LightCloth: Senseable Illuminating Optical Fiber Cloth for Creating Interactive Surfaces
Sunao Hashimoto, Ryohei Suzuki, Youichi Kamiyama, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi
Abstract
We introduce an input and output device that enables illumination, bi-directional data communication, and position sensing on a soft cloth. This "LightCloth" is woven from diffusive optical fibers. Since the fibers are arranged in parallel, the cloth has one-dimensional position information. Sensor-emitter pairs attached to bundles of contiguous fibers enable bundle-specific light input and output. We developed a prototype system that allows full-color illumination and 8-bit data input by infrared signals. We present as an application a chair with a LightCloth cover whose illumination pattern is specified using an infrared light pen. Here we describe the implementation details of the device and discuss possible interactions using the device.
Publication
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Sunao Hashimoto, Ryohei Suzuki, Youichi Kamiyama, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi,
"LightCloth: Senseable Illuminating Optical Fiber Cloth for Creating Interactive Surfaces",
The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), Notes and Video Showcase, 2013
