Development of a Knitted Strain Sensor for Health Monitoring Applications †

As an emerging technology, smart textiles have attracted attention for rehabilitation purposes to monitor heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, body posture and limb movements. Compared with traditional sensors, knitted sensors constructed from conductive yarns are breathable, stretchable and washable, and therefore, provide more...

Design of Wearable Finger Sensors for Rehabilitation Applications

As an emerging technology, smart textiles have attracted attention for rehabilitation purposes or to monitor heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, body posture, as well as limb movements. Traditional rigid sensors do not always provide the desired level of comfort, flexibility, and adaptability. To improve this, recent research focuses...

The unfolding of textileness in animated textiles:: An exploration of woven textile-forms

Designers of textile-based interactive systems tend to treat woven fabrics as static materials and lack deeper understandings of how the textile can be designed for responsive behaviours in artefacts. As a result, in most studies across design and HCI, textiles are employed as substrates for computational, biological, or smart materials. This...

Development of Low Hysteresis, Linear Weft-Knitted Strain Sensors for Smart Textile Applications

In recent years, knitted strain sensors have been developed that aim to achieve reliable sensing and high wearability, but they are associated with difficulties due to high hysteresis and low gauge factor (GF) values. This study investigated the electromechanical performance of the weft-knitted strain sensors with a systematic approach to...

Design of a modular interconnection system for smart textile applications

This graduation project set out to design a modular interconnection system for smart textile applications for Elitac Wearables, that is widely implementable, robust, durable, cleanable,cost-effective, more integrated in the textile carrier and ergonomically to wear. The Double Diamond Design Process methodology of the Design...

The interactive bodysuit: A full body monitoring system for physical therapy patients

This project focussed on the use of smart textiles for full body posture monitoring and exploring the potential of a tight fitting catsuit to measure posture close to the body. A full body monitoring system (FBMS) that is wearable and easy to use, was found to be most relevant in the domain of first line care physical therapy(PT). As the form of...

Design of a modular system for textile wearables

The thesis clarifies the graduation project for the master program of Integrated Product Design at the Delft University of Technology. It describes an interconnection method to connect electronics onto the smart textiles that differs from any solutions existing in the market. Smart textiles are considered as the future of the clothes and are...

Implementing textile pressure sensor into car seats

The smart textile technology shows its strength in seamlessly merges the electrodes within the soft fabric. The textile pressure sensor has been used in many types of research for sensing pressure distribution. However, the existing sensors are not made for daily use. Sensors like the XSENSOR have a high price and contains plastic films, making...

An inertial measurement unit based method to estimate hip and knee joint kinematics in team sport athletes on the field

Current athlete monitoring practice in team sports is mainly based on positional data measured by global positioning or local positioning systems. The disadvantage of these measurement systems is that they do not register lower extremity kinematics, which could be a useful measure for identifying injury-risk factors. Rapid development in...

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Project work on wellbeing in multidisciplinary student teams: A triple testimonial on eps at artesis

The European Project Semester (EPS) programme offers an educational framework to support students to practice problem-and project-based cross-disciplinary product innovation and research, in small multidisciplinary and international teams. To explore the potential and the restrictions of this international educational concept, in 2012 the...

Remote Monitoring to Support Health Care: The designing of an application to ambulatory measure human back movements

This report describes the “Remote Monitoring to Support Health Care” project in which an application is designed to ambulatory measure the movements of the human back. The final design of the application called the Remote Monitoring Navale Application is part of the existing Remote Monitoring System of Evalan. Together with the other components...