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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"E-textiles"”.
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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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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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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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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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Analysis of a self-contained motion capture garment for e-textiles
Wearable computers and e-textiles are becoming increasingly widespread in today's society. Motion capture is one of the many potential applications for on-body electronic systems. Previous work has been performed at Virginia Tech's E-textiles Laboratory to design a framework for a self-contained …
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An Investigation of Craft Practice in the Design of Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles) for Embodied Interaction
… the distinct material qualities that comprise e-textiles have different roles in contributing to multisensory experiences. The convergence of computation, electronics, craft and design is identified as a field of creative practice in the contextual review. The tangible nature of e-textiles …
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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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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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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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Modeling of Power Consumption and Fault Tolerance for Electronic Textiles
… devices on the fabrics, creating electronic textiles (e-textiles). E-textiles can be either wearable or non-wearable. However, regardless of their form, e-textiles are placed in a tightly constrained design space requiring high computational performance, limited power consumption, and fault …
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A Validation of a Simulation Environment for Motion Sensing Electronic Textiles
… applications. In addition, the merging of textiles with electrical components, known as electronic textiles (e-textiles), allows for these sensors to be placed directly on a wearable fabric. Simulation allows for extensive application testing and verification before prototype development. …
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Inclusion of Fabric Properties in the Design of Electronic Textiles
… physical properties are important for creating e-textiles that look and feel like normal clothing and thus are truly wearable. A more detailed assessment of the weave of an e-textile and its effect on the electrical resistance of networks of uninsulated conductive fibers is also considered in both …
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An Application Framework for a Power-Aware Processor Architecture
… for event-driven applications. The E-textiles group at Virginia Tech proposed a novel data-flow processor architecture design to bridge the gap between event-driven applications and the target architecture. The architecture, although promising in terms of performance and …
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Electronic Textiles for Autonomous Location Awareness
… such application that can reap the benefits of e-textiles such that it can be widely deployed at a reasonable cost for assisting visually impaired people or to provide navigational help during emergency situations. This thesis describes an autonomous, wearable location awareness system that will …
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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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A low power, reconfigurable fabric body area network for healthcare applications
… describes a BAN that uses conductive fabrics (e-textiles) worn by the user to act as a power distribution and data communication network to sensors on the user's body. The network is controlled by a central hub in the form of a Base Station, which can either be a standalone device or can be …
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Development of the core technology for the creation of electronically-active, smart yarn
The general use of textiles began twenty-seven thousand years ago. However, today, textiles are used, not only in the production of clothing but are also found in numerous applications in medicine, the military, transport, construction sectors and in many industrial applications. Normally textiles …
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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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Activity Recognition using Singular Value Decomposition
A wearable device that accurately records a user's daily activities is of substantial value. It can be used to enhance medical monitoring by maintaining a diary that lists what a person was doing and for how long. The design of a wearable system to record context such as activity recognition is …
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