TY - JOUR
T1 - GesFabri
T2 - Exploring Affordances and Experience of Textile Interfaces for Gesture-based Interaction
AU - Jiang, Mengqi
AU - Nanjappan, Vijayakumar
AU - Liang, Hai Ning
AU - Ten Bhömer, Martijn
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the reviewers for their valuable comments and helpful suggestions and the Committee Member who guided the revision of our paper. We also want to thank the participants for their time. This work is supported in part by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) Key Special Fund (KSF-A-03) and XJTLU Research Development Fund (RDF-17-01-54).
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PY - 2022/6/17
Y1 - 2022/6/17
N2 - Textile interfaces are of interest to ubiquitous computing as they are easy to carry and manipulate. However, interesting questions remain about what type of natural gestures people make when interacting with textile interfaces and their emotional response to this interaction. We introduce GesFabri, a set of five interactive textile interfaces with distinct textures, created to investigate the intuitive interaction gestures and accompanied the emotional experience. This research sought to (1) design textile interfaces with intuitive gesture affordance, (2) explore the emotional effects of the developed gesture-based interfaces under four feedback modes (touch-only, visual feedback, audio feedback, multisensory feedback). The experimental results verify our hypotheses that (1) textile texture could provide natural gesture affordances; (2) the GesFabri interfaces' feedback mode was the main factor in the differences of emotional valence, arousal, GSR; and (3) both gesture-based interaction on textiles and the feedback mode had an impact on user emotions. These results highlight the gesture affordances of the e-Textile interfaces and contribute to a better understanding of the user experience when interacting with gesture-based textile interfaces.
AB - Textile interfaces are of interest to ubiquitous computing as they are easy to carry and manipulate. However, interesting questions remain about what type of natural gestures people make when interacting with textile interfaces and their emotional response to this interaction. We introduce GesFabri, a set of five interactive textile interfaces with distinct textures, created to investigate the intuitive interaction gestures and accompanied the emotional experience. This research sought to (1) design textile interfaces with intuitive gesture affordance, (2) explore the emotional effects of the developed gesture-based interfaces under four feedback modes (touch-only, visual feedback, audio feedback, multisensory feedback). The experimental results verify our hypotheses that (1) textile texture could provide natural gesture affordances; (2) the GesFabri interfaces' feedback mode was the main factor in the differences of emotional valence, arousal, GSR; and (3) both gesture-based interaction on textiles and the feedback mode had an impact on user emotions. These results highlight the gesture affordances of the e-Textile interfaces and contribute to a better understanding of the user experience when interacting with gesture-based textile interfaces.
KW - affordance
KW - e-Textiles
KW - emotion
KW - gesture interface
KW - interactive textiles
KW - texture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132800301&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3534522
DO - 10.1145/3534522
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85132800301
SN - 2573-0142
VL - 6
JO - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
JF - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
IS - EICS
M1 - 168
ER -