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One leg at a time: towards optimised design engineering of textile sensors in trousers

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Custom made textile sensors encounter design and manufacturing challenges that differ from conventional printed circuit board-based sensors. The field of e-textiles commonly deploys such sensors on the human body, meaning that overcoming these challenges are crucial for reliable sensor performance. In this paper, we present and evaluate the design of trousers with embedded fabric sensors. Two iterative prototypes were manufactured and tested in two user studies, focusing on mechanical aspects of the design for applications in capturing body movement within social interaction. We report on failures and risks of the design, and furthermore propose solutions for a more robust, yet soft wearable sensing system.

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UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
September 2019
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ISBN:9781450368698
DOI:10.1145/3341162
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  1. body centric computing
  2. body movement
  3. e-textiles
  4. sensor design
  5. soft circuitry

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  • (2021)The Matter of ToolsACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/342677628:1(1-38)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2021

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