Design smart clothing using digital human models

Book chapter (2019)

Authors

Sofia Scataglini Royal Military Academy, Military Hospital Queen Astrid
Femke Danckaers Universiteit Antwerpen
T. Huysmans Applied Ergonomics and Design - IDE
Research Group
Applied Ergonomics and Design (IDE) (TU Delft)
Blender Smart technology DHM HCD Human system integration Statistical body shape model
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Published Date

2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

Department

Human-Centered Design

Research Group

Applied Ergonomics and Design

Abstract

This chapter presents digital human models (DHMs) as supporting tools in user-centered design for smart clothing. Smart clothing represents the new class of design era 2.0 with interactive technologies intended to be attractive, comfortable, and fit for the purpose of the identified user (Scataglini et al., 2019). While DHMs offer the possibility to analyze or predict human posture, motion, and other functions in a high-fidelity, physics-based, three-dimensional, real-time environment, smart clothing allows for monitoring vital (heart rate, breathing rate, temperature) and emotional (heart rate variability, electrodermal activity) parameters, movements, and postures. Effectiveness of functional wear is verified on the integration of DHMs into the design of a smart clothing system. Smart clothing represents a “second skin” that has a close “intimate” relation with the human body. This relation is physiological, psychological, biomechanical, and ergonomical. Physiological, biomechanical, and ergonomic aspects represent a retro-feedback of the user’s function in the iterative co-design workflow for designing smart garments, permitting the redesign and the technological refinement of it.