PhD Thesis
2022, Hernandez, L. An Investigation of Craft Practice in the Design of Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles) for Embodied Interaction, Academy of Innovation and Research, Falmouth University, Cornwall.
Journal Articles
2025 Farshid Rayhan 1, Jitesh Joshi 1, Guangyu Ren 1, Lucie Hernandez 2, Bruna Petreca 2, Sharon Baurley 2, Nadia Berthouze 1, Youngjun Cho 1,*. Advancing Textile Damage Segmentation: A Novel RGBT Dataset and Thermal Frequency Normalization, Sensors 2025, 25(7), 2306.
2024 Hernandez, L. Petreca, B. Baurley, S. Bianchi-Berthouze, N. Cho, Y. Examining clothing repair practices, core competences, techniques, tools and community structures involved in extending the life of garments, International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles, 3(1):99-121, Intellect. https://doi.org/10.1386/sft_00041_1
2021 Hernandez, L Introducing A Framework For Crafting E-Textiles: Exploring A Material Investigation Into Technology, Journal of Textile Design, Research and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2021.1994207
Pre-Published Journal Articles
2025 Hernandez, L. Petreca, B. Baurley, S. Bianchi-Berthouze, Liu, Y, Nygren, M. The Repair Toolkit: Investigating the design of a toolkit to reveal the characteristics and features of a clothes repair practice, Target journal: International Journal of Design.
Exhibitions & Installations
2026 Practising Eco-Social Futures: The VOICE Artist Showcase, RCA, London.
2024 Regenerative Fashion Hub. Group exhibition & innovative research; Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London.
2023 London Repair Week. ‘Repair, Technology and You’. Exhibition of repair technology, RCA, London.
2022 Regenerative Fashion Hub 1. TCC Digital Tools Showcase; The Lab E20, London.
2018 Textile Stories: Interactive Sonic-Textile Installation, Helston Makes it!, Helston Museum, Cornwall
2017 Touch Connection: Multi-sensory Exhibit; DataAche Conference, Radiant Gallery, Plymouth
2016 Touchplay: Crafting Material Affinities, 20th International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC/Ubicomp ’16, Heidelberg, Germany
2015 Soundplay, Interactive Sonic-Textile Exhibit. Work-in-progress, Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol
2011 Spectrum, L. Hernandez, E.Love, Urban Kinetic Research Group, Kinetica Art Fair, London
2003 Live Space, L. Hernandez, M.Reiser, J. Vippond, C. Rohumaa, Watermans Art Centre, London
Conference Presentations and Proceedings
2026 Yifu Liu; Tao Bi; Chuang Yu; Lucie F Hernandez; Bruna Beatriz Petreca; Minna Nygren; Sharon Baurley; Youngjun Cho; Nadia Berthouze. The RepairBot Framework: Touch-Aware Conversational Agent for Hands-on Clothes Repair. CHI ’26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article No.: 370, Pages 1 – 25 https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.379170
2025 Hernandez, L. Designing E-textile practice samplers to increase participation in clothes repair, FutureScan 2025, Leicester.
2023 Constructing E-textile Prototypes to Inspire Improvised Behaviour, EKSIG, Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge, Design Research Society, Milan
2022 Hernandez, L. Smart Sock Feasibility Study, Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles, Nottingham, UK, Nov 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2023030011
2019 Greinke, B et. al. Social Sustainability Approaches in Electronic Textile Craft Communities, 3rd PLATE Conference, Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-16726
2019 Hernandez, L, Touch Acoustics: Reflections On Crafting A Sonic Textile Interface, Textile Intersections, Loughborough University. https://doi.org/10.17028/rd.lboro.9741263.v1
2019 Hernandez, L, Resonant Threads: Materialising Stories from the Community, Making Futures: Crafting a Sustainable Modernity: Towards a Maker Aesthetics of Production & Consumption.
2018 Hernandez, L. Touch Connection: A Vibrotactile, Textile Prototype, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, pp136-139, TEI ’18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173293
2017 Hernandez, L. Uncovering Digital Craft Methods in the Design of Enhanced Objects and Surfaces, Alive. Active. Adaptive: Proceedings of International Conference on Experiential Knowledge and Emerging Materials (EKSIG 2017), Delft, the Netherlands, pp. 327-337.
2016 Hernandez, L. Touchplay: Crafting Material Affinities, 20th International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC/Ubicomp ’16, Heidelberg, Germany.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2968219.2971345
2016 Reflecting Design Intentions in a Hybrid Material Practice. Paper presented at NWCDTP, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
2015 Hackney, F. with Tyzlik-Carver, M. Hernandez, L., Griffith, D., Berghoff, C, Future Thinking for Social Living. Research Project and Publication, Falmouth University Research and Innovation Fund.
2014 Hernandez, L, Crafting Data Stories Conference Proceedings, All Makers Now? Craft Values in 21st Century Production. Falmouth University.
Workshops and Talks
2025 Hernandez, L. Patterns for Textile Repair. Festival of Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts, Sheffield
2025 Hernandez, L. Skills and Samplers for Clothes Repair. Workshop and talk, Ecological Citizens Festival, Museum of Making, Derby.
2024 Experiencing Repair: Applying a repair toolkit to foster social innovation through garment mending practices. Sustainability in Practice: DIY Repair, Reuse and Innovation, Nov 2024, Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia.
2024 Hernandez, L. Petreca, B. Baurley, S. Bianchi-Berthouze. Toolkit Validation Workshop to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Repair Toolkit that Reveals the Core Features of a Clothing Repair Process, RCA
2023 Hernandez, L. Petreca, B. Baurley, S. Bianchi-Berthouze, N. Cho, Y. Joshi, J. Liu, Y. Ren, G. Bi, T. Chen, K. Repair, Technology and You. An Immersive Workshop Exploring the Future of Repair Using Creative Digital Tools, ReLondon Repair Week, RCA.
2017 Towards an Expressive E-textile Design Process with Weight and Surface Properties for Embodied Interaction. Kettley, S, Downes, T, Battersby, S, Harrigan, K, Hernandez, L. College of Art, Architecture, Design and Humanities Annual Research Conference, Nottingham Trent University
Design Outputs, Prototypes & Creative Artefacts
Design interventions developed through participatory and co-design research, used for workshops, analysis, public engagement, and knowledge exchange.
- Co-design toolkits: Card-based toolkits designed to prompt reflection, storytelling, and collaborative sense-making in workshops.
- Physical prototypes: Wearable and non-wearable textile artefacts (e-textiles, soft circuits, fabric sensors) developed to explore iterative processes, embodied interaction & sensory engagements.
- Speculative design objects: Low-fidelity and functional prototypes used as design props to test future scenarios around future technologies, repair, care, and circular systems.
- Digital–physical resources: Hybrid outputs coupling digital tutorials & instructional materials with physical artefacts for skill-sharing and community-led repair practices.
- Participatory artworks: Cooperative textile and craft-based artworks co-created with participants, used as both research data and public engagement outputs.
- Exhibition-ready outputs: Artefacts and documentation produced for public-facing events, exhibitions, and stakeholder engagement.