Throwing buddy: solving sensor challenges through soft-good construction, design, and fabric selection

Wearable technology projects sometimes present complex problems, which are hard to solve through computer science solutions alone. Our interdisciplinary team met such a problem in the form of near infrared sensor noise due to fabric interference. We met the challenge through software/hardware solutions, but also strategic fabric selection and soft-good construction. This case study shows how incorporating everyone's expertise on an interdisciplinary team can afford solutions, which better accomplish the goals of a project than individual disciplines could alone.