A new era of smart textiles has arisen

Smart textiles prototyping: Participating with new ideas

This paper outlines our work with children who use our smart textiles construction kit in a “living lab”. Our constructionist approach to participatory design with children is inspired by Allison Druin’s “Cooperative Inquiry”. The main idea is to not only develop software and hardware for and with children, but more importantly to enable insight and a rich learning experience via deep involveme...

Smart Textiles and Wearable Technology – A study of smart textiles in fashion and clothing

2 Foreword This report is the result of a study of the research field smart textiles, which has been carried out within the EU financed Baltic Fashion Project. The report gives an overview of projects combining smart textiles and clothing as a basis of discussions of how smart textile innovation could be introduced in fashion. The overview covers different projects, research as well as commerci...

Smart Textiles in Vehicles: A Foresight

After technical textiles and functional textiles, also smart textiles came into force a few years ago. The term ‘smart textiles’ covers a broad range. The application possibilities are only limited by our imagination and creativity. This paper gives an overview of the functions that can be achieved by smart textiles in general. In vehicles as well, smart textiles can introduce new features. Two...

Smart Textiles Toward a Wearable Motion System

This paper presents the development of an innovative measuring system devoted to the human movement analysis using smart textiles that are realized with electrically conductive elastomer composites (CEs). CEs show piezoresistive properties when a deformation is applied and in several applications CEs can be integrated into fabric or other flexible substrate as a strain sensor. Moreover, integra...

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