Textile Progress: Wearable Electronic Textiles
Transcript of Textile Progress: Wearable Electronic Textiles
Textile Progress:Wearable
Electronic Textiles
Jane Wood / David Tyler / Tasneem Sabir / Chloe McDonnell / Nick
Whittaker / Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem
The Textile Institute
Professional body for industry people / organisations
Set up in Manchester in 1910 / Royal charter granted in 1925
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Textile Progress: Wearable Electronic Textiles
• Vol 51, no 4.
• Manchester Fashion Institute
• Department of Computing and Mathematics
• University of Manchester – Department of Materials
What are smart textiles in apparel?
SMART textiles:
“sense, react and adapt to the human
body or external environment“
Conductive yarns and threads
• Metallics
• Blends
• Intrinsically conducting polymers
• Polymer coatings
• Metallic / polymer hybrids
• Printed conductive links
Fashioningtech.com
Connections
• Studs (poppers & snaps)
• Jack
• USB
• Embroidery
• Conductive adhesives
• Conductive inks
• Soldered joins
Textile – based sensors and electrodes
• Bio (ECG / EMG)
• Physical (temperature / motion)
• Chemical (glucose / lactic acid)
Unsplash: @tcooper86
Power
• Batteries
• Supercapacitors
• Energy harvesting
• Wireless power transfer
Unsplash: @john_cameron
Garment development
• Anthropometrics and fit
• Fabrics
• Garment construction
Unsplash: @Kira auf der Heide
Product development
Studiolab.nl
• Linear model not suitable for this type of product
• User centred approaches are required