Scheming textiles: End-user programming for wearables

Abstract

This paper attempts to expand the landscape of wearable computing with button-schemer, an ldquoambient program readerrdquo that can be used to input program code directly from a computer screen or from specially bar-coded surfaces. The placement of programs for such a device can be made informal, creative, and practically ubiquitous, suggestive of ways to extend the traditional notions that wearables are to be worn, but not programmed away from a desktop computer.