LightCloth: senseable illuminating optical fiber cloth for creating interactive surfaces

Authors:
Sunao Hashimoto;Ryohei Suzuki;Youichi Kamiyama;Masahiko Inami;Takeo Igarashi
Affiliations:
JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project, Bunkyo, Japan;JST ERATO Igarashi & The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project, Bunkyo, Japan;JST ERATO Igarashi & Keio University, Yokohama City, Japan;JST ERATO Igarashi & The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper introduces 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.