A team from the ATRG, including Dr Hughes-Riley and Dr Rahemtulla (pictured), presented at the AMC Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) conference in Honolulu earlier this month. The laboratory demonstration presented focused on electronic textiles related to health, wellbeing, and protective applications. Textiles on display included an acoustic sensing hat, temperature sensing sock, motion sensing over-sock, textile solar panel, and glove that is capable of providing haptic feedback. The demonstrators are all outcomes from the ‘Production engineering research for the manufacture of novel electronically functional yarns for multifunctional smart textiles’ project and showcase the improvements made to the technology made over the project’s duration. The demonstration also included a video of the manufacturing process developed. For more information an extended abstract about the demonstration (including a video) is available here.
Manufacturing Electronic Yarns 