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This category lists articles, technical information and scientific papers about the research into, and the development and applications of conductive textiles and nonwovens.

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• "Smart'' Clothing

  http://www.wearcam.org/smart_clothing/
  Paper presenting a framework for interacting with external processes through the development of a utility for person-worn computing as an alternative to desktop and portable computers. Author: Steve Mann.

• A New Approach to Obtain Data About the Charge Decay in Samples of Textiles for ESD Garments

  http://estat.vtt.fi/publications/eic2003.pdf
  Technical paper presenting the results of research concerning a special charge decay characterisation of carefully tribocharged samples of composite textiles. Authors: G. Coletti and others.

• Ambient Intelligence Visions and Achievements: Linking Abstract Ideas to Real-World Concepts

  http://www.es.ele.tue.nl/epicurus/publications/date03.pdf
  Article reflecting the issues discused at the Special Session on Ambient Intelligence Visions and Achievements, bringing together the European Union's view on information technology, specifically novel computing substrates based on electronic textiles. Authors: Menno Lindwer and others.

• Architectures for E-Textiles

  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12232003-113641/unrestricted/Dissertation.pdf
  Doctor of Philosophy dissertation focusing on defining the architecture and networking scheme of electronic textiles, the creation of a simulation environment, and the implementation of hardware prototypes. Author: Zahi S. Nakad.

• Challenges and Opportunities in Electronic Textiles Modeling and Optimization

  http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~dianam/conferences/dac02.pdf
  Technical paper addressing the emerging field of research that combines the strengths and capabilities of electronic and textile technologies, and illustrates the challenges imposed by their modeling and optimization methodology. Authors: Diana Marculescu and others.

• Clothing that Changes Colour to Match Your Mood

  http://www.expresstextile.com/20030911/itintextiles01.shtml
  Short article about intelligent fibers, and interactive or smart textile technologies for biomedical and military applications, and their future use in fashion and clothing. From Express Textile.

• Computational Clothing and Accessories

  http://csis.pace.edu/~ctappert/dps/pdf/wearable-barfield.pdf
  Technical paper about the development of clothing and clothing accessories which act as stand-alone computers, able to process, store, retrieve and send information. Authors: Woodrow Barfield and others.

• Design of E-Textiles for Acoustic Applications

  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10292003-122518/unrestricted/thesis.pdf
  Master of Science thesis focusing on the design of electronic textiles for acoustic signal processing applications, and presenting the design process and performance analysis of a large-scale beamforming fabric and a speech processing vest. Author: Ravi R. Shenoy.

• E-Broidery: Design and Fabrication of Textile-Based Computing

  http://www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-article/pdffiles/e-broidery--design-and-fabrication-of-textile-based-computing.pdf?PDFPTOKEN=b76d1660ba3e532e796a57339ede1b5bb2d40485|1218920499#PDFP
  Technical paper describing the patterning of conductive textiles by numerically controlled sewing or weaving processes as a means of creating computationally active textiles. Authors: E.R. Post and others.

• e-TAGs: E-Textile Attached Gadgets

  http://crib.lehn.org:8080/~dlehn/projects/research/publications/CNDS-2004.pdf
  Technical paper describing the design and implementation issues involved in the development of electronic textile components, as well as the system architecture, connection techniques, communication alternatives, and experiences from the construction of a prototype wearable e-textile with multiple e-TAGs. Authors: David I. Lehn and others.

• Electronic Textiles for Autonomous Location Awareness

  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12142004-193827/unrestricted/mchandra_thesis.pdf
  Master of Science thesis describing an autonomous, wearable electronic textile location awareness system able to determine a user's location within a building. Author: Madhup Chandra.

• Electronic Textiles for Motion Analysis

  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05282004-163029/unrestricted/etd_final_C.pdf
  Master of Science thesis presenting the design of a simulation environment for wearable electronic textile systems for medical purposes, and demonstrating the use of the simulation via a prototype pair of e-textile pants. Author: Joshua N. Edmison.

• Fiber Computing

  http://www.cellmatrix.com/entryway/products/pub/Cakmakci2001.pdf
  Technical paper describing a potential physical layer for wearable computing, defined by the fabrication of transistors onto fibers and their integration into textile fabrics. Authors: Ozan Cakmakci and others.

• Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard

  http://www.gtwm.gatech.edu/gtwm.html
  Description of the development, application and impact of a patented computing t-shirt for military uses, developed by the Georgia Tech University.

• Intelligent Textiles, Soft Products

  http://www.ivt.ntnu.no/ipd/docs/pd9_2003/Norstebo.pdf
  Technical paper providing an overview of material alternatives and properties available to designers of electronic textiles, and the advantages of incorporating electronic and interactive textiles in human clothing. Authors: André Norstebo.

• Interactive Electronic Textiles: Technologies, Applications, Opportunities, and Market Potential

  http://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/ir/bitstream/1840.16/1216/1/etd.pdf
  Technical paper examining the strengths and limitations of potential supporting technologies for the development of interactive electronic textiles. Authors: D. Meoli and T. May-Plumlee.

• Modeling of Power Consumption and Fault Tolerance for Electronic Textiles

  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10162003-005726/unrestricted/tsheikh_2003_thesis.pdf
  Master of Science thesis focused on research aimed at creating simulation models for power consumption and fault behaviour of electronic textile applications, and presenting simulation results of the performance of an acoustic beamforming textile in the presence and absence of faults to explore battery life and fault tolerance. Author: Tanwir Sheikh.

• sEMG Measuring by Garments

  http://www.arbetsliv.eu/nes2007/papers/A73_Sipila.pdf
  Technical paper, presenting recent developments of incorporating disposable metallic surface electromyography electrodes (sEMG) into garments for the monitoring and study of muscle activity. Authors: A. Sipila and others.

• Smart Clothes: The MIT Wearable Computing Web Page

  http://www.wearcam.org/computing.html/
  Introduction and resource of technical information to the field of wearable computing, including links to related sites.

• Smart Clothing

  http://ldt.stanford.edu/~jeepark/jeepark%2Bportfolio/cs147hw8jeepark.html
  Assignment outline about the manufacture, structure, properties and applications of Georgia Tech University's "Wearable Motherboard" fabrics for commercial and military sensing and computing clothing and textiles. Author: Jee Park.

• Smart Textiles

  http://www.photonicslabs.com/Assets/downloads/smarttextiles.pdf
  Short description of a project within the framework of the Soldier Warrior Systems Technologies, with the aim to investigate and develop the methodology and manufacturing processes for integration of electrical and optical conductive networks, sensors and electronic devices into clothing, webbing or other textile based materials worn by soldiers.

• Soft Computation through Conductive Textiles

  http://www.xslabs.net/papers/iffti07-berzowska-AQ.pdf
  Technical paper outlining various methods for constructing electronic textiles and threads, as well as traditional textile construction methods as sewing, embroidery and appliqué with various conductive and active materials to create interactive fabrics. Authors: Joanna Berzowska and Marguerite Bromley.

• Strain-Sensing Fabrics for Wearable Kinaesthetic-Like Systems

  ftp://www.piaggio.ccii.unipi.it/pub/papers/IEEE_sensor_journal_2003.pdf
  Technical paper presenting a description of the polymerization process used to realize strain sensors, the characterization of strain-sensing textile fabrics, and the thermal and mechanical transduction properties of strain sensors from electroactive polymeric materials. Authors: E.P. Scilingo and others.

• The Basic Problems of Textronics

  http://www.fibtex.lodz.pl/45_06_13.pdf
  Technical paper describing the technological difficulties of integrating textile science, electronics and computer science into the new interdisciplinary branch of science designated as textronics. Authors: Krzisztof Gniotek and Izabela Krucinska.

• Wanted - A Textile Mobile Device

  http://www.cs.chalmers.se/idc/publication/pdf/berglin_wanted.pdf
  Paper presenting the process of design and development of a three finger glove wirelessly connected to a mobile phone where the interaction takes place mainly by voice and hand gestures. Author: Lena T.H. Berglin.

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