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Smart Textiles

Fundamentals, Design, and Interaction

  • Introduces a holistic viewpoint on Smart Textiles and Textile Electronics
  • Provides a firm foundation of knowledge into different textile sensing and actuation means
  • Includes application examples of smart textiles and how these textiles can support users
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction to Smart Textiles

    • Stefan Schneegass, Oliver Amft
    Pages 1-15
  3. Precision Fabric Production in Industry

    • Karl Gönner, HansjĂĽrgen Horter, Peter Chabrecek, Werner Gaschler
    Pages 17-30
  4. Textile Pressure Force Mapping

    • Bo Zhou, Paul Lukowicz
    Pages 31-47
  5. Strain- and Angular-Sensing Fabrics for Human Motion Analysis in Daily Life

    • Federico Lorussi, Nicola Carbonaro, Danilo De Rossi, Alessandro Tognetti
    Pages 49-70
  6. Integrated Non-light-Emissive Animatable Textile Displays

    • Roshan Lalintha Peiris
    Pages 71-101
  7. Textile Antennas

    • Andreas Mehmann
    Pages 139-159
  8. Electronics Integration

    • Matija Varga
    Pages 161-184
  9. Reversible Contacting for Smart Textiles

    • Andreas Mehmann, Matija Varga, Gerhard Tröster
    Pages 185-198
  10. Energy Harvesting Smart Textiles

    • Derman Vatansever Bayramol, Navneet Soin, Tahir Shah, Elias Siores, Dimitroula Matsouka, Savvas Vassiliadis
    Pages 199-231
  11. A Strategy for Material-Specific e-Textile Interaction Design

    • Ramyah Gowrishankar, Katharina Bredies, Salu Ylirisku
    Pages 233-257
  12. Textile Building Blocks: Toward Simple, Modularized, and Standardized Smart Textile

    • Jingyuan Cheng, Bo Zhou, Paul Lukowicz, Fernando Seoane, Matija Varga, Andreas Mehmann et al.
    Pages 303-331
  13. Smart Textiles and Smart Personnel Protective Equipment

    • Dongyi Chen, Michael Lawo
    Pages 333-357
  14. Textile Integrated Wearable Technologies for Sports and Medical Applications

    • Heike Leutheuser, Nadine R. Lang, Stefan Gradl, Matthias Struck, Andreas Tobola, Christian Hofmann et al.
    Pages 359-382
  15. e-Garments: Future as “Second Skin”?

    • Aurora De Acutis, Danilo De Rossi
    Pages 383-396

About this book

From a holistic perspective, this handbook explores the design, development and production of smart textiles and textile electronics, breaking with the traditional silo-structure of smart textile research and development.

Leading experts from different domains including textile production, electrical engineering, interaction design and human-computer interaction (HCI) address production processes in their entirety by exploring important concepts and topics like textile manufacturing, sensor and actuator development for textiles, the integration of electronics into textiles and the interaction with textiles. In addition, different application scenarios, where smart textiles play a key role, are presented too.

Smart Textiles would be an ideal resource for researchers, designers and academics who are interested in understanding the overall process in creating viable smart textiles.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Visualization & Interactive Systems / MC, University of Stuttgart Visualization & Interactive Systems / MC, Stuttgart, Germany

    Stefan Schneegass

  • Chair of Sensor Technology, University of Passau Chair of Sensor Technology, Passau, Germany

    Oliver Amft

About the editors

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.

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eBook USD 99.00
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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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