Institute of Textile Chemistry and Textile Physics, Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Hoechsterstrasse 73, A-6850, Dornbirn, Austria (e-mail: [email protected]; phone: +43-5572-28533; fax: +43-5572-28629) 2 Textiles – Garment Technology and Fashion Design Faculty, Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam Member of European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE), www.ep...

Technologically-friendly and user-friendly textile products, which can make daily life more convenient and comfortable, are progressively popular in modern society. Going along with the advanced development of innovative technology, textile clothing is no longer only used as body shielding for protection, warmth keeping at cold weather and aesthetic enhancing for fashion design. Furthermore, it...

E-textile technology is rapidly progressing, allowing for the development of truly wearable computers as well as very large-scale computing textiles. Efficient development of applications on etextiles will require significant software services support. This paper analyzes two representative e-textile applications for their software service requirements. Based on this analysis, three services pa...

Textiles and computational technology share a common background in the early days of automation and industrial production. Today, we see a new opportunity for these two, by now, rather disparate areas to be joined in the search for new design spaces for everyday things. It is the ambition of this paper to outline this new design space and to sketch a design and research program for investigatin...