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Fig. 79 Furniture design [8]
The hardware, consisting of a plastic sheet with laser-cut heater wiring, nine temperature sensors, a
controller unit and a laptop, is hidden inside the two furniture pieces. When the temperature is raised
above the threshold value of the temperature value, the software detects that a cup has been placed
on the fabric [8].
Photochromic
A team at the Interactive Institute in Sweden is working on a project named ‘Using Color-Changing
Textiles as a Computer Graphics Display’. The researchers used a fabric made out of photochromical
threads as a display which can be written over and over again. A computer controlled UV-lamp was
utilized as a writing tool.
The Swedish project ‘Fabrication’ at the Interactive Institute explores how aesthetic decoration and
information can work together. Therefore they are creating fabrics that change patterns from time to
time by combining textile materials with dynamic properties, such as chromic, electroluminescent and
conductive materials. For instance, the group designed an ‘Information curtain’ which works on the
basis of photochromical treated threads and the curtain changes colour from white to coloured when
the sun rises [72, 146].
Fig. 80 Dynamic textile materials within the project Fabrication
Other chromic material
The thesis project ‘Fashion Victims’ is an initiation of designers from the Interaction Design Institute
Ivrea in Italy. The idea is to denounce social problems, as electronic pollution, in fashion by changing
colour patterns in the fabric. If the wearer nears for instance a cell phone or a wireless network, he/she
will be warned about this pollution by a pattern that slowly spreads over the fabric. The intensity and
frequency of the electromagnetic radiation are reflected in the colour and density of the pattern
appearing on the clothes.
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