LookingOutwards-03

Learning Human-environment Interactions using Conformal Tactile Textiles details Sense Textiles, a project in 2021 constructed by Yiyue Luo, Yunzhu Li, Pratyusha Sharma, Wan Shou, Kui Wu, Michael Foshey, Beichen Li, Tomás Palacios, Antonio Torralba, and Wojciech Matusik. It was quite fascinating to see how a need in the medical and scientific field could prompt the creation of something that mimicked and monitored human-environment interactions. In addition, it was also quite fascinating to see how these results could be used to apply to human behavior and predicting almost psychologically-related fields. To the best of my knowledge, the algorithm that comprised it utilized artificial intelligence to identify human poses and different interactions with its environment through sensory textiles. The creators, albeit focusing on the more technical aspects of the textile, did have the sense to make it so that the textile looked somewhat aesthetically pleasing. The form was nice, the graphics demonstrated with clarity what the effects of the sense textile accomplished.

More on the project here