Best Paper Honorable Mention
Intellitex: Fabricating Low-cost and Washable Functional Textiles Using a Double-coating Process
CHI '24 · ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HCI
Research communication
Prototyping
Data visualization
The Research
IntelliTex proposed a fabrication method that bridges materials science and everyday use. Functional textiles — fabrics that sense pressure, touch, and temperature — have long required materials expertise to build. IntelliTex changes that with a two-step coating process any maker can replicate.
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RELATED WORK
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WORKFLOWOVERVIEW
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MATERIAL MECHANISM
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INPUT EVALUATION
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FABRICATE WORKFLOW
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COMPONENT LIBRARY
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APPLICATIONS
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USER TEST & FUTURE W...
My Role & Personal Reflection
My role sat at the intersection of human factors and research communication: I led the user study validating accessibility, designed with two application prototypes, and owned all data visualization and video production for the paper.
Reading literature carefully to locate where a field's boundaries actually sit.
Moving fast inside uncertainty: prototype, fail, and recalibrate without losing the thread.
Sitting with a problem long enough to really understand it, even when it resists quick answers.
Taking a complex system and making it legible (findings only matter if others can follow them).
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