Research Journal of Textile and Apparel: Volume 14 Issue 4

Concept Development and Interaction Design for Wearable Systems

Despina Papadopoulos

Wearable systems with embedded electronics or electronic textiles are maturing and appear not only in specialized applications for health monitoring, protective and performance…

Electronic Textile Platforms for Monitoring in a Natural Environment

Rita Paradiso, Laura Caldani

Electronics textile platforms are conceived as the implementation into textile of added functions like sensing, actuation, computing and power managing with the whole being part…

Challenges in Future Personal Protective Equipment – An Overview of Developments in User Needs

Emiel A. Den Hartog

The challenges to military and first responder personnel have considerably changed over the last few decades. Complex environments which consist of multiple threats also impose…

Textile-based Antennas for Off-Body Communication

Carla Hertleer, Lieva Van Langenhove, Hendrik Rogier

The need for textile-based antennas originates from the development of smart textile systems that emerged in the nineties. The aim is to increase the functionality of textiles, in…

Towards Fibered Electronics: Materials and Devices

Giorgio Mattana, Annalisa Bonfiglio

In this paper, we present a synthetic review of the evolution of fibered electronics. Starting from inorganic materials used as coating layers for flexible yarns, and arriving at…

Robust Fabric Substrates for Photonic Textile Applications

Liesbeth van Pieterson, Piet Bouten, Koen Kriege, Rabin Bhattacharya

Textiles are a ubiquitous part of human life. By combining them with electronics to create electronic textile systems, new application fields emerge. In this paper, technology and…

Fibers and Fabrics for Chemical and Biological Sensing

Shirley Coyle, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Tanja Radu, King-Tong Lau, Dermot Diamond

Wearable sensors can be used to monitor many interesting parameters about the wearer’s physiology and environment, with important applications in personal health and well-being…

Optical Bend Sensing for Wearable Goniometry: Exploring the Comfort/Accuracy Tradeoff

Lucy E. Dunne

This paper explores some initial variables that impact the sensor signal and accuracy of a garment-integrated bend sensor used to measure the flexion and extension of the knee. An…

Electrodermal Responses Through Textile Electrodes

Antonio Lanatà, Gaetano Valenza, E.Pasquale Scilingo

This paper aims at testing the ability of textile electrodes to effectively acquire electrodermal responses (EDRs). EDRs are acquired from sixteen healthy subjects in order to…

Study on Sensing Properties of Electro-spun PEO/MWNT Non-woven Fabric

Izabella Krucińska, Beata Surma, Michał Chrzanowski

This paper presents a study on the sensing properties of a conductive polymer composite (CPC) that is processed by an electrospinning technique. The CPC is obtained by mixing…

Jacquard-Woven Photonic Bandgap Fiber Displays

I. Sayed, J. Berzowska, M. Skorobogatiy

We present an overview of photonic textile displays woven on a Jacquard loom, using newly discovered polymer photonic bandgap (PBG) fibers that have the ability to change color…

Active Electronic Fibers and Woven Logic

Mahiar Hamedi, Olle Inganäs

Giving textiles electronic functions while retaining the flexibility of weaves would open up new avenues for already mature textile technology. We review recent developments in…