Can interactive textiles influence a novice’s throwing technique?

Interactive Electronic Textiles

MEOLI, DINA. Interactive Electronic Textiles: Technologies, Applications, Opportunities, and Market Potential. (Under the direction of Dr. Traci May-Plumlee.) The developing area of interactive electronic textiles is generating an abundance of literature within the textile industry. Presently, researchers in this area are working toward the development of interactive touch and voice activated w...

Interactive Party Textiles

This paper describes the idea of using context aware soft furnishing for decorations. Textile has the ability to easily change the experience of an environment. This quality combined with the dynamics of ubiquitous computing and context awareness creates an interesting design space to investigate. The examples we show, a tablecloth and a drapery, are designed for use on festive and social event...

Javelin Throwing Technique: A Biomechanical Study

The purpose of this study was to analyze by correlational methods the biomechanical factors involved in achieving the maximal distance thrown in the javelin event. Six athlete from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh India were filmed by a two high speed Canon Legaria SF-10, 8.1 Mp cameras in a field setting with (1/2000 shutter speed and at 30-60fps). The cameras were set-up on a rigid tripod a...

KinectBalls: An Interactive Tool for Ball Throwing Games

We present a tool that was developed in the context of the first author’s masters project. The tool implements an interactive computer game combining the real and the virtual world in a seamless way. The player interacts with the game by throwing balls towards a wall on which a virtual 3D scene is projected. Using the Kinect 3D sensor, we compute and predict the trajectory, speed and position o...

Interactive real-time three-dimensional visualisation of virtual textiles