I/O Braid: Interactive Cords Using Touch-Sensing Textiles and Fiber Optics

See our latest E-textile work: I/O Braid is an interactive textile cord with embedded sensing and visuals. It senses user’s proximity, touch, and twist, while embedded fiber optics enable spiraling light feedback. Alex Olwal, Jon Moeller, Greg Priest-Dorman, Thad Starner, Ben Carroll Publication: I/O Braid: Scalable Touch-Sensitive Lighted Cords Using Spiraling, Repeating Sensing Textiles and Fiber Optics. Proceedings of UIST 2018 - Best Demo Award (ACM Symposium on User Inte