A long fascination with the idea of a fabric that could measure and capture the forces upon your body (but also the forces of your body on others) has led to a series of developments of techniques for resistive force-sensing structures in fabrics. Most recently, we have created 鈥淎 Fabric that Remembers" as an exhibition piece to be displayed at Accenture Labs in San Francisco. The fabric can measure how hard it is being pressed in six different locations and includes all of the circuitry required such that you can just plug it into a controller. We also wrote a networking protocol and visualizer to computational 鈥渟ee鈥 the touch in real-time.

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    • Laura Devendorf听and听Chad Di Lauro. 2019. Adapting Double Weaving and Yarn Plying Techniques for Smart Textiles Applications. In听Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Tangible and Embodied/Embedded Interaction听(TEI 鈥19), p. 77-85听听听(Tempe, Arizona, USA鈥擬arch 17-20, 2019).