiber Arts: <\/strong>This category encompasses non-wearable innovations that incorporate textiles or fibers, with an emphasis on either functionality or aesthetics.<\/p>\n

Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exceptional designs will receive recognition and awards in three categories: Aesthetic, Functional, and Fiber Art.<\/p>\n

Design Exhibits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
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Reconfigurable, Adhesive-Free, Wearable Skin Strain Device<\/td>Robert Pettys-Baker;Brad Holschuh<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Breezy the Calm Monster: Soft Toy Design Combined with Pervasive Technology to Teach Deep Breathing<\/td>Aisha F. Iskanderani;Edgar R. Rodriguez Ramirez;Annette M. E. Henderson;Catherine Caudwell<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MoCa'Collection: Normalizing Dynamic Textile Geometry with Capacitive Sensing in Design Centric Wearables<\/td>Daniel Gei\u00dfler;Esther Friederike Zahn;Hymalai Bello;Lala Shakti Swarup Ray;Emil Woop;Bo Zhou;Paul Lukowicz;Gesche Joost<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kirigami Antennas<\/td>Zoe Kaputa;Afroditi Psarra<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Designing Dissolving Wearables<\/td>Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez;Lily M Gabriel;Mikhaila Friske;Shanel Wu;Sasha De Koninck;Laura Devendorf;Mirela Alistar<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Privee: A Wearable for Real-Time Bladder Monitoring System<\/td>Ruoyu Zhang;Ruijie Fang;Chongzhou Fang;Houman Homayoun;Gozde Goncu Berk<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Social Prosthesis: Social Interaction Through 3D Dynamic Makeup<\/td>Morgan Chen;Jingwen Zhu;Hsin-Liu (Cindy) Kao<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Haikeus: Transmuting Ecological Grieving into Action<\/td>Galina Mihaleva;Abigail Dalton;Mary Fitzgerald;Abhik Chowdhury<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plug-and-Play Wearables: A Repositionable E-Textile Garment System to Support Custom Fit for Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Applications<\/td>Heidi Woelfle;Olaitan Adeleke;Niharikha Subash;Alireza Golgouneh;Brad Holschuh;Lucy E. Dunne<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weaving Augmented Reality Markers<\/td>Nikita Menon K. P.;Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez;Hannah Curran;Sasha De Koninck;Laura Devendorf<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BioSparks: Jewelry as Electrochemical Sweat Biosensors with Modular, Repurposing and Interchangeable Approaches<\/td>Shuyi Sun;Alejandra Ruiz;Sima Pirmoradi;Katia Vega<\/td><\/i><\/a><\/td>Design Exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div>
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BioSparks: Jewelry as Electrochemical Sweat Biosensors with Modular, Repurposing and Interchangeable Approaches<\/h4>\n

Shuyi Sun, Alejandra Ruiz, Sima Pirmoradi, Katia Vega
\nUniversity of California, Davis<\/p>\n

This paper presents BioSparks, a wearable device that detects glucose levels in sweat through electrochemical biosensors created with traditional jewelry techniques. It incorporates interchangeable electrodes that facilitates their replacement after their lifetime, and employs a repurposing method to reuse the discarded electrodes within the jewelry’s chain. The modular design enables the wearable to be placed on various body parts, including the neck, wrist and waist. The paper outlines our design considerations for Wearability Factors for Jewelry Biosensors, and the fabrication process combining traditional jewelry techniques and electrochemistry. Our technical evaluation shows the performance of our biosensor under ten different glucose concentrations.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Breezy the Calm Monster: Soft Toy Design Combined with Pervasive Technology to Teach Deep Breathing<\/h4>\n

Aisha F. Iskanderani, University of Wellington
\nEdgar R Rodr\u00edguez Ram\u00edrez, University of Wellington
\nAnnette M. E. Henderson, University of Auckland
\nCatherine Caudwell, University of Wellington<\/p>\n

Anger dysregulation can lead to aggression and peer rejection in early childhood. Anger episodes and temper tantrums frequently escalate, leaving parents and young children needing effective emotion regulation interventions. This research investigates how designing a playful interaction with ubiquitous technology can help parents teach young children emotion regulation strategies such as deep breathing. Breezy is a soft toy with an app and a storybook that helps parents and engages them in teaching deep breathing as an anger regulation strategy. The soft toy has sensory and physical features and can be held as a puppet, which helps young children to connect with the toy. The digital app addresses facial expressions and physiological components of emotions through sensory and interactive features that encourage identifying emotions. The storybook facilitates a familiar context for parents’ engagement through playful learning. The interactive system provides parents with opportunities to teach their young children to identify and label anger and practice and model age- appropriate breathing exercises. This research aims to inform the design of future educational and playful interactions for emotional competence skills, as well as to broaden their application and promote their use in homes.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Designing Dissolving Wearables<\/h4>\n

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, University of Colorado Boulder
\nLily M Gabriel, University of Colorado Boulder
\nMikhaila Friske, University of Colorado Boulder
\nShanel Wu, University of Colorado Boulder
\nSasha de Koninck, University of Colorado Boulder
\nLaura Devendorf, University of Colorado Boulder
\nMirela Alistar, University of Colorado Boulder<\/p>\n

Bio-based materials facilitate the development of more sustainable devices and wearables, expanding the range of design possibilities beyond conventional materials. Our work with biofoam explores one such quality, dissolving, as a unique affordance for designing and interacting with wearables. We developed techniques to make biofoam yarns, and used them to craft three wearables: “Seasonal Footwear,” a “Reveal Bralette,” and an “Unfolding Lace Top.” These wearables incorporate sections that dissolve in water, allowing customization to suit the user’s needs. These wearables illustrate short- term use cases, such as a one-time reveal or shape change. We explore this novel design space as sustainable ephemeral fashion, where bio-based dissolving materials enable revealing, transformative, and interactive functionalities.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Haikeus: Transmuting Ecological Grieving into Action<\/h4>\n

Galina Mihaleva, Arizona State University
\nMary Fitzgerald, Arizona State University
\nAbhik Chowdhury, Arizona State University
\nAbigail Dalton, Arizona State University<\/p>\n

Combined with the unprecedented stress of the COVID-19 crisis and the increase in social unrest, human-caused environmental disasters are having a profound impact on well-being, resulting in a dramatic spike in mental health issues. Studies are emerging daily around concepts of ecological grieving stress, depression, anxiety, and a host of emotions that are surfacing and increasing in our modern times. From eco-nostalgia to eco-anxiety and eco-grief, our responses to climate change, environmental devastation, and social unrest can prevent us from taking positive action, often leading to existential crises. Our proposed project, Haikeus: Transmuting Ecological Grieving into Action, works directly at the interface of some of humanity\u2019s wicked problems, which are complex, challenging to solve, and hard to fully understand. The aim of this project is to bring awareness and motivation for transmuting such an emotion into an action through the power of creativity. We further argue that the established methods could facilitate a more nuanced understanding of organizational barriers to communicate its potential value to proceed with the change.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Kirigami Antennas<\/h4>\n

Zoe Kaputa, University of Washington
\nAfroditi Psarra, University of Washington<\/p>\n

With the progression of technology as integrated into daily life, physical tech has become increasingly embedded or hidden from the user’s view. Because of this design change, many of the aesthetics that previously defined everyday technology have disappeared from the public eye. Our ability to connect the capability of technology with the spacial world it utilizes has disappeared with it. This notion is especially true for antenna design. An object that was once visible on cars, houses, and phones is now so embedded in the devices that use it that its technology is essentially formless. Kirigami Antennas is a research exploration centering on e-textile meta-materials, designing antennas that are cognizant of their use and relation to space. This collection of antennas are not embedded nor hidden. They instead borrow from the art of Kirigami to re-insert themselves into the 3D space from which they receive their signals. Through experimentation with Kirigami antenna shapes, we are able to design freestanding lace antennas that effectively receive electromagnetic signals at a wide range of frequencies, picking up AM, FM, and HAM radio, along with other data transmissions. Kirigami Antennas provides a space for experimentation with antennas as objects that help us reach and search through space.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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MoCa\u2019Collection: Normalizing Dynamic Textile Geometry with Capacitive Sensing in Design Centric Wearables<\/h4>\n

Daniel Gei\u00dfler, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
\nEsther Friederike Zahn, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
\nHymalai Bello, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
\nLala Shakti Swarup Ray, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
\nEmil Woop, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
\nBo Zhou, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
\nPaul Lukowicz, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
\nGesche Joost, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence<\/p>\n

In this work, we promote capacitive sensing as a versatile smart textile modality through a collection of functional wearable designs. Considering the large variety of possible garment design concepts, we outline an approach to implement smart sensing technology into garments while maintaining these diverse design possibilities. After introducing the basic functionalities of capacitive sensing and the process of designing and building a smart garment, we present an assortment of garments enabled by this technology within the MoCa\u2019Collection. Each of the projects serves a different purpose, built by people representing different backgrounds from electrical engineers, computer scientists, digital artists to smart fashion designers, starting from technical design over digital art to our latest design of a strongly design-oriented full-body capturing suit implementing the proposed technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Plug-and-Play Wearables: A Repositionable E-Textile Garment System to Support Custom Fit for Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Applications<\/h4>\n

Heidi Woelfle, University of Minnesota
\nOlaitan Adeleke, University of Minnesota
\nNiharikha Subash, University of Minnesota
\nAlireza Golgouneh, University of Minnesota
\nBrad Holschuh, University of Minnesota
\nLucy E. Dunne, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n

Fit of an e-textile garment has become increasingly important as more advanced wearable technology applications demand precise placement of sensors and actuators. Human anthropometry is complex and varied, and for many applications, a single e-textile garment cannot accurately fit a variety of users. One such example is lower-limb rehabilitation applications, which rely on precise placement of sensors and actuators with respect to joints and muscles for each individual user. Here, we present the development of a multi-layer, stretchable, flexible e-textile system, which affords quick and easy repositioning of components on the garment surface. Beyond custom fitting, this infrastructure also affords dynamic functionality of the garment, by adding and replacing sensors and actuators to enable a wide variety of applications.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Privee: A Wearable for Real-Time Bladder Monitoring System<\/h4>\n

Ruoyu Zhang, University of California, Davis
\nRuijie Fang, University of California, Davis
\nChongzhou Fang, University of California, Davis
\nHouman Homayoun, University of California, Davis
\nGozde Goncu Berk, University of California, Davis<\/p>\n

Urinary incontinence (UI) is a prevalent condition affecting millions of individuals worldwide, leadingto various physical, social, and psychological challenges that diminish their quality of life. Currentmanagement approaches primarily focus on containment rather than proactive monitoring andwarning systems. This paper presents the development and evaluation of a novel wearable technologycalled Privee, designed as an unobtrusive undergarment to monitor bladder fullness in real-time.Privee utilizes e-textile-based bioimpedance spectroscopy technology, which noninvasively assessesbladder fullness by analyzing the electrical properties of body tissues and fluids. The undergarmentincorporates eight embroidered electrodes and textile transmission lines seamlessly integrated into thefabric. By continuously monitoring the bioimpedance signals from the bladder, Privee provides real-time information about the bladder’s fullness level. This data is processed using a specialized algorithmto estimate the need for urination. The noninvasive nature of Privee eliminates the discomfort andrisks associated with invasive monitoring methods, offering a user-friendly and convenient solutionfor individuals with UI, overactive bladder, or post-operative care needs. This innovative technologyhas the potential to improve patients’ quality of life and optimize healthcare costs associated with UImanagement.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Reconfigurable, Adhesive-Free, Wearable Skin Strain Device<\/h4>\n

Robert Pettys-Baker, University of Minnesota
\nBrad Holschuh, University of Minnesota<\/p>\n

Skin-strain \u2013 the act of stretching the skin \u2013 is an interesting (but generally understudied) mode ofhaptic stimulation. Producing artificial skin strain on the body using a wearable device requires a clearunderstanding of the body product relationship between the device and the user. We present awearable device capable of creating dozens of unique skin strain experiences on the wearer through anovel shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator + reconfigurable hook-and-eye attachment architecture.Not only can this architecture create spatially- and temporally-customizable skin strain experiences, itdoes so without the use of temporary \/ permanent adhesives (a typical limitation of other skin straindevice designs). We present the iterative design process from early working prototypes to the mostrecently developed devices, including the underlying design criteria and decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Social Prosthesis: Social Interaction Through 3D Dynamic Makeup<\/h4>\n

Morgan Chen, Cornell University
\nJingwen Zhu, Cornell University
\nCindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Cornell University<\/p>\n

Prosthetic makeup is the use of prosthetic materials for cosmetic or makeup effects to extend the skinand features. Commonly used to simulate wounds or exaggerate physical characteristics, prostheticmakeup is usually created for film or theatrical purposes, rather than for everyday fashion or socialwearability. Social Prosthesis is a design project which aims to introduce interactivity, movement, andaesthetic within silicone prosthetics by providing design considerations and fabrication techniquesunique to on-face wearables. Through opening up opportunities for cosmetic expression andstorytelling through dynamic makeup, Social Prosthesis invokes the sociality of beauty\u2014the changeand movement that happens when we alter our appearances in contact with others.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Weaving Augmented Reality Markers<\/h4>\n

Nikita Menon K. P, University of Colorado Boulder
\nEldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, University of Colorado Boulder
\nHannah Curran, University of Colorado Boulder
\nSasha de Koninck, University of Colorado Boulder
\nLaura Devendorf, University of Colorado Boulder<\/p>\n

This paper presents the use of weaving as a technique to create functional augmented reality (AR)markers using different textile structures and colors. We conducted experiments with plain, twill, andsatin weaves, as well as varying colors in the warp, to test the effectiveness of the markers. Ourfindings show that weaving is a viable method for creating AR markers, and the software can detectmarkers even with varying colors and slightly misaligned quadrants. This work opens up newpossibilities for weaving and textile structures in AR design.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Exhibition Info-Guide<\/h3>\n

Click on the image below to learn more about individual exhibits as you browse through the exhibition gallery.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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