Strike A Pose: Capturing Non-Verbal Behaviour with Textile Sensors

This work searches to explore the potential of textile sensing systems as a new modality of capturing social behaviour. Hereby, the focus lies on evaluating the performance of embedded pressure sensors as reliable detectors for social cues, such as postural states. We have designed chair covers and trousers that were evaluated in two studies. The results show that these relatively simple sensors can distinguish postures as well as different behavioural cues.