Fusion of Design and Technology in Creating Color-Changing Smart Home Textiles: A Practice-Based Approach

This paper describes a practice-based approach to creating an interactive, color-changing, smart dining tablecloth controlled via a mobile app by the user for the modern interior. By integrating intelligent weaving structures, materials, optic fibers and a radar sensor, the author applies a theoretical design process model to develop a smart textile product tailored toward general consumers’ intuitive operation. The colorchanging smart home textile prototype produced can be applied in other textiles products to satisfy consumers with diverse lifestyles and preferences. Both textile industry and textile design practitioners including textile design students can benefit from this study’s theoretical and practical contributions.