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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Electronic textile"”.
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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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Flexible-stretchable woven electronic textile system : a tailored multi-modal bodysuit for spatiotemporal physiological and physical activity monitoring
The rapid advance of electronic devices and fabrication technologies have further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Several challenges remain, as most of the current efforts in textile electronics focus on 'niche' applications and lack of sensing modalities, as well as large-scale …
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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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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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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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A soft circuit curriculum to promote technological self-efficacy
… in hands-on 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 …
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Electronic Textiles for Autonomous Location Awareness
The mature textile industry coupled with our familiarity and comfort level with fabrics 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 …
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Design of a Power-aware Dataflow Processor Architecture
… dataflow processor architecture targeted for the electronic textile computing space. The processor architecture has no instructions, and handles multiple events inherently without deploying software methods. This thesis also shows that the power-aware implementation reduces the overall static …
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Textile Macroelectronics: Architecting Sensate and Computational Fabrics across Scales
Textiles are omnipresent and among the oldest forms of art and culture in human civilization. They serve as our protective skin, the interface between our bodies and the environment, and a medium for self-expression and collective experience. As electronics become more compliant, miniaturized, and …
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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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Designing textile-based wearable on-body electronic interfaces utilizing vibro-tactile proprioceptive display
… dissertation, I examine methods for creating textile-based interfaces supporting effective on-body interaction and robust manufacturing techniques. Using these textile interface techniques I created prototypes to explore the human factors and constraints surrounding methods for interacting …
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From elastic electrodes to fabric systems
Textile-based electronics hold promise for wearable sensors and devices, as well as flexible and conformable electronics. In recent years, research has focused on realizing specific devices or even system level functions within a single fiber. Harnessing thermal drawing, significant developments in …
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Craft-Focused Electronic Musical Instrument Building: Exploring DIY Textiles and Hybrid Craft Techniques in Sound Arts Practice
… was to explore the concept of a craft focused electronic musical instrument building practice, prioritising textile handcraft materials, techniques and aesthetics in the process of creating new electronic musical instruments and sound artwork. A range of DIY textile crafts and hybrid craft …
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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 …