Enhancing the wearablity and accessibility of illuminated POF garment

Bai, Ziqian; Tan, Jeanne; Chen, Amy; Ge, Lan

doi:10.1108/ijcst-03-2019-0028

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“…The system was made by capacitive sensor to achieve multi-touch sensing function on fabrics for colour changing effect 2 . Furthermore, an illuminated POF garment, the LUMI jacket, is developed to show the evidence on seamless integration of POF and touch-sensitive function into fashion wearables 32 . It is demonstrated that there is limited of exploration on POF textile integrated with number gesture recognition function for interactive applications both in wearables and interior 58 .…”

Section: Illuminative Textiles and Wearablesmentioning

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Intelligent textiles: designing a gesture-controlled illuminated textile based on computer vision

Tan

Shao

Lam

et al. 2021

Textile Research Journal

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Artificial intelligence (AI) offers the potential for the development of e-textiles that give wearers a smart and intuitive experience. An emerging challenge in intelligent materials design is hand gesture recognition textiles. Most current research focuses on number gesture recognition via smart gloves, so there is a gap in research that studies contact-less number gesture recognition textiles via computer vision. Meanwhile, there is lack of exploration on the integration of illuminating function and number gesture recognition textiles to improve interactivity by real-time visualizing detection results. In this research, a novel interactive illuminating textile with a touch-less number gesture recognition function has been designed and fabricated by using an open-source AI model. It is used in sync with a polymeric optical fiber textile with illuminative features. The textile is color-changing, controlled by the system's mid-air interactive number gesture recognition capability and has a woven stripe pattern and a double-layer weave structure with open pockets to facilitate integration of the system's components. Also described here is a novel design process that permits textile design and intelligent technology to integrate seamlessly and in synchronization, so that design in effect mediates continuously between the physical textile and the intangible technology. Moreover, this design method serves as a reference for the integration of open-source intelligent hardware and software into e-textiles for enhancement of the intuitive function and value via economy of labor.

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Section: Illuminative Textiles and Wearablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligent textiles: designing a gesture-controlled illuminated textile based on computer vision

Tan

Shao

Lam

et al. 2021

Textile Research Journal

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“…The durability and wash-ability of wearables are depended on material properties, as it preserves the performance of wearables after multiple cycles of washing (Koski et al , 2013). Bai et al (2019) conducted research on using polymeric optical fibre (POF) and proved that the smart jacket made of POF is possible to be home laundered by maintaining durability of wearables. Lastly, the sustainability features within wearables are addressed by socio-environmental perspectives, meaning how wearables impact on the environment and the quality of individuals' lives (Lee et al , 2016).…”

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Identifying key quality features for wearable technology embedded products using the Kano model

Salahuddin

Lee

2020

IJCST

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PurposeThe purpose of this study was to identify the major quality features of wearable technology embedded products that have the greatest impact on consumer satisfaction using the Kano model, an organized approach to specify consumer requirements and expectation through a preference classification technique.Design/methodology/approachUsing a quantitative research method, an online survey was conducted with a convenience sample of US consumers aged between 19 years old and over. A total of otal 471 useable data were obtained and used for the data analysis.FindingsThis study identified that the 11 quality features of wearables belong to one-dimensional quality category among the five Kano categories, although the impact of each quality feature's performance on consumer satisfaction varies. The results also showed that the performance level of durability, long battery life, usability, product safety, comfortability and reasonable price has the greatest impact on consumer satisfaction of wearables.Research limitations/implicationsThis study has implications for future research by integrating the Kano model with other design and product development related theoretical models when designing, developing and evaluating various wearable products.Originality/valueThis study quantified the key quality features of wearables using the Kano model, which can be a great measurement tool for future researchers to adopt in their studies. The findings of this study help designers, developers and producers of wearables to prioritize the quality features during the product design, development and manufacturing process.

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“…An interdisciplinary design method was suggested for interactive POF textile development (Tan et al , 2018). Some cases of the POF integrated into a textile fabric structure to provide illumination (Bai et al , 2019). Seamless felting technology connected side-glowing POFs and nonwoven fabric to achieve smart textile (Sergeyeva and Sergeyev, 2019).…”

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Quadri-directional optical bending sensor using side-emitting POF integrated with wearable device technology in smart glove

Lin

2022

IJCST

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PurposeIt is important to monitor wrist four direction movements (flexion, extension, adduction and abduction) for hand healthcare, wrist rehabilitation and upper limb exercise, and so on. The purpose of this study is to develop a quadri-directional optical bending sensor that integrated wearable device technology in a smart glove to detect wrist four direction movements.Design/methodology/approachThe quadri-directional optical bending sensor was designed with a microcontroller board, a Bluetooth wireless module, a side-emitting polymeric optical fibre (POF), an infrared light emitting diode and four phototransistors. A linear equation was deduced to calculate bending angle from detecting sensor value of Arduino microcontroller. The bending angle values could be seen by the smartphone screen, so the system has a good human–machine interface function.FindingsThe light emission by macro-bending of the side-emitting POFs that the transmittance of the outer side is greater than the inner. The bending POFs lateral emission phenomenon integrated with phototransistors on the edge is suitable for the development of bending sensors.Originality/valueThis study is to develop a novel quadri-directional optical bending sensor to replace two bi-direction sensors or four uni-direction sensors for wrist four direction movements monitoring.

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Enhancing the wearablity and accessibility of illuminated POF garment

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Intelligent textiles: designing a gesture-controlled illuminated textile based on computer vision

Intelligent textiles: designing a gesture-controlled illuminated textile based on computer vision

Identifying key quality features for wearable technology embedded products using the Kano model

Quadri-directional optical bending sensor using side-emitting POF integrated with wearable device technology in smart glove

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