Smart Textiles

Stefan Schneegass is a Research Associate within the Human-Computer Interaction group at University of Stuttgart. His current research interest centres on ubiquitous computing and human-computer interaction (HCI) particularly wearable computing and usable security. Oliver Amft is a Full Professor at University of Passau, Germany and head of the Chair of Sensor Technology, whose research focuses on ubiquitous sensor technology, smart textiles, multi-modal context pattern recognition, and human behavior inference algorithms with applications in healthcare, sports, and building technologies.

Introduction to Smart Textiles.- Precision Fabric Production in Industry.- Textile Pressure Force Mapping.-  Strain and Angular Sensing Fabrics for Human- Motion Analysis in Daily Life.- Integrated Non-Light-Emissive Animateable Textile Displays.- Haptic Feedback for Wearables and Textiles Based on Electrical Muscle Stimulation.- Textile Antennas.- Electronics Integration.- Reversible Contacting for Smart Textiles.- Energy Harvesting Smart Textiles.- A Strategy for Material-Specific e-Textile Interaction Design.- Designing for Smart Clothes and Wearable's:  A User Experience Design Perspective.- Designing (inter)active Costumes for Professional Stages.- Textile Building Blocks: Towards Simple, Modularized and Standardized Smart Textiles.- Smart Textiles and Smart Personnel Protective Equipment.- Textile Integrated Wearable Technologies for Sports and Medical Applications.- E-Garments: Future as 'Second Skins'?.