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User requirements for wearable smart textiles: does the usage context matter (medical vs. sports)?

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Julia van Heek,

Anne Kathrin Schaar,

Bianka Trevisan,

Patrycja Bosowski,

Martina ZiefleAuthors Info & Claims

PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Pages 205 - 209

https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255179

Published: 20 May 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Wearable smart textiles are a promising approach to provide health related services (e.g., permanent monitoring of vital parameters), and can be used in different context (such as sports or health care). But so far, smart textiles [ST] have not significantly penetrated the market. To identify possible reasons, the acceptance of important stakeholders must be investigated. This paper offers a first step in this direction by presenting a questionnaire study on user requirements of smart wearable textiles. To find out whether there is a generic attitude towards ST, this study is focused on a comparison of user requirements in two settings, sport and health care, as two central fields of application for this technology.

First results show that there are differences in the evaluation of requirements of ST pertaining to ease of use, permanent information provision about one's health status, data security as well as the design of such textiles, based on the usage context.

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PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 2014

459 pages

ISBN:9781631900112

General Chair:
Andreas Hein
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
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Program Chairs:
Susanne Boll
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
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Friedrich Köhler
Charité, Berlin, Germany

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Gan YWang TJavaheri AMomeni-Ortner EDehghani MHosseinzadeh MRawassizadeh R(2021)11 Years with WearablesProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/34480965:1(1-26)Online publication date: 30-Mar-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448096

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