Lucky Strikes Wearable Computing, a part of the Designing Desire project was a call to all students to analzye our own desires and create something that would appeal to our senses and be aesthetically and functionally desirable. 'Lucky Strikes' is the title Shyama and I gave our project. Meant to be a casual, party-wear system, it uses the dart and dart board analogy to 'throw' audio messages recorded into a small seed like memory device that sticks to the target's vest. it is targeted at youngsters as a fun, handy and physical way of breaking ice with the less familiar but desirable person across the room. Other team members > Shyama Duriseti Instructing Faculty > Casey Reas, Victoria Ladefoged ( Visiting )

Smartex The wearable garment sensors for dancers Smartex took part to the Multisensory Expressive Gesture Applications (MEGA) project, IST-1999-20410, funded by EU and now closed. The work was centered on the modeling and real-time analysis, synthesis, and networked communication of expressive and emotional content in non-verbal interaction by multi-sensory interfaces, from a multimodal perspective. Music, voice and movement (including dance) are first class channels for conveying expressive ...

2nd Generation iPAQ Wearable Computer Component Snapshot 2nd Generation iPAQ Wearable with MicroOptical Head Mounted Display and HandyKey Twiddler Chording keyboard 2nd Generation iPAQ Wearable and MIP520 wearable (right) that can work together in a WLAN-coupled Body Area Network System Description based on the experiences with An iPAQ based Wearable Computer uses an iPAQ with dualboot (PocketPC/Linux) with Linux on a CF card or MicroDrive in an PCMCIA jacket and runs a full-featured i ...

A Handtracking System Semester thesis by Alper Ozmacun and Alp Bozaci Where are you pointing at? An obvious input device in a wearable computing system is the hand or a finger of the user. In this semester project by Alper Ozmacun and Alp Bozaci different ways to detect a hand and the direction in which the index finger is pointing were investigated. Three different possibilities to recognize a hand were analyzed: Spectrum An attempt was made to analyze the spectrum of light reflected fr ...

A PalmPilot Interface for Affective Wearables Jennifer Healey & Frank Dabek An affective wearable computer should be able to respond automatically to user preferences through physiological signals. Therefore, it is not necessary to have continuous display and keyboard communication with the system, as is the case with traditional wearable computers. We present the Palm Pilot as an occasional diagnostic interface for the physiological sensors and as an easy-to-learn system of annotation for important emotional events.

Wearables - Projects Accessory Nerve How can we use technology to connect to friends and loved ones in a more personal and poetic way? Line Ulrika, Ryan Accessory Nerve is a clothing accessory in the form of a wearable interface that uses dynamic patterns to connect people on a more emotional level. The garment is based on cellular network technology in which a moveable cloth display on the sleeves reacts when receiving messages from friends and loved ones. The wearer is able to pre-progr ...

Acoustic Beamformer Project Description: A computational fabric serving as an acoustic array capable of determining location and direction of motion of a vehicle while tolerating faults Goals: Proof of concept, and a hardware prototype to mature our experience in the electronic textiles field. This prototype also serves as a testing and "grounding" application for the simulator.

Project Title: Advanced and Intelligent Textiles and Textile Processes Project Reference: AITTEX-Pro Abstract: The object is to create a network of excellence in textiles and clothing involving partners from approximately 30 universities, 10 research institutes and relevant industrial organisations. The network will co-ordinate and align the research activities of the partners to promote the creation of the fundamental knowledge necessary for the development of novel textile-based materials ...

TR#478: A New Affect-Perceiving Interface and Its Application to Personalized Music Selection Jennifer Healey, Rosalind Picard and Frank Dabek Appears in:Proceedings of the 1998 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces San Fransisco, CA, November 4-6, 1998 A wearable computer that perceives and responds to the wearer's affective state offers a new kind of perceptual interface. Instead of asking the user to continuously select preferences from a menu, the affective wearable gets to know its we ...

Affective Jewelry and other Affective Accessories Jennifer Healey & Grant Gould One goal of the Affective Computing project is to build computer systems that can sense users' emotional states. One approach to achieving this goal is through affective wearable computing -- wearing small but powerful computers in your clothing that use non-invasive biosensors to sense biophysiological changes that reflect changes in emotional state. The Affective Jewelry project is an attempt to create low-cost ...

AMON (Advanced telemedical MONitor) Contact Person: Jamie Ward Project Duration: Summer 2001 - Summer 2003 EU FP5 project funded by the Swiss BBW agency Objectives Health monitoring is among the most attractive application fields for wearable electronics. The AMON (Advanced telemedical MONitor) project is an ambitious attempt at combining multiple health monitoring devices in a single wrist-worn unit. Designed to be worn by cardiac outpatients, the device allows remote monitoring of v ...

An Acoustic Array as an Example of a Large Scale Electronic Textile Organization : NCSU College of Textiles Lead member: Tushar Ghosh Status: Active The subject research is being carried out at the College of Textiles as a part of a DARPA funded research project on Electronic Textiles. The objective is to build a new paradigm of flexible and conformable textile-based electronics that can be used in medical, military, robotics, and other civilian applications. Electronic textiles offer possib ...

Project Titre Animated Quilts and Distributed Textile Networks Année de début 2004 Axe de recherche Textiles interactifs et ordinateurs vestimentaires Chercheurs Berzowska, Joanna Description I propose to develop enabling technology for "smart fabrics" based upon my theoretical evaluation of the historical and cultural modalities of textiles as they relate to future computational forms. "Animated Quilts and Distributed Textile Networks" are visually animated textiles that enable s ...

Titre Animated Textiles Année de début 2002 Axe de recherche Textiles interactifs et ordinateurs vestimentaires Chercheurs Layne, Barbara Description This project involves the creation of dynamic textiles by integrating Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and electronic circuitry into the structure of hand woven fabrics. Three intersecting research streams are being developed: 1. Artworks will address the nature of communications in a changing world and can take many forms including ins ...

Arianne The project concerns a feasibility study of textile circuits made with an electronically functionalised yarn, aimed to the develpment of a textile yarn with electronic functions (a "textile transistor") and to the study of the electronic behaviour of the fabric seen as a complex electronic network whose complexity and final behaviour is determined both by the electronic properties of the yarn and by its topology in the fabric. The project is divided into some fundamental lines: Proje ...

AstroBoy Specifications NTSC Infrared camera with filter to block out visible light; 12 Volts DC operation; BNC video connector. The backpack provides you with plenty of room to stow your own recording device, or transmitting device, or both. There is also plenty of room for a large battery. Alternatively, no transmitter or recording device is needed. Simply wear the backpack as a deterrent against crime. With such a conspicuously concealed camera, nobody will know whether or not you're live, so they will simply have to be on their best behaviour at all times. Proceeds from this effort go toward funding students and research in the University of Toronto Humanistic Intelligence Lab.

Belly a computer rendered sketch Megan Galbraith this conceptual bag is an exploration of form and space in relation to the body, to the materials a person carries with them, and to the machines needed to power and run interactive hardware and computational systems, systems i am working to develop throughout my graduate research. belly was constructed by carving out spaces for the three items mentioned above (the body, personal belongings, and hardware) and arranging them within the confi ...

Big Ring With embroidered pressure sensors. Designed for remixing precomposed music. Maggie Orth

designer vincent leclerc advisor joey berzowska developed for second skin and softwear blazer 01.2 is a light emitting bracelet. it is the first of several intended prototypes using different kinds of technologies. it is used to display text in space by moving the part of the body - or the whole body - wearing it. it consists of an opened cone of synthetic silver-looking fabric and a column of 5 snap buttons. it is powered by a 9V battery and is controlled by a Basic Stamp II. when the butt ...

BlazerJet For the busy man (or woman) about town, BlazerJet is equipped with CardPC, GPS, GSM 'phone, a novel Pinger receiver and both the audio interface and a Jornada 420 palmtop.

Board L7 proposed an integrated jacket for snowboarders. Researched anddeveloped by a resourceful group of students from Parsons School of Design for Fashion Technology Masters Course.The L7 Design Co. spent months researching the behaviors and patterns of snowboarders. The resulting devices embedded in the jacket actually compliments and drives the experience of boarding. The wiring used to power the intellectual components are integrated into the exterior layer of the fabric in a unique, artis ...

Body Wearable Computer Computer Applications What is a Body Wearable Computer (BWC)? A BWC is a battery-powered computer system worn on the user's body (on a belt, backpack or vest). It is designed for mobile and predominantly hands-free operations, often incorporating head-mounted displays and speech input. Body wearable computing has been defined in several ways. For instance Steve Mann refers to the eight attributes of Body Wearable Computing. But at the Kennedy Space Center it is being used only as a tool while at work. For more information, e-mail me at Troy.Bentley-1@ksc.nasa.gov. (321) 867-1680

Constructing the BodyBeat Controller Brian Clarkson©2002 This is the beginning of a music project surrounding the idea of portable and serendipitous musique concrete (using real sounds from the non-musical environment to create music). Pictured is an actual thigh mounted MIDI controller (based on the PIC16F877) with 18 pressure-sensitive buttons and 4 stateless mod wheels. The arbitrarily mappable controllers on this device are meant to control a custom-made software sampler. Concept: Portable Musique Concrete BodyBeat is a system that allows a musician to do impromptu jam sessions that possibly integrate elements of his current auditory environment.

Buddy A personal interactive daily assistant. designed by Jui Lin Dai

Butterfly With embroidered pressure sensors. Designed for creating a two accompanying melody lines. Maggie Orth

Buttons Project Description: The mission of this project is the development of e-textile buttons. These are small computational, sensor, or actuator devices which attach to a fabric e-textile. This research involves building physical devices, finding ways to attach them to fabric, finding ways to connect to wires in the fabric, and development of software and protocols for communication and control of the devices. Goals: Explore methods for attaching small computational, sensor, and/or actuator devices to e-textile fabrics. Develop a (simple) protocol for communication between devices. Build prototype devices.

bYOB [build your own bag] DESCRIPTION Motivated by a desire to make building with fabric as easy as playing with Lego blocks, we designed bYOB (Build Your Own Bag), a flexible, computationally-enhanced modular textile system. When modules are snapped together to form an object, they become part of a sensor network and begin to communicate with people, other objects, and their environment. A bag built out of the system senses if important personal items are missing, illuminates inner conten ...

Cardiac PAF Detection and Prediction Affective Computing group Researchers: Roz W. Picard Group Web site: http://affect.media.mit.edu Electrocardiogram (ECG) data from the PhysioNet Online Database is being analyzed using new spectrum estimation techniques to develop a program able to predict, as well as recognize, the onset of specific cardiac arrhythmias such as paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). PAF is a dangerous form of cardiac arrhythmia that poses severe health risks, somet ...

Chameleon Fibers: Color Junable Molecular and Oligomeric Devices The creation of field-responsive fibers, chameleon fibers, is a multi-disciplinary endeavor. In addition to electroactive chromophores, polymeric materials able to generate a uniform, stable field for excitation of the color change process must be prepared. The requirements for these polymers include: appropriate electronic and optical properties, chemical compatibility with chromophores, processability and specific structural fe ...

CHARGE IT 2002 KATHERINE MORIWAKI DESCRIPTION CHARGE IT is a skirt designed for the material girl. When the mobile phone placed it its pocket rings, a voice-sample is triggered and the skirt exclaims "CHARGE IT!" CHARGE IT is a fun and playful skirt meant to elicit humor and amusement. CHARGE IT is also a demanding garment that asserts its identity with a propagandized certainty. Communication equates consumption. Consumption commands technological progress. All with good credit, hopefully. CHARGE IT is constructed out of black velvet with hot pink satin lining. Completed November 2002. (more info to come) Worn by Vicky Lynn at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

Charmed Technology - CharmBadge The next generation conference badge — The CharmBadge is the solution you have been waiting for - a way to share your contact information with others without having to carry a box of business cards with you or type in the information of your contacts. General Information The CharmBadge is a computerized conference badge about the size of a business card. Users simply wear the badge and it records the contact information of other CharmBadge users as they come i ...

CharmIT clone Wearable Computer Tips uses the motherboard you can separately order from Charmed Technology (800MHz Transmeta Crusoe computing core) hints on components and their configuration Transmeta Linux kernel options Transmeta power board layout snapshots showing size (13cm x 13cm x 5.5cm), removable AT-HDD, USB Bluetooth adapter, interaction with other components (MicroOptical AV-1 HMD, T68i GSM phone, iPAQ 3870 with integrated Bluetooth running Linux/opie)

Chimerical Garment elise co The chimerical garment explores the idea of technology and computation as expressive elements relating to the human body and its movement. Using flat-screen LCD and computationally-generated 3D graphics, the chimerical garment is a projection of imaginary clothing into the physical world. The display, worn on the back in a custom-built pack, shows a virtual garment in the context of an abstracted 3D representation of a male back. Through sensors embedded in an arm ...

CLAN (Clothing Area Network) A research project aiming to develop a technical concept and technology needed in enabling both wired and wireless data and power transfer between different intelligent modules (user interfaces, sensors, CPU’s, batteries etc.) integrated into a smart clothing system. Fire-fighters clothing system is chosen as the development platform, being a very challenging application from which the developed technology can be transferred to other protective clothing systems. Funded mainly by National Technology Agency of Finland (Tekes) and partially by industrial partners. 2004.

ClickSneaks The ClickSneaks were conceived in the most pedestrian manner. Walking down a cobblestone street, wearing a comfortable pair of sneakers next to a friend wearing a stunning pair of high heels. The sound of the heels echoed through the night, each step producing a rich aural environment; what if the comfortable sneakers could partake in this world of poignant allusions? Part fantasy, part irony, the ClickSneaks subvert both the traditional attributes of a pair of shoes, and expose ...

Closer Concept The Closer projects' goals are to create wearable interactive art which reinforces values of kindness, fun and play through the action of positive touch. Closers goals are manifested in two technological garments, which inspire playful real-time real-space contact to accentuate the nature of positive touch experiences. Patsy, the touch to sound pullover, responds with silly sounds upon gently hugging or holding the individual wearing the garment, while Filly, the touch to light jumper, uses a visual indicator to represent the number of positive touches or lack there of in an hour. These garments mediate touches in order to show technology’s capacity to spread positive touch interactions between people.

Artist: Sara Diamond (Banff, Canada) Project Title: CodeZebra January 5th to August 31st, 2004 CodeZebra is a visual chat and threaded discussion software, performance events, and responsive fabric fashion designs. The software/website enables participants to see and organize conversation themes and histories meet other participants and track emotional and social dynamics of on-line conversation. It provides simple animal entity games that participants and moderators may use to enhance commun ...

coLAB's Filters and Blockers (FAB) Program Fab (Filters and blockers) is a collaborative art project launched by co-Lab Basel, Switzerland together with an international group of selected artists, technicians and designers. Fab focuses on artistic and human conscious ways of merging art, the human body and new technology. The Project Fab can be devided into three parts: A dense workshop series as well as a series of lectures taking place at VIPER BASEL built the base where international scien ...

Wearable Computer Laboratory Collaborative Data Visualization and Manipulation for Wearable Computers This a study of user interface techniques and distributed application support required to allow multiple users of wearable computers to access, visualise and manipulate real time data. The motivation for this is to enable users to operate applications requiring these features while away from a traditional computer workstation. The study will include the re-implementation of an existing worksta ...

Communication Jewels Jewels that facilitate audio and video communication. designed by Alberto Capolino

Conductive Textiles Contact Person: Ivo Locher Project Start: Autumn 2001 Objectives Providing the usual wearing comfort of clothing textiles as substrate for electronics intuitively emerge. Textiles must be able to embed conductive traces in order to be appropriate as PCB-like substrate. There already exist many types of conductive textiles such as fabrics with conductive polymer threads, conductively plated fabrics and fabrics with embedded copper fibers. Alternatively, a conductive la ...

TR#518:Inside the Conductor's Jacket: Analysis, Interpretation and Musical Synthesis of Expressive Gesture Teresa Marrin Nakra Ph.D. Thesis February 2000 Media Arts and Sciences Program, M.I.T. We present the design and implementation of the Conductor's Jacket, a unique wearable device that measures physiological and gestural signals, together with the Gesture Construction, a musical software system that interprets these signals and applies them expressively in a musical context. Sixteen ...

conicScape conicScape consists of a finger ring and a color camera hooked to a color tracker. the ring is made of silicon. placed inside is a high brightness surface mount red LED and enough power to turn it on. the color camera constantly monitors the position of the red light emitted by the ring using a simple pattern recognition algorithm. the algorithm approximates a circle out of the acquired frames. it calculates the radius and the centre coordinates of the circle and uses them as inp ...

cnnex™ COnnected fashion accessories The ConNex™ communications device consists of an embedded vibrating alert unit that notifies its owner when members of a predefined list of friends and family are nearby. The list of connected people is managed through a web-based interface, where the user can add connections and organize them into color groups which are associated with LEDs embedded in the device. The list server can also communicate with a mobile phone via SMS to supplement the minimal ...

The Context Aware Cell Phone Project Richard W. DeVaul, Steve Dunn. Cell phones represent the best and worst of modern wireless technology. Cell phones are one of the most popular tools of the early twenty-first century, facilitating business, recreation, and vital emergency communication. As the technology has become more popular, the social and safety problems associated with its wide-spread use have become more apparent. Cell phones are valuable tools, but they are also a significant distr ...

Wearables - Projects Cookie Factor How can we evoke desirable memories using the stimulation of the human senses? David Slocombe, Natasha Sopieva The Cookie Factor prototype combines scent with a story to trigger old and create new memories, associations, and emotions. A bottle of women's perfume containing a story or poem transmits a line of text by radio frequency every time the bottle is sprayed. The length of the text transmitted is directly proportional to the amount of perfume sprayed. ...

COOL LIGHT Luminous Materials A design research studio directed by Associate Professor Sheila Kennedy of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design investigates the architectural potentials of solid state lighting by taking apart the technologies of the fluorescent light bulb. The following is an excerpt from Professor Kennedy's essay in Bugs, Fish, Floors & Ceilings, a publication of this research work at Harvard University. Stimulated by electricity in electroluminescent film or by ...

courtly bags I wear my love in my heart, sings Nina Simone. The courtly bags follow the loveJackets, only this time they take the form of the signature piece of the fashion collective As Four. The bags in 4 sizes, start timid only to envelope the wearer in a storm of light and staccato electronic chirps. Working with a group of fashion designers and combining the jackets concept with an already determined fashion accessory was part of the challenge and exercise. The spectacular encounter of the 4 bags turned this project into a performance of its own right and turned the bags into choregraphers of bodies + space. Loud and timid at the same time, the design and the transmission complemented each other in a bold and unexpected manner.

CV-1 Video Viewer The CV-1 Video Viewer mounts on eyeglasses or safety eyewear and provides a monocular color quarter-VGA image. It’s a full video rate product capable of full motion video at 60 frames per second. Weighing a mere 28 grams, the CV-1 is comfortable to wear and is the lightest viewer currently made by MicroOptical. It has a quick mount and dismount system so that it can be easily attached and detached from the eyewear. The CV-1 must be purchased as either a left eye or right eye ...

CV-3 Video Viewer The CV-3 Video Viewer mounts on eyeglasses or safety eyewear and provides a monocular color full VGA image. The viewer is a full video rate product capable of full motion video at 60 frames per second. It has a quick release mounting system so that it can be easily attached and detached from the user’s eyewear. The CV-3 is a field-changeable left or right eye viewer. The focal distance can be adjusted from 2 feet to infinity. The CV-3 provides convenient controls for adjustin ...

CyberJacket A heavy duty Hein Gericke jacket for use in the field. Equipped with a CardPC, dGPS and GSM 'phone. User interface is audio (speech recognition & TTS) and/or a Jornada hand held display.

Cycle-Guide A bike messenger's assistant which receives and sends information concerning his or her parcels to a central service. designed by Sasha Braverman

DEC, Design for Extreme working Conditions Design for Extreme working Conditions Design for extreme working conditions is a research project that explores how smart textiles and wearable can support professions in these conditions. The idea is to use a couple of Smartwear products that can be combined with each other and where the technology solutions are possible to transfer into other products. The project is a co-operation between The Swedish School of Textiles, Mälardalens University, Björcks Fjällmar AB and HestraGloves AB More information: lena.berglin@hb.se

"Determination and Modelling of Synergistic Effects of Carbon Based Conductive Fillers for Electrically and Thermally Conductive Resins" National Science Foundation Sponsored Project, Award Number DMI-9973278 PROJECT SUMMARY Electrically and thermally conductive resins are commercially produced today in limited quantities. However, demand for thermally and electrically conductive resins is rapidly growing due to more stringent regulation on electronic noise, as well as the increased need for ...

Dialectric: A Collaboration between Laura MacCary and Lawrence MacCary Begun 2002 If you have difficulty running these videos in your browser, please view this page in Internet Explorer. Each piece in the Dialectric series consists of a textile woven by Laura MacCary of conductive or resistive materials cast off by industry, and a circuit designed around that textile by Lawrence MacCary. These woven structures form simple electronic components, such as coils, potentiometers, and switches. In ...

DIELECTRIC The buzzing of powerlines is a subtle yet omnipresent phenomenon in urban spaces. If perceived, one might interpret these acoustic manifestations of dynamic electricity as a symbolic expression of the city's enormous need for energy. The project "DIELECTRIC" is an interactive installation inspired by the buzzing sounds that powerlines produce. The elements of the project evoke the technology of energy transmission and the presence of electricity - impalpable and invisible in nature, ...

Diskless Wear Client... One of the problems that we have encountered is the portablility of information between our wearable computers. Imagine that the day before, you wore your favorite "computer slacks" to a company meeting, during this meeting, you saved important contact information of a lucrative sale. But to your surprise, today when you are in your office and are looking for this information, you remember that you stored this information to your "favorite slacks" solid state hard drive, ...

Displays and E-textiles Group members associated with this project Frank Liao Alejandro Vornbrock Tim Bakhishev Josephine Lee Laura Lin Jali Heilmann Relevant Publications "Organic transistors on fibers: A first step towards electronic textiles", Josephine B. Lee and Vivek Subramanian, IEEE International Electron Device Meeting, 2003. Project Summary The displays project is focused on the development of an ultra-low-cost display for use in low-cost information appliances. This project ...

Distributed Sensors and Actuators via Electronic-Textiles Welcome to the CLEMSON UNIVERSITY - NTC Web page Department of Commerce, National Textile Center (NTC) Project No.M04-CL05. Competency: Materials. Project Title: Welcome to the CLEMSON UNIVERSITY - NTC Web page Department of Commerce, National Textile Center (NTC) Project No.M04-CL05. Competency: Materials. Project Title: Over the last decade, researchers have been trying to address the issue of being able to utilize ...

DoubleWhammy Specifications When we introduced the HeartCam, the men felt that the women were getting an unfair advantage, by being able to let them have it with both barrels. We responded by providing a unisex double barrel shooting accessory. In the large (8 inch) dome, there is a color NTSC camera. The small dome provides an NTSC infrared camera with filter to block out visible light. The signal from the small dome is suitable for low light conditions, while the signal from the larg ...

DyPERS: Dynamic Personal Enhanced Reality System main investigators: Tony Jebara, Bernt Schiele, Nuria Oliver and Alex Pentland DyPERS, 'Dynamic Personal Enhanced Reality System', is a wearable system which uses augmented reality and computer vision to autonomously retrieve 'media memories' based on associations with real objects the user encounters. These are evoked as audio and video clips taken by the user and overlayed on top of real objects the user looks at. The user's visual and aud ...

the vu-man (pronouced view-man) wearable computer was to improve the maintenance process on complex machines. It was developed for use by commercial airlines, the automotive industry, and any other organization involved in inspecting, training or repairing complex machines. The maintenance process for complex machines is both enormous and detailed. For example, for one large aircraft there are over 100,000 pages of documentation. In aircraft hangers or any industrial setting, pages get dirty a ...

What is it? The patented Hands Free Mobile e-Belt™ is a lightweight, flexible, adjustable composite plastic belt designed to carry a variety of data-handling peripherals. The e-Belt™ includes a removable articulating arm, with a platform perfect for carrying a PDA or other display device. No more hand-holding your hand-held! Articulating Arm Features e-Belt™ Advantages Breathable—allows air flow under and through the belt, preventing uncomfortable heat build-up, unlike conventional n ...

e-Gilet Our first step into the world of fashion. A French Connection gilet fitted with our demonstration rig - a CardPC, custom twiddler and Jornada palmtop. Just right for the modern girl!

e-TAGs: e-Textile Attached Gadgets Quick links: [..] [buttons] [e-tags] [parts] [dev] [connectors] [log] Contents Mission Goals Who Resources Design e-TAGs ChangeLog Mission The mission of this project is the development of attachments for electronic textiles (e-textiles). These attachments are small computational, sensor, or actuator devices which integrate with an e-textile. The e-textile can be fabric or some other material. In this research these attachments are refered to ...

Electric Plaid TM- Dynamic Double Weave 1 ELECTRIC PLAID INFO AND SPECIFICATIONS IFM's patent pending electroncially controllable color change textile. This piece, "Dynamic Double Weave 1", is the work and invention of IFM's artistic director and chief technologist, Maggie Orth. Design and textile assistance was provided by IFM interns Ralph Nuara and Samantha Bittman. This piece consists of 8 hand woven Electric Plaid modules- each module has 8 unique color change areas, (or woven textile ...

Electro-textiles - Present and Future Organization : NCSU College of Textiles Lead member: Abdelfattah M. Seyam Status: Active Electro-textiles have attracted increasing attention in recent years. The combinations of textile structures that are lightweight, flexible, conformable, and strong, with electronics have aroused keen interest from many disciplines. With technological innovations appearing in both textile and electronics, integration of these has started giving benefits. Innovations ...

Electronic Tablecloths Maggie Orth, Rehmi Post, Peter Russo, Ben Vigoda and Pam Mukerji. An embroidered electronic tablecloth that let guests at a cocktail party play a game of Jeopardy. It contained an embroidered keypad, embroidered tag reader, coaster ID tags and display centerpieces. Exhibited at the MIT Media Laboratory and the National Textile Museum, Washington DC.

ElekSen Soft Wrist Phone The soft wrist phone was developed in parallel with the soft phone (next page); one phone module migrates between both products. The soft wrist phone comprises the watchband and the phone module. The phone module can be attached to any number of ElekTex bands, allowing a variety of band designs in a range of fabrics, and can be detached from the band and docked into other products. Buttons for the phone are spread across the band length, and stroking the fabric control ...

Elitex A new wiring technology is developed for electronic circuits on the basis of textile planar structures. The fabrics consist of one or more layers of metal wires woven between the polymer fibers. The layers are combined to spatial wiring structures with a high flexibility of the electrical design. The mechanical fixture is made with adhesive bonding. For electric contacts, filled adhesive bonds and solder ball bonding are used. The advantage of the construction is its mechanical complian ...

Elroy Megan Galbraith elroy is an illuminating dress that encodes time information. the panels periodically reaarrange their illuminated pattern to express time to the wearer. it is through series of flashes and varieties of patterns that elroy can express encoded information in a manner discernible to the wearer of the garment but indiscernible to external viewers. the dress and its wearer become engaged in an informative and personal relationhip. the wearer can decode needed information fro ...

EMS Now A wireless emergency medical contact device will send the users location and vital signs to the EMS team. designed by Josh Guyot

Energy aware sensor nodes Contact Person: Niroshan Perera Project Start : Winter 2002 Overview Wearable sensors (audio, acceleration etc.) need to be very energy efficient so that they can run for a long time on a small battery or energy harvested from the environment. Most of the wearable sensors need to do some local processing (e.g. signal filtering etc.) before sending the information to a master device. When the sensor node is running low on energy, local processing should resort t ...

eSleeve Here we present a novel configuration using the onHandPC combined with a speech recognition board, an electronic compass and a GPS receiver. The onHandPC is used as a display device and contains database and graphics software. The sensor devices respond to requests from the onHandPC via a 16F84 PIC microcontroller. This form factor demonstrates the attractive paradigm of speech input combined with display output. Though limited by the processing capabilities of the onHandPC (and the PIC), it is highly effective at demonstrating simple wearable applications ranging from location finding to augmented reality.

Expression Glasses Jocelyn Scheirer The Expression Glasses are a wearable device that allows any viewer to see a graphical display of a subset of the wearer's facial expressions. Currently, the glasses are capable of learning an individual's patterns and discriminating between confusion and interest expressions. Through two small pieces of piezoelectric film imbedded in the frames, the muscle movement in the corrugator and frontalis (eyebrow) muscles is measured and translated to a full-color ...

Multimodal, Compact, Wireless Sensing in Expressive Footwear Project This effort has resulted in a compact, wireless, low-power sensor card that telemeters 8 analog sensor channels (4 are conditioned for pressure measurements), plus bidirectional bend, 2-axis low-G acceleration (tilt), 3-axis high-G acceleration (shock), 3-axis DC magnetic field strength (orientation), angular rate about vertical (spin), height above an active floor (from a capacitive pickup), and translational position as deri ...

Wearables - Projects F+R Hugs How to feel the closeness of a distant loved one? Francesca Rosella, Rikako Sakai Millions of people are geographically separated from loved ones. Would it be feasible to meet the desire of humans to feel the closeness of a distant one? Could we find a way to enable a real time and physical sharing of emotions over distance, yet as immediate as a hug could be? This cool Lycra sporty top can transmit and receive the physical sensations of a "hug" - heartbeat, b ...

FABRIC DISPLAY: addressable textile pixels Joanna Berzowska joey@berzowska.com Assistant Professor, Concordia University Design Art and Digital Image/Sound &the Fine Arts Freida Abtan f_abtan@alcor.concordia.ca FABRIC DISPLAY: addressable color-change textile display made up of 64 fabric "pixels". ILLUSTRATION: What can an 8x8 display do? VISUALIZATION: Animation tool for visualizing the aesthetic qualities of the display. OBJECTIVES: To develop and build an electronically controllab ...

Fabric Interfaces Maggie Orth, Rehmi Post, Gili Weinberg To radically change the physical shape and feeling of technology, designers must also be able to change the materials from which it is made. Fabric Interfaces are just one example of what can happen when design materials, like fabric and thread, become electronic materials. The musical ball, a continuous-control, plush musical instrument, uses embroidered conductive thread as pressure sensors. These embroidered pressure sensors allow th ...

Fabrication In Fabrication, we investigate how information can be integrated into textile as an active part of the aesthetic pattern. By integrating information technology, we are developing dynamic patterns in the textile that change over time. Where traditional computer displays rely on textual information, we explore how an aesthetic and dynamic pattern could act as a means of communicating information. This projects acts as a focussed study of the visual communication potentials through t ...

FAERIE RING 1998 - 1999 KATHERINE MORIWAKI IN COLLABORATION WITH: JADE JOSSEN, CORBIN FRAME CHARLIE ZICARI DESCRIPTION The faerie ring is an interactive sound installation, and an exploration of interactive collaborative space. Seven balloons hang in a circle with embedded LED's and flex sensors. When a balloon is squeezed, a microcontroller senses the amount of pressure and triggers audio samples at corresponding levels of volume. The effect is eerie, magical, with intimations of wonder and discovery. MATERIALS & TECHNOLOGY BS2x Microcontroller, Flex Sensors, MIDI, Max EXHIBITIONS ITP Spring Physical Computing Show, New York 1999

Fashion Victims is a project by: Agnelli Davide Buzzini Dario Drori Tal website: fashionvictims.org News: Fashion Victims has just been exhibited at DIS 2004 in Cambridge (Ma). DIS is a venue (see pictures) for serious reflection on the practice of designing interactive systems... Hertzian Space Starting point for Fashion Victims is the investigation of the invisible world behind mobile communication, referring particularly to the space Fiona Raby and Tony Dunne define as Hertzian Spac ...

Fault Lines: Measurement, Distance and Place, 1995, in collaboration with Ingrid Bachmann. Internet weaving project linking galleries La Centrale and Side Sreet Projects. Seismic data is transmitted from geologic labs in Canada and California to the gallery in the alternate site. The data is downloaded into a weaving software programme and woven on a computer assisted handloom. Weavers operate the loom daily, creating a record of the day's seismic activity. Weave programme was an adapted version of ProWeave by Dini Cameron, Cameron Fibre Arts. Intermediary sofware written by Gordie Ishizuka.

Fiber Computing (FiCom) for the Public Welcome to the Public homepage for the Fibre Computing (FiCom) project. FiCom is an EU-funded project with the Disappearing Computer initiative. The main objective of FiCom is to integrate computing ability directly into fibres. Clothes, furniture and many other products can then be woven from these flexible and functional fibres.

Fingermouse 4 Building a new Fingermouse prototype Semester thesis by Simon Haegler and Simon Schneiter Introduction This work focussed on building a new hardware prototype in the fingermouse project Fingermouse Project. The goal was to build a compact, autonomous protype, for real world testing and for demonstration purposes. Goals Test Platform for future Tracking Algorithms In-System Programmable with JTAG Self-Configuration at Power-Up through Flash PROM Autonomous Operat ...

Firb The goal of this project is the implementation of tecnologies for building electronic structures on a textile substrate. The possibility of designing active electronic devices integrated on a textile substrate allows to think of the same structure as a wearable system, or more generally as a system suitable for covering surfaces of whatever shape and able to elaborate electronic signals. Such technology has many applications in a variety of fields, such as biomedicine, sport, multimedial ...

Firefly Dress and Necklace Maggie Orth, Emily Cooper and Derek Lockwood. A lighting electronic dress with fabric circuitry, power distribution plane and sensors. Exhibited at the National Textile Museum in Washington DC and the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery. Copyright (c) 2001 International Fashion Machines. All rights reserved. All materials may not be reproduced or copied without written permission. Contact info@ifmachines.com

NANOFABRICATION & NANOTECHNOLOGY Flexible Electronics Fabrication of integrated circuits directly on flexible substrates will enable many new applications such as wearable electronics, smart packaging materials, flexible flat panel displays, etc. We have developed the technology and demonstrated the first analog and digital circuits on flexible metal foils. We are currently developing Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode Displays on thin flexible stainless steel foil.

Flexible, organic solar cells for power generating textiles SOLTEX Research project PA/09 (Research action PA) Persons : MEYVIS T. Financed belgian partner Duration: 1/1/2002-31/12/2005 HEREMANS P. Financed belgian partner Duration: 1/1/2002-31/12/2005 VANDERZANDE D. Financed belgian partner Duration: 1/1/2002-31/12/2005 GEERTS Y. Financed belgian partner Duration: 1/1/2002-31/12/2005 Prof. dr. LAZZARONI R. Financed belgian partner Duration: 1/1/2002-31/12/20 ...

Wearables - Projects Flight Dreams How can we address the desire to fly? Dianna Miller, Simona Brusa Pasquè, Phyllis We have identified the potential for digital interactivity to be used as a style element rather than purely as a means of functionality. Exploring this potential involves looking at interactive behavior not in terms of utility, but in terms of imagination and identity (the ultimate "utility" of fashion). After exploring physical sensations associated with flight, our team cre ...

FLOWER AFM "What happens when fashion combines with technology? When we have REALLY flat cheap displays? How can we use new display materials as an element of fashion? How can we work with low cost, low resolution, simple function displays as design elements?" This animated flower is an eight pixel display designed by IFM and produced by E-ink. At IFM we imagine similar displays in a variety of applications- hand bags- boots- luggage- Simple displays and new display materials can be beautiful if they are designed well.

Formation of Electrical Circuits in Woven Structures Organization : NCSU College of Textiles Lead member: Tushar Ghosh Status: Active The subject research is being carried out at the College of Textiles as a part of a DARPA funded research project on Electronic Textiles. The objective is to build a new paradigm of flexible and conformable textile-based electronics that can be used in medical, military, robotics, and other civilian applications. It is to lay the foundation for automated high- ...

Frogman Project Description Shape Deposition Manufacturing (SDM) integrates material addition processes with material removal processes. Individual layer segments are deposited as near-net shapes, then accurately machined to net-shape, with a CNC mill, before depositing additional material. Each layer is composed of primary material(s) and complementary shaped sacrificial supporting material which is removed when the part is completed. At selected layers, prefabricated components can be placed ...

technical statement FRONT is comprised of two inflatable plastic suits, to be worn by two participants within a small arena. Each suit has two systems of air sacs, one for aggressive and the other, defensive response. The level of each participant's voice controls the inflation of their own aggressive sacs and the defensive sacs of the other person. The suits are made of thin polythene plastic sewn into sacs of varying sizes and shapes, making up a suit that straps onto the upper body of the ...

Frustration Detection in Human-Computer Interfaces Raul Fernandez Research Motivation Research in frustration detection in the Affective Computing group at the Media Lab has been inspired by the current disability of most human-computer interfaces to make inferences about the affective state of a user who is interacting with a computer. Consider the very familiar scenario of a (possibly novice) user who runs into a difficulty when using unfamiliar software, or when a piece of hardware fails t ...

Functional Fabric with Embedded Nanotube Actuators/Sensors Project No.: M03-CL07s. Competency: Materials Project Team: Leader: Prof. Nader Jalili (Mechanical Engineering), 864 656-5642, jalili@clemson.edu Expertise: Mechatronics, Piezoelectric Actuators and Sensors Design, System Dynamics, Modeling and Control of Mechanical/Textile Processes. Members: Prof. Bhuvenesh C. Goswami (Textile Engineering), gbhuven@clemson.edu Expertise: Nonwovens, Fiber and Yarn Spinning. Prof. Apparao M. Rao ...

Functionally Tailored Fibers and Fabrics Research Lead member:William King Status: Ended 11-30-1999 The 21st Century warrior will perform at unprecedented levels, while threatened by an array of ballistic, biological, chemical, directed energy, fire, thermal and environmental hazards, and subjected to increasingly sophisticated surveillance. New, low cost systems for hiding, protecting, and reducing the load on people are required. Four universities with complementary, world-class capabilitie ...

Technology My project is a result of what I hope that these technologies described above may achieve in the future. It is a clothing line made out of a fabric that works as a display. The entire surface of the fabric is the display. There will be tiny video streaming cameras embedded around the clothes. The surface of the clothes will display what the cameras capture from the surroundings. There will be a little computer woven inside the fabric, that works as a image/ music mixer. There are lit ...

Future-care A networked device that gives emergency room personnel the info they need about how soon a critical patient will arrive and the details of their vitals signs. designed by Nicole Magnani

Wireless Wearable System for Gait Evaluation This research involves the development of an on-shoe device that can be used for continuous and real-time monitoring of gait. This work involves the design of an instrumented insole and a removable instrumented shoe attachment, which will send data wirelessly, providing information about the three-dimensional motion, position, and pressure distribution of the foot. Algorithms will be developed to analyze the data in real-time, and results will be val ...

Glove Project Description: Design of a keyboard glove that senses the motion of the fingers to determine key strokes. Goals: Integration of sensing elements and wires in a fabric in a functional manner. Along with gaining experience with piezo-electric sensors.

CLOTHING The snowy slopes of a Swiss alpine glacier way above the tourist Piste may not seem the most hospitable place in the world, but it proved to be the ideal location for testing out the performance of newly designed Climbing Boots and Ski Gloves heated with Gorix E-CT. On the Fee Glacier high above the Swiss village of Sas Fee, the 12,000 foot high altitude testing got underway. With specially adapted ASOLO climbing boots and EXTREME ski gloves, inventor Robert Rix stood motionless in th ...

GORIX HEATED DIVESUIT Gorix Ltd have pioneered the use of Electro-Conductive textiles in clothing and over the years have developed the most advanced temperature control system for clothing. The well known Dive Suit Manufacturers, Typhoon International Ltd of Redcar England, have recently successfully negotiated for the world wide licence rights to use the XCM (eXtreme Climate Management) technology in dive suit products. The Gorix heating system is a major breakthrough in sub-aqua technology ...

GORIX SPACE EXPLORATION The termination of a space walk by a British Astronaut due to him developing cold hands and losing dexterity, was a graphic illustration of the necessity for an effective heating system capable of being built into garments and supplied with energy from a variety of power sources. The David Clark Company in Worcester Massachusetts, having heard of the development of Gorix E-CT, contacted the Gorix R&D unit in Southport UK to ascertain if Gorix could be the answer that th ...

HealthWear Armband The HealthWear Armband is a sleek, wearable body monitor that enables continuous data collection of low-level physiological data and derived lifestyle data to determine energy expenditure (calories burned). Worn on the back of the upper right arm, it utilizes a unique combination of sensors that continuously gather the following data: movement, heat flux, skin temperature, near-body temperature, and galvanic skin response. For expanded functionality, the HealthWear Armband ...

HealthWear System The HealthWear System is a revolutionary weight loss monitoring system utilizing a wearable body monitor, proprietary algorithms, and a user friendly Internet application. The HealthWear Armband uses a collection of sensors to gather information. Data from the body is then downloaded to www.HealthWear.com where proprietary algorithms are used to calculate the wearer’s caloric expenditure, number of steps, and duration of physical activity. The Internet application can also tra ...

HeartCam Specifications In one cup: NTSC infrared camera with filter to block out visible light; in the other cup: NTSC color camera. (The signal from one cup is suitable for low light conditions, while the signal from the other cup may be used in bright lighting.) 12 Volts DC operation; BNC or RCA video connectors. Wiring (provided by end user) required, for from the garment, to your own recording or transmitting device. If you're uncomfortable with the idea of doing your own wiring, you may prefer to get the DoubleWhammy, SatchelDome 5, AstroBoy, or NetPack, which are much easier to wire because of the spacious interiour of the pack or satchel. Proceeds from this effort go toward funding students and research in the University of Toronto Humanistic Intelligence Lab.

HearWear: The Fashion of Environmental Noise Display HearWear is an electronic wearable, which is not only a fashion apparel but also reacts to urban noise with moving light patterns. HearWear places the wearer and all passers-by in an environmental context with a playful display of urban sounds and noise pollution. [ Project Description ] For people living in the city, urban noise is such an omnipresent part of life that we forget to notice it. But every day, every minute, we are exposed ...

Heatable textiles BEKINOX® filament yarns are integrated in heatable textiles, providing safe, comfortable heating. E.g. : heatable blankets, heatable jackets Products : BEKINOX® VN/HT Advantages : very flexible durable highly electrically conductive washable

Wearable Showcase Wearable #6 Designer: Greg Priest-Dorman Design: Herbert Class: Modified Laptop Cost: N/A Weight: under 4lbs Power Consumption: 9-12hour battery life URL: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/wearable.html Key Features: Intel 486DX2/50 DecTalk Voice Synthesis 250M, 2.5in IDE HDD Modified BAT Keyboard Ethernet 3x 12watthour batteries DecTalk Express Text-to-Speech Linux OS

Wearable Showcase Wearable #12 Designer: Greg Priest-Dorman Design: Herbert III Class: PC104 Cost: N/A Weight: under 6lbs Power Consumption: 9 hours battery life URL: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/wearable.html Key Features: Intel P166/64MB CardPC DoubleTalk Voice Synthesis Liquid Image M1(HMD) IBM 4.8G, 2.5in IBM IDE HDD Modified BAT Keyboard PCMCIA Ethernet 2x Sony NPF-950 Li-Ion batteries Emacspeak Text-to-Speech Linux OS Baycom modem (Packet radio) Icom 2m/70cm HT. (currently on its own battery)

Wearable Showcase Wearable #11 Designer: Greg Priest-Dorman Design: Herbert2 Class: PC104 Cost: N/A Weight: under 6lbs Power Consumption: 8-10hour battery life URL: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/wearable.html Key Features: Intel P166/64MB CardPC DoubleTalk Voice Synthesis Liquid Image M1(HMD) IBM 1G, 2.5in IBM IDE HDD Modified BAT Keyboard PCMCIA Ethernet 2x Sony NPF-950 Li-Ion batteries Emacspeak Text-to-Speech Linux OS

Project: ...here nor there...at 'Millenium Square' A context driven project involving creative application of digital technology which promotes the integration of the physical with the digital. An inter-disciplinary project involving artist Annie Lovejoy and musician Roger Mills (members of the 'Here nor There' collective:an international network of media practitioners), and the Mobile Bristol project - a collaboration between the Computer Science Department at the University of Bristo ...

HFHSDL... "High Frequency High Speed Data Link" is a project that we are working on to allow for long distance wireless data links for our wearable computers and wearable thin clients (see Diskless "wear client". A major problem with wireless communications is distance vs. power. For a standard WLan (Wireless Lan) transceiver 10,000 - 15,000' is the maximum operating radius. We will be attempting to create a modulator based on random carrier frequencies that will be less suseptable to interference and allow for lower power transceivers to communicate further distances.

HugJackets The HugJackets take the idea of the LoveJackets a step further. While the LoveJackets represent a random act of courtship, a chance encounter, the HugJackets demand a deliberate act of union. An embrace between the two wearers activates, like in the case of the LoveJackets, a pattern of LEDs and a “bombastic” sound. If the LoveJackets begin a courtship, the HugJackets consummate it. An intricate quilted pattern made of conductive fabric is sewn on the front of each jacket. When t ...

Human-Enveloping Smart Spaces Introduction In almost all spaces, humans interact with an environment dominated by fabrics and flexible materials. The evolution of a Smart Space encompassing and directly about a human depends, crucially, on the fabrication of suitable and inexpensive hardware for sensing and transmitting information on the status of the human within the space. Thus, the hardware acts as a mechanism for the macroscale exchange of human and artificial intelligence and action. The ...

NTC Project: M01-CL03 (formerly M01-C03) Hybrid Polymer Nanolayers for Surface Modification of Fibers November 2003 National Textile Center Annual Report Project No. M01-CL03 Competency: Materials Leader: Igor Luzinov/Clemson University/ Polymer Layers/Email: luzinov@clemson. Members: Richard V. Gregory / Clemson Synthesis of Responsive Polymers Stephen H. Foulger/ Clemson Responsive Systems Vladimir V. Tsukruk /Iowa State Materials and Surface Science GOAL The ultimate goal of the pro ...

The I Sensed Series Brian Clarkson © 2001A I built a wearable computer (shown on the right) that I could wear for 100 days. This wearable has the following 4 sensors builtin: Forward looking 200° USB camera Backward looking 200° USB camera Forward mounted microphone 3D orientation sensor (yaw,roll,pitch) Thus the wearable records full surround video and audio along with my orientation as I wear it. The computational power is provided by a Pentium III 500MHz running on camcorder batteries. Storage for 2 days (10 hours/day) is provided by a 10 gigabyte harddrive. Each day's data is uploaded to a 0.5 terabyte storage server at MIT.

Megan Phalines, James Powderly AUDIENCE: Party people, club kids, dancers and voyeurs, blinky culture. Anyone who moves in the dark. DESCRIPTION: ilL shoes can sense and remember the intensity of a dancer, as well as interpret information from a wireless network. This data is then mapped and sequenced onto bands of luminescent wire to create a vibrantly-colored, dance-powered light show...below the knees. It is five thirty in the morning and the sun is rising behind the New York City skyli ...

Indoor and Outdoor MARS UIs Tobias Höllerer, Steven Feiner, Elias Gagas, Drexel Hallaway, Tachio Terauchi, and Sinem Güven UIs for Indoor/Outdoor Collaboration allow a roaming outdoor user to be monitored and provided with guidance by remote experts. In exchange, outdoor users can report their observations to the indoor personnel. For this project we developed a distributed infrastructure that allows us to connect diverse user interfaces (wearable, hand-held, stationary desk-top, stat ...

information deliverer In the Information Deliverer, we have used elementary acts of information technology use as a starting point. Information-handling acts such as opening, writing and reading information, have been reinterpreted using textile artefacts. The results are a kind of "abstract information appliances", i.e., things designed on basis of some elementary form of use, but where the expressions of use, rather than functionality in a more practical and concrete sense, are in focus. The ...

Organization : NCSU College of Textiles Lead member:Subhash K. Batra Status: Ended 11-30-2001 To bring together scientists/technologists who work at the interface of fiber science and technology on the one end and those who use fibers and fiber-based structures as critical elements in medical implants and prostheses, health care, protective materials, specialty shelters, space applications, reinforced cement, hazardous material storage devices, high-technology applications, smart materials, e ...

INSIDE/OUTSIDE (THE HANDBAG) The handbag is an accessory with a long history of evolution. Once called a reticule (or "ridicule" by men) in the 18th century, the handbag of today is seen as a status symbol, whose outward appearance is as telling as the inner contents. This project examines how the ordinary handbag, as a computationally enabled object in a ubiquitous & wireless networked environment can provide new insights into what we carry, what we collect, and how we make sense of our inner ...

MSJ014 - Intelligent Clothing for Children (2001/2) Active Partners and their contact details: Bolton Institute : Simon Wiggins (01204-903509) Mount St. Josephs High School (MSJ), Farnworth : Marian Jazmik (01204-391800) Key features and outcomes of the project: This project focussed on the use of intelligent materials and electronic devices, incorporated into garments so that parents and guardians might be alerted to hazards faced by young children in their care. It was a joint project und ...

Intelligent Stimuli-Sensitive Fibers and Fabrics Organization : NCSU College of Textiles Lead member:Sam M. Hudson Status: Ended: 04-30-2003 At present, none of the existing textiles spontaneously regulates its performance in a desirable manner when the surrounding environment changes. Recent progress in intelligent stimuli-sensitive polymers (SSP) has inspired our novel idea to create intelligent textiles which self-regulate structure and performance in response to the environmental variat ...

Intelligent textiles BEKINOX® fibres and filaments are used in intelligent textiles to provide power transfer, signal transfer, … Products : BEKINOX® VN, BEKINOX® VN/HT, BEKITEX® BK 50 Advantages : very fexible durable highly electrically conductive washable

interactive Pillows Stemming from the need for more subtle forms of communication to complement existing IT devices, this project explores interactive pillows as a means of enhancing long-distance communications. Through natural interaction with a pillow in one location, dynamic textile patterns are activated in a pillow located elsewhere. Expanding the vocabulary for remote communications through tangible and aesthetic interaction, the pillows offer a new repertoire of expressive possibilities ...

INTIMATE MEMORY This project focuses on the research and development of reactive garments that will display their history of use. We employ a variety of input and output methodologies to sense and display traces of physical memory on clothing. These garments record acts of intimacy and indicate time elapsed since the intimacy events have occured.

Intrabody Signalling In 1995 Tom Zimmerman and Neil Gershenfeld realized that the weak low-frequency fields that the Physics and Media Group were using for sensing contained information that was being used to separate them from background noise. Instead of otherwise ignoring this information, it could be modulated to send data through the body to create a Personal Area Network (PAN). This means that personal information stays with the user where it belongs rather than being radiated out to the surroundings where it could cause interference or be eavesdropped, and that physical gestures can contain logical meaning so that a handshake could exchange business cards, a hand on a doorknob could unlock it, or fingers touching a keyboard could transmit a cryptographic key.

ION is a walk-man size wearable computer that allows information to go anywhere, anytime. In the same way that the walk-man allowed stereo components to be carried and used portably, we have reduced the size of computer as well as input and output components. The entire system including batteries weighs less than three pounds. Designers Chris Kasabach Senior Industrial Designer, EDRC John Stivoric Senior Industrial Designer, EDRC

iPAQ based Wearable Computer Short Overview uses Compaq iPAQ (StrongARM based) running Linux as computing core my (preliminary) iPAQ pages Twiddler (version 1) chording keyboard as input device Alternatively can use a Palm Foldable Keyboard Connectivity using a WaveLAN Wireless Network Card uses a BOB-II (serial ASCII in - NTSC out) module for video output to a Head Mounted Display (HMD) Modified Twiddler driver that allows to use both the Twiddler and the BOB-II at the same seria ...

Iris this bag likes to play Megan Galbraith iris is an interactive handbag that was built using the nylon programming language and hardware. when iris swings past the legs of it's moving owner, the circle designs on either side flash on and off in a jagged alternating rythm. the bag makes quick clicking noises in sync with the flashes of light. the result is a sense of electricity and spark that resonates with the movement of the owner.

ISAAC Project Description ISAAC (Integrated Speech Activated Application Control) is a technology feasibility prototype which explores capabilities in the low-weight, low-energy area assuming two types of communication infrastructure (i.e., sparse and dense). ISAAC uses speech for communicating with infrastructure in special rooms around campus. A wireless microphone transmits analog speech to a speech recognition system on a workstation in the corner of the room. The workstation controls devi ...

IT + TEXTILES Textiles and computational technology share a common background in the early days of automation and industrial production. Today, we see a new opportunity for these two – by now – rather disparate areas to be rejoined in an investigation of new design spaces for everyday things. We work with a research program motivated by the need for an aeshetics of, and design methods for, the use of new textiles and computational technology as design materials. We aim to combine perspectives ...

Itsy/Cue Computer Introduction The Itsy/Cue prototype computer is a derivative of the DEC (Compaq) Itsy, a StrongARM-based palm-sized device. The Itsy/Cue design extends the original WRL work by adding two Type-II PCMCIA slots, 48MB of DRAM (in addition to the 16MB on the Itsy), 12MB of flash RAM (in addition to the 4MB on the Itsy), and a lithium ion battery with recharging circuitry (to replace the alkaline cells on the Itsy). Within the Wearable Group, the Itsy has provided a flexible plat ...

jAugment Project Overview So you build yourself a wearable or another type of computer with uncommon UI-modalities? (3d, aureal, 4x20-LCD, morse-code, ...) But you already know that most software you use can either not be used effeciently with your I/O-modalities or can not cope with common situations like very sporadic network-avaliability. All these are problems this project aims at reducing. Here we try do develop a set of applications to be used with different kinds of wearables that ar ...

Karhu A tactile wilderness navigation device that provides the wearer with information via a wireless network. It also uses shape recognition material to fit your body and to facilitate different sized packs. designed by Christopher Kurtz

Kneph A personal digital necklace with full audio interface - for recording thoughts, ideas keeping meeting notes or storing personal data. designed by Elizabeth Geuder

Lint centers around the metaphor of gathering lint by accidentally making contact with others. Electronic whiskers exchange simple data when brushed against each other, building on the notion of inadvertent momentary physical contact as an opportunity for exchange. The collected data is displayed on the body as colored light and becomes an abstraction of intersecting paths and trajectories throughout the day

Lizzy: MIT's Wearable Computer Design 2.0.5 Why 2.x?: This is the second generation of these plans. The first generation was never released except internally. Why "Lizzy?": Comes from a talk David Ross (Atlanta Veteran's Administration R&D) gave at the Boeing workshop about how the Model T Ford was nicknamed the "Tin Lizzy." Everyone adapted it to whatever task needed to be done: winching wagons, pumping water, taking the family to church, etc. It is my hope that these instructions will enab ...

LoveJackets A pair of jackets emits, and polls for a particular signal. Once the pair finds each other, in at least 10 feet distance, facing each other, the two beep – emitting a sound akin to crickets mating, and a pattern of LEDs blinks (light emitting diodes; small, bright, energy efficient lights). Each jacket responds only to its unique pair. The technology used is basic: an infra-red receiver and transmitter, a PIC chip (programmable interrupt controller) that controls the LEDs and sp ...

Luminescent Raincoat elise co This project juxtaposes electricity and water in a raincoat that luminesces in response to droplets of rain. Embroidered water sensors act as inputs to a system with sealed electroluminescent panels that illuminate based on patterns of rain. The raincoat/cape and hood recall the retro-futuristic designs of Pierre Cardin and Andre Courreges in the sixties while incorporating computational behavior beyond an aesthetic notion of what technology looks like. ' ' ' ...

Magic Glasses Semester thesis by Claudio Ghislini and Remo Köppel The goal of this project was to design a wearable device, which can tell when the user is looking at an object of interest. In addition it should be able to initiate one or more actions dependent on those objects. This concept could be used as a digital tourism guide or as an automatic door opener that helps disabled persons finding their way through a building. During the winter semester 00/01 Claudio Ghislini and Remo Köppe ...

Mapper Garment Project Description: Design, simulation and prototype development of a wearable e-textile mapper garment. Goals: The goal of this project is to model and create a mapper garment which is capable of mapping out the floorplan of the building through which the user walks. The garment makes use of ultrasonic transducers for the same. The first phase of the project is to simulate the mapper garment to achieve an optimal configuration and the second phase of the project is to construct a physical prototype of the mapper garment.

Fingerpainting is usually abandoned at an early age as manual dexterity improves and the use of tools is introduced. I particularly enjoy the fine control of 10 individual fingers and making a big mess so I created a painting system which focused on hand gestures and allowed for color control. I used Nikita Pashenkov's Alpha Dev board to capture analog information.

The mbracelet was developed to investigate the introduction of wearable computing applications in financial transactions, and in particular for use with ATM machines. The mbracelet is able to store, share and collect information. At the same time it can be worn as a fashion accessory. It has 3 slots that can receive interchangeable iButtons (developed by Dallas Semiconductors). This enables users to customize the information they want to "carry" with them at any given time. A 2-wire interfac ...

MCNC Project Organization : NCSU College of Textiles Lead member: Abdelfattah M. Seyam Status: Active The specific objectives of the proposed research work are: • To form textile based circuits that are manufactured with conductive and nonconductive constituents using innovative interconnect/disconnect techniques. • To demonstrate the effectiveness of interconnect/disconnect techniques by building an example of a textile based circuit with electric components. • To develop textile based structures to store/generate DC electrical power (textile battery).

MD-6 Critical Data Viewer Working in conjunction with patient-monitoring equipment, the MD-6 Critical Data Viewer displays vital signs, cath lab images or other critical data in a crisp floating image right before clinicians’ eyes — allowing them to focus on the patient and operative field. Without obstructing your natural field of vision, the viewer duplicates the live display of your monitor as a floating image positioned a few feet in front of you — displaying vitals in real-time. By keep ...

meaningful mappings of body data Joanna Berzowska joey@berzowska.com Assistant Professor, Concordia University Design Art and Digital Image/Sound &the Fine Arts It is easy to get sensor data. We can sense position and acceleration. We can track gaze; record muscle tension. With instruments such as a Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) sensor, a Blood Volume Pulse (BVP) sensor, a Respiration sensor and an Electromyogram (EMG) we can even suggest some degree of "affective sensing"... The hard part i ...

Melody Tube With embroidered pressure sensors. Designed for creating to accompanying melody lines. Maggie Orth

MeMoGa (Methods and Models of Intelligent Garment Design) The focus of this project is to improve wearable services and activities to make them as accessible and usable as possible for all. The aim is to develop frameworks that help to initiate R&D projects on new generation garments and environments for ubiquitous computing in the next few years. On the other hand, the aim is to produce applications in the area of ubiquitous computing and intelligent garments and create product concepts in the field of wearable intelligence. Funding by the Finnish Academy, Proactive Computing programme. Partners: University of Lapland, University of Kuopio and TUT. 2003-2005.

MeMoGa - Methods and Models for Intelligent Garment Design The Research Project started in the beginning of 2003 and is carried out by University of Lapland, Tampere University of Technology and University of Kuopio in Finland. Funded by Finnish Academy in the Program of 'Proactive Computing' during 2003-2005. Project manager: Heikki Mattila Researchers: Päivi Talvenmaa, Mailis Mäkinen The focus of this project is to improve wearable services and activities to make them as accessible a ...

The Memory Glasses Project The Memory Glasses is a wearable, proactive, context-aware memory aid based on the MIThril platform and wearable sensors. The primary goal of this project is to produce an effective memory aid and reminder system that requires a minimum of the wearer's attention. Our Memory Glasses paper that was published in ISWC 2003 describes recent research on the use of subliminal visual cues for memory support. The function of our system is to deliver reminders to the wearer i ...

Titre Memory Rich Clothing Année de début 2004 Axe de recherche Textiles interacti