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Gathering Textiles at CHI: Convening a Meeting to Share, Make, and Speculate

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: CHI is becoming home to an emerging community of researchers and practitioners engaging with textiles as a design and research material. This work is spread across a range of areas from digital fabrication to haptics. This workshop offers the opportunity for the broad community of HCI researchers to share techniques and ideas that underpin textile practices at CHI. Knitting, weaving, embroidery, hand-stitching, quilting, garment making, dying, felting, paper making, etc. offer distinct functional and aesthetic qualities while engaging similar modes of working. We propose this workshop to create a meeting place for CHI researchers engaging textiles in any capacity. We suggest a day of skill sharing and collective speculating grounded in the textiles techniques and histories of Japan.

Source: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA)

DOI: 10.1145/3706599.3706740

Authors: Kaori Ueda, Bine Roth, Laura Devendorf, Kristina Andersen, Irene Posch

Institutions: Kyoto Saga University of Arts, Royal College of Art, University of Colorado Boulder, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz

Language: English

Topic: Crafts, Textile, and Design

Subfield: Museology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: G1646744552