With the e-textile industry still in its infancy, an opportunity exists to establish design standards that facilitate disassembly, recycling and reuse of used yarn and conductive thread. Unfabricate demonstrates one such approach with a design that makes unraveling for reuse quick and easy.

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Publications

  • Shanel WuÌýandÌýLaura Devendorf. 2020. Unfabricate: Designing Smart Textiles for Disassembly. InÌýProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsÌý(CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–14. DOI:Ìý(Honolulu, Hawaii (virtual) – April 25-30, 2020).

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