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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Electronic Textiles"”.
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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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Electronic Textiles for Autonomous Location Awareness
… and the possibility of seamless integration of electronic components such as sensors, processors, and power sources in the fabric opens up a new dimension of computing. The electronic textile presents a suitable substrate over which numerous applications can be developed. Location awareness is …
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Inclusion of Fabric Properties in the Design of Electronic Textiles
… considers the 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 …
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Modeling of Power Consumption and Fault Tolerance for Electronic Textiles
… 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 or non-wearable. However, regardless of their form, e-textiles are placed in a …
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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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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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subTextile : a construction kit for computationally enabled textiles
As technology moves forward, electronics have enmeshed with every aspect of daily life. Some pioneers have also embraced electronics as a means of expression and exploration, creating the fields of wearable computing and electronic textiles. While wearable computing and electronic textiles seem …
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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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Activity Recognition Processing in a Self-Contained Wearable System
Electronic textiles provide an effective platform to contain wearable computing elements, especially components geared towards the application of activity recognition. An activity recogni tion system built into a wearable textile substrate can be utilized in a variety of areas including health …
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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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Threshold voltage in pentacene field effect transistors with parylene dielectric
… applications such as display backplanes, electronic textiles, and robotic skin. Besides the organic semiconductor itself, an important area in the development of OFETs is the gate dielectric material. In this thesis the organic polymer parylene is studied as a gate dielectric for pentacene …
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Softwear: A Flexible Design Framework For Electronic Textile Systems
… ubiquity 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 …
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The Well-Dressed Spacecraft: Textiles for Cosmic Dust Metrology
… commonplace textile! This work brings the first electronic textiles to Low Earth Orbit, tracking advanced fabric sensor characterization from a tabletop laser accelerator, to a warehouse-scale electrostatic accelerator, to the walls of the International Space Station. There is, increasingly, …
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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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Stretchable, multimodal, large-area sensor arrays fabricated using excimer laser photoablation technologies
… for robotics, aerospace research and design, electronic textiles, tactile sensors for flexible displays, and low-cost sensors for consumer applications. These applications have a unique set of requirements, including support for multimodal sensory input, conformability to non-planar …
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Scalable Plasmonic Nanopixels
… wearable plasmonic devices including displays, electronic textiles, or sensors. The whole process is lithography-free and thus readily allows to be extended with large scale processing tools, such as roll-to-roll manufacturing. Furthermore, intriguing directional optical dynamics are …
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Design of a Multibus Data-Flow Processor Architecture
General purpose microcontrollers have been used as computational elements in various spheres of technology. Because of the distinct requirements of specific application areas, however, general purpose microcontrollers are not always the best solution. There is a need for specialized processor …
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Design of an Automation Framework for a Novel Data-Flow Processor Architecture
Improved process technology has resulted in the integration of computing elements into multiple application areas. General purpose micro-controllers are designed to assist in this integration through a flexible design. The application areas, however, are so diverse in nature that the general …
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E-textile Connections: catalysts for social connectedness and challenging loneliness in later life
… a softer touch. <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 …
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