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In this paper, we explore gaps in the user experience of using circuit boards in motion-monitored smart clothing. We focus on the effects of board location on the user’s motion while wearing the smart garment by analyzing a motion capture dataset to ...

The selection of appropriate clothing to match one's daily life is an important ritual for individuals across the globe. But this can be a Herculean task, especially for the visually impaired. Together with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) ...

Wearable devices have received tremendous interest in fitness and personal assistance sectors. Yet most are still worn as auxiliary hardware; falling short in ubiquity and convenience. We examine the potential of a novel deformable wearable device that ...

The creation of e-textile swatches is a common practice for documenting material experiments, sharing techniques with other practitioners, and for concept ideation. The Creative Interactions Lab has developed a system that turns e-textile swatches into ...

Smart garment and wearable e-textile prototypes are difficult to co-design because of the variety of expertise needed (garment design, sewing skills, hardware prototyping, and software programming). To help with this, we developed a toolkit for ...

Sensing edema or swelling in the body is a parameter of interest for many clinical and cosmetic applications of wearable technology. Edema creates heightened sensitivity to pressure points, making soft textile-based sensors particularly attractive. ...

The influence of the textile substrate on the performance of a textile-based strain sensor has not been well understood or characterized in many wearable sensor evaluations. The underlying textile has its own anisotropic mechanical behaviors due to its ...

Wearable technologies are body-worn devices, including smart clothes, e-textiles, and accessories. Wearables embed computational capabilities in garments to provide information, services and resources for end users. By being continuously worn, promptly ...

To examine creative smart clothing design for sports and fitness a fastest growing wearable market, the current study examined an interactive cycling outfit incorporating solar powered LED sensor lights. The completed garment design contributes to eco-...

Sense is a responsive garment that visualizes the global phenomenon of coral bleaching. Sense examines the current scientific shift in which technology converges with biology and embody the beauty, power and fragility of nature. This project explores ...

This work searches to explore the potential of textile sensing systems as a new modality of capturing social behaviour. Hereby, the focus lies on evaluating the performance of embedded pressure sensors as reliable detectors for social cues, such as ...

Body posture is a good indicator of, amongst other things, people's state of arousal, focus of attention and level of interest in a conversation. Posture is conventionally measured by observation and hand coding of videos or, more recently, through ...

Many smart clothing concepts are appearing in research and industry, encompassing disparate disciplines, inhabiting many forms. However, few situated in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecology. Moreover, adding wireless data processing capability can ...

Lumière is a jacket inspired from an automobile's signaling blinkers by allowing bikers to increase their visibility eliminating the need for hand signaling. The jacket was made of 90% silver based particle-free conductive ink for comfort, lightweight, ...

Stitched methods of e-textile fabrication offer durability and flexibility benefits, as well as relatively un-constrained layout patterns. The ability to affix discrete component packages without a PCB substrate would improve the overall flexibility and ...

We present a new method for building wearable electronic and sensor systems in which all components are permanently integrated directly into garments in high volume except for the battery. We discuss the design and construction of the first such fully-...

Establishing a range of sizes for apparel that can effectively fit the body shapes of a diverse population is a complex task, that for ready-to-wear (RTW) apparel is often reduced to a solution that is cost-feasible, if not optimal. While prototype ...

The field of wearable technology has undergone significant growth in the last few years. Along with this growth come trends in consumer application development, which may be indicative of structural influences on the design and development of products ...

We investigate a generic fabric material as basis for resistive pressure and bio-impedance sensors and apply the fabric in a shirt collar for swallowing spotting. A pilot study confirmed the signal performance of both sensor types.

Fleurtech is a transformable dress that incorporates servomechanisms to accentuate the length of skirts. It can be used as a long or mini dress in one item that also allows for versatility and flexibility in varied contexts and body sizes. This design ...