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Textile Integrated Wearable Technologies for Sports and Medical Applications

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Innovative and pervasive monitoring possibilities are given using textile integration of wearable computing components. We present the FitnessSHIRT (Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany) as one example of a textile integrated wearable computing device. Using the FitnessSHIRT, the electric activity of the human heart and breathing characteristics can be determined. Within this chapter, we give an overview of the market situation, current application scenarios, and related work. We describe the technology and algorithms behind the wearable FitnessSHIRT as well as current application areas in sports and medicine. Challenges using textile integrated wearable devices are stated and addressed in experiments or in explicit recommendations. The applicability of the FitnessSHIRT is shown in user studies in sports and medicine. This chapter is concluded with perspectives for textile integrated wearable devices.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Titus Czyz for his feedback to application scenarios in sports. This contribution was supported by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology as a part of the Bavarian project “Leistungszentrum Elektroniksysteme (LZE).” We thank Bjoern Schmitz, Ruslan Rybalko, Sven Feilner, and Andreas Huber for helpful discussion. We thank Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, BMBF, and DFG for financial support.

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    Heike Leutheuser, Stefan Gradl & Bjoern M. Eskofier

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen, Germany

    Nadine R. Lang, Matthias Struck, Andreas Tobola & Christian Hofmann

  3. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Lars Anneken

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Leutheuser, H. et al. (2017). Textile Integrated Wearable Technologies for Sports and Medical Applications. In: Schneegass, S., Amft, O. (eds) Smart Textiles. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50124-6_16

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