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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"E-textile"”.
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E-textile Learning Scaffolds: Supports for Novices Learning E-textile Concepts and Techniques
Electronic textiles (e-textiles) combine the conductive properties of metallic threads with increasingly small computers and microcontrollers to create textiles that are interactive. E-textiles enable new opportunities such as devices that are strong yet flexible, and the ability to use more …
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An Ambulatory Monitoring Algorithm to Unify Diverse E-Textile Garments
… system. This algorithm, to be deployed on an e-textile garment, represents the enabling step in creating a wide range of garments that can use the same classifier without having to re-train for different sensor types. This flexible operation is made possible by basing the classifier on an …
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Automatically Locating Sensor Position on an E-textile Garment Via Pattern Recognition
Electronic textiles are a sound platform for wearable computing. Many applications have been devised that use sensors placed on these textiles for fields such as medical monitoring and military use or for display purposes. Most of these applications require that the sensors have known locations for …
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E-textile Connections: catalysts for social connectedness and challenging loneliness in later life
… <br/><br/>This research advances electronic textiles (e-textiles) as catalysts for social connectedness in later life. In this thesis traditional soft textiles are combined with digital components (including power, light, sound and small computers) as tangible and sensory vehicles for social …
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Modeling of Power Consumption and Fault Tolerance for Electronic Textiles
The developments in textile technology now enable the weaving of conductive wires into the fabrics. This allows the introduction of electronic components such as sensors, actuators and computational devices on the fabrics, creating electronic textiles (e-textiles). E-textiles can be either wearable …
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Inclusion of Fabric Properties in the Design of Electronic Textiles
… impact of fabric properties on the electronic textile (e-textile) design process. Specifically, properties such as weave pattern, drape, tinsel wire placement and weight are evaluated as physical aspects of an e-textile system within an expanded design flow and fabric synthesis. A textile's …
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A soft circuit curriculum to promote technological self-efficacy
… activities, such as creating soft, electronic textile (e-textile) circuits. There is, however, a notable lack of instructional materials to support such learning experiences. I have developed a workshop facilitation guide which outlines five e-textile activities, accompanied by a collection of …
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Smart E-Textiles Integrated into Human Health Monitoring Systems
E-textiles, broadly defined as any textile that has electronic capabilities, are becoming the future of portable, wearable electronics for human performance and health monitoring. There are many applications of e-textiles in the health monitoring industry, where early detection and prevention of …
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Electronic Textiles for Motion Analysis
The union of electronics and textiles to form electronic textiles (e-textiles) provides a promising substrate upon which motion analysis applications can be developed and implemented. Familiarity with clothing allows sensors and computational elements to be naturally integrated into garments such …
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Something New, Something Old: Combining Conductive Fibers and Classical Tatting Techniques for Lace Structured Circuits
… of traditional craft and emerging e- textile materials. Tatting is a particularly durable method of creating lace by the use of sequential half-hitch knots and loops. This type of lace is fairly stiff, consisting of self-knotting rings and chains that form a design. There are …
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A self-contained motion capture platform for e-textiles
Wearable computers and e-textiles are increasingly prevalent in today's society. Motion capture is one of many potential applications for on-body electronic systems. Self-contained motion capture applications require information from sensors distributed throughout the body on a "smart" garment. …
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On Quaternions and Activity Classification Across Sensor Domains
… across sensor domains by considering an e-textile garment and provide the groundwork for transferring the e-textile garment to a vision-based classifier. The framework is comprised of three main components that enable the successful transfer of the body-worn system to the vision-based …
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Design of e-textiles for acoutsic applications
… integrating electronic components is known as e-textiles. This concept can be used to design applications involving different types of electronic components including sensors, digital signal processors, microcontrollers, color-changing fibers, and power sources. The adaptability of the textiles …
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Activity Recognition using Singular Value Decomposition
… to perform activity detection for a wearable e-textile system.
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Architectures for e-Textiles
The huge advancement in the textiles industry and the accurate control on the mechanization process coupled with cost-effective manufacturing offer an innovative environment for new electronic systems, namely electronic textiles. The abundance of fabrics in our regular life offers immense …
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subTextile : a construction kit for computationally enabled textiles
… the fields of wearable computing and electronic textiles. While wearable computing and electronic textiles seem superficially connected as fields of investigation, in fact they are currently widely separated. However, as the field of electronic textiles grows and matures, it has become apparent …
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Softwear: A Flexible Design Framework For Electronic Textile Systems
… and low cost fabrication techniques, electronic textiles (e-textiles) are an excellent platform for pervasive computing. Many e-textile applications are already available in the commercial, military, and academic domains, but most are very highly specialized and do not lend themselves easily to …
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An Investigation of Craft Practice in the Design of Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles) for Embodied Interaction
… materials and processes that could benefit e-textile design and development. It explores how ‘value’ can arise through innovative material combinations facilitated through collaborative partnerships, dialogue and joint construction. Findings from the portfolio of practical projects suggest …
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Monitoring breathing with smart fabrics
Wearable sensing technologies offer promising solutions for non-intrusive monitoring in healthcare, fitness, and assistive applications. This thesis investigates respiration monitoring using off-the-shelf, commercially available stretchable conductive fabric as the sensing element, eliminating the …
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Non-volatile organic memory devices: from design to applications
… in different industrial processes, including e-textile and smart packaging. As regards transistor memory devices, highly flexible Organic Field-Effect Transistor (OFET)-based memory elements with excellent mechanical stability and high retention time were developed. As main innovation with …
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