Paper-based wearable electronics

Posture Correction with Wearable Electronics

Wearable electronics technology has become very popular in recent years, and it is advancing. An important application of this technology is in health monitoring. I present an application of wearable electronics for posture correction, utilizing inertial sensors attached to certain parts of clothing. When bad posture is detected, the wearer is notified. Posture data can be collected by a nearby...

The Challenges of Wearable Electronics

Lifetime Aspects of Wearable Electronics

In the course of two European projects the endurance behavior of stretchable electronic substrates and of electronic textiles was investigated. The results have to a large extent been published already. In this work new analyses to the earlier results are presented. Straightforward analytical approaches are used to describe fatigue under cyclic mechanical loading in the two technologies. For st...

Contacting paper-based supercapacitors to printed electronics on paper substrates

Fiber-based generator for wearable electronics and mobile medication.

Smart garments for monitoring physiological and biomechanical signals of the human body are key sensors for personalized healthcare. However, they typically require bulky battery packs or have to be plugged into an electric plug in order to operate. Thus, a smart shirt that can extract energy from human body motions to run body-worn healthcare sensors is particularly desirable. Here, we demonst...