Esther W. Foo, J. W. Lee, Crystal Compton, S. Ozbek, B. Holschuh
{"title":"User experiences of garment-based dynamic compression for novel haptic applications","authors":"Esther W. Foo, J. W. Lee, Crystal Compton, S. Ozbek, B. Holschuh","doi":"10.1145/3341163.3347732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3347732","url":null,"abstract":"Compression is a haptic stimulus used in medical interventions (e.g., compression stockings) and has the potential to be integrated into new research areas (e.g., immersive VR experiences, distributed notification mechanisms), yet remains largely understudied. This work investigates the user experience of compression garment technologies that are dynamic, remotely controllable, and low mass, to better address this research gap. Shape memory alloy-based compression garments, capable of creating spatially- and temporally- dynamic on-body compression, were designed and deployed in a user study (n=17, 8M/9F) to understand the effects of compression, and to draw insights for future compression-based applications. The major takeaways are: (1) importance of and sizing/fit, (2) individual/gender preferences and need for customizability, and (3) the relationship between context-specific stimulation and perception.","PeriodicalId":112916,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"11 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114119789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristine Kuprijanova, L. Fraguada, Elizabeth Esther Bigger
{"title":"ChakraSuit: experimental directed meditation wearable","authors":"Kristine Kuprijanova, L. Fraguada, Elizabeth Esther Bigger","doi":"10.1145/3341163.3346944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3346944","url":null,"abstract":"ChakraSuit is an experimental wearable which aids in finding the best location for meditation, enabling one to learn about the interaction between the natural environment, sound, and the body. The prototype continuously listens to ambient sounds, and translates the identified audio frequencies to vibration on several points along the spine which correspond to chakra points. The project consists of a jumpsuit, pocket, and harness with integrated electronics running on a Raspberry Pi W Zero.","PeriodicalId":112916,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127724627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Osamu Saisho, Shingo Tsukada, H. Nakashima, Hiroshi Imamura, K. Takaori
{"title":"Enhancing support for optimal muscle usage in sports: coaching and skill-improvement tracking with sEMG","authors":"Osamu Saisho, Shingo Tsukada, H. Nakashima, Hiroshi Imamura, K. Takaori","doi":"10.1145/3341163.3347722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3347722","url":null,"abstract":"Cardiopulmonary function and power as well as efficient motion skill are extremely important for athletes. Thanks to the latest sensing technology and smart devices, many researchers have focused on sports-skill analysis. Electromyography (EMG), in particular, is gaining attention as a method of understanding the power-generating process in motions. However, most existing applications using EMG have remained being one-time measurement. This is because athletes do not know how to use the results and how to measure their improvement. We propose a sports-skill-training framework with muscle-usage indicators based on EMG and an EMG live visualization system. With this framework, athletes can determine the skill they need to improve by focusing on skills whose indicators are poor, activate their muscles with live feedback to overcome weaknesses, and quantitatively measure their improvement as the improvement of the indicators during the activation training. We also verified the effect of coaching in this framework on cycling athletes. The experimental results quantitatively indicate the effectiveness of continuous skill training with our framework.","PeriodicalId":112916,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115524575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of the textile-sensor interface on stitched strain sensor performance","authors":"Ellen Dupler, Lucy E. Dunne","doi":"10.1145/3341163.3347717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3347717","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of the textile substrate on the performance of a textile-based strain sensor has not been well understood or characterized in many wearable sensor evaluations. The underlying textile has its own anisotropic mechanical behaviors due to its woven or knit fabrication process, and introduces non-trivial structural influences on integrated wearable strain sensors. This study considers stitched strain sensors of two stitch geometries, fabricated on two different knit fabrics, with the sensor stitched in different orientations with respect to the knit structure. The resulting mechanical and electrical performance is characterized under cyclic extension, as the angle of extension (relative to the fabric) is also incrementally changed. The results illustrate a shift from linear to non-linear mechanical behavior as fabric stiffness increases, and variations in behavior between stitch geometries. Results show that force direction and sensor placement both introduce variability in calculated elastic modulus, which affect sensor modeling (e.g. predicting applied force from sensor response). A novel stitch geometry (the chainstitch sensor) is characterized as having a higher gauge force and lower transverse sensitivity factor than the coverstitch sensor. This work offers insight into the textile-sensor interface and design implications for development of textile-based sensors.","PeriodicalId":112916,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129634431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Listening space: Satellite Ikats","authors":"Afroditi Psarra, Audrey Briot","doi":"10.1145/3341163.3346932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3346932","url":null,"abstract":"Listening Space is an artistic research that was born during the eTextile Spring Break camp that took place in upstate New York at the beginning of April 2019. Following their previous explorations of ecologies of transmissions and wanting to experiment with Software-Defined Radio, the authors, setup a DIY satellite tracking station and aimed at intercepting the NOAA weather satellite audiovisual transmissions. During the course of three days, they observed five satellite passes, intercepted successfully three transmissions and decoded the audio signals into images which they later knitted in order to create a textile archive of the transmissions. Conceptually the project seeks to explore transmissions ecologies as raw material for artistic exploration, to understand and re-imagine in poetic means, representations of audio and images broadcasted from space, while regarding knitted textiles as a physical medium for memory storage and archiving.","PeriodicalId":112916,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134479505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Doruk Yildirim, L. Fraguada, Elizabeth Esther Bigger
{"title":"DualSkin: ambient electric field sensing wearable","authors":"Doruk Yildirim, L. Fraguada, Elizabeth Esther Bigger","doi":"10.1145/3341163.3346931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3346931","url":null,"abstract":"Humans are capable of identifying and categorizing objects in their environment with the aid of their sensory organs. DualSkin is a wearable which equips the user with ambient electric field sensing. The aim of the project is to develop a new sense that will increase peripersonal space, alter the human perception and their relationship between electronic, organic and inorganic objects that surrounds our lives. Dual-Skin is a vest that uses a circuit which consists of embedded micro-controllers, sensors, and actuators. It uses capacitive sensors to sense surroundings and uses electrical stimulation as a feedback mechanism around the user's waist.","PeriodicalId":112916,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123801343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A wrist-worn motion evaluation system for fast and powerful down picking of heavy metal guitar","authors":"Soichiro Matsushita","doi":"10.1145/3341163.3347726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3347726","url":null,"abstract":"A fast and powerful down picking skill of rhythm guitar is crucial for heavy metal songs. At more than 400 beats per minute, which is a typical starting point for heavy metal songs, most players feel hard to keep the picking rhythm. In this paper, we propose a wrist-worn inertial motion tracking device for analyzing the guitar picking motion. A population test showed that a wrist twist angular velocity signal would give sufficient information on the picking timing to evaluate the accuracy of rhythm. It was also found that the power of sound had a strong correlation with the wrist twist angle and the upward linear acceleration signals. We developed a picking evaluation system by using characteristic motion parameters that informs the player of the speed, power, and smoothness of the picking motion. As a result, five out of eight beginners to play heavy metal guitar reached the speed of 400 beats per minute in a short training period.","PeriodicalId":112916,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124784280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"eTextiles: reviewing a practice through its tool/kits","authors":"I. Posch, L. Stark, G. Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1145/3341163.3347738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3347738","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic textiles, or eTextiles, and connected research and practice communities grew within and across diverse disciplines over the past 20 years. Initially evolving from academic investigations, eTextiles now play a growing role in both industry and education alike. While we are increasingly confronted with resulting eTextile artefacts, we lack a thorough understanding of the underlying making practices, and in particular what role toolkits play in framing, promoting and supporting creation practices. It is timely then to undertake a review of currently available eTextile tools and kits, discussing the technical, cultural and social expectations inscribed in these settings and how their design and technology impacts the emerging field of eTextiles. Here we compile the first overview of both academic research and popular available toolkits, as a basis for an analysis of potential strategies for future directions: how to diversify and professionalise the field and its community of practice.","PeriodicalId":112916,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114645257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Altered pinna: exploring shape change of pinna for perception and illusion of sound direction change","authors":"K. Shirota, R. Peiris, K. Minamizawa","doi":"10.1145/3341163.3347725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3347725","url":null,"abstract":"This study demonstrates that by opening and closing the human pinna, we can change the direction of sound perceived by humans. Each ear was independently transformed into a 100% open, 50% open, and 100% closed state, and all 9 combinations of these ear transformations were tested to evaluate the perceived direction of the sound output from 7 speakers placed 180 degrees around the subject. We demonstrate that by deforming the pinna, we could change the perception of the direction of sound, or make it illusory. We also found that except for 1 out of 7 speakers (or directions of sound), closing 100% of the ear on the side of the speaker where the sound is coming from and 50% of the ear on the other side of the speaker tends produce the most alteration to the perceived direction of sound.","PeriodicalId":112916,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116618998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facial expression recognition using ear canal transfer function","authors":"Takashi Amesaka, Hiroki Watanabe, M. Sugimoto","doi":"10.1145/3341163.3347747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3341163.3347747","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we propose a new input method for mobile and wearable computing using facial expressions. Facial muscle movements induce physical deformation in the ear canal. Our system utilizes such characteristics and estimates facial expressions using the ear canal transfer function (ECTF). Herein, a user puts on earphones with an equipped microphone that can record an internal sound of the ear canal. The system transmits ultrasonic band-limited swept sine signals and acquires the ECTF by analyzing the response. An important novelty feature of our method is that it is easy to incorporate into a product because the speaker and the microphone are equipped with many hearables, which is technically advanced electronic in-ear-device designed for multiple purposes. We investigated the performance of our proposed method for 21 facial expressions with 11 participants. Moreover, we proposed a signal correction method that reduces positional errors caused by attaching/detaching the device. The evaluation results confirmed that the f-score was 40.2% for the uncorrected signal method and 62.5% for the corrected signal method. We also investigated the practical performance of six facial expressions and confirmed that the f-score was 74.4% for the uncorrected signal method and 90.0% for the corrected signal method. We found the ECTF can be used for recognizing facial expressions with high accuracy equivalent to other related work.","PeriodicalId":112916,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115729533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}