Members of the Advanced Textiles Research Group have recently presented work in Berlin (Germany) at the ‘6th International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles (E-textiles 2024)’. The team included Thelge Peiris (2nd year doctoral candidate), Parvin Ebrahimi (3rd year doctoral candidate), Malindu Ehelagasthenna (3rd year doctoral candidate), and Theo Hughes-Riley (associate professor). Ms Ebrahimi and Mr Ehelagasthenna both gave oral presentation, while Mrs Peiris and Dr Hughes-Riley presented posters.
All of the presented work involved E-yarn developments. The following work was presented:
Development and Optimization of Textile-Based Optical Sensors for Cardiac Health Monitoring (poster)
The design and development of a temperature sensing vest for the monitoring of on-body skin temperature (poster; Kalana Marsinghe first author)
Vibrotac-Glove: Towards the Development of Advanced Haptic Textiles for Enhancing Deaf-Blind Interactions (oral presentation)
Further Optimization of Solar Electronic Yarns for Developing Large, Stretchable Knitted Textile Solar Panels (oral presentation)
Full, peer-reviewed proceeding articles linked to this work will be published shortly.
A highlight of the conference was Mrs Peiris winning the best student poster award for her work on optical sensing.
Manufacturing Electronic Yarns 