Four peer reviewed proceedings based on work presented by the group at the E-Textiles 2024 conference have recently been published as part of the conference’s proceeding on IEEE Xplore.
‘Vibrotac-Glove: Designing a Novel Haptic Glove as an Assistive Device’ describes a glove made with yarn-embedded haptic actuators. The work tests a glove prototype with health volunteers to understand how they perceive different haptic signals. The work also explores the refinement of the glove design based on the human trials and other important considerations such as sustainability.
‘Further Optimization of Solar Electronic Yarns for Developing Large, Stretchable Knitted Textile Solar Panel’ introduces a textile solar panel created using solar cell embedded E-yarns that is both stretchable and breathable. The work overviews some key design work that led to the panel, as well as presents its characterisation, including electrical performance, stretch, and breathability.
‘Development and Optimisation of Textile-Based Optical Sensors for Cardiac Health Monitoring’ presents a pulse rate measuring glove. The proceeding builds on earlier work by the group and develops a new glove utilising E-yarns created using the method developed in the ‘Manufacturing Electronic Yarns’ project. The glove was tested with health human subjects proving the efficacy of the design. This proceeding is linked to the work that led to Mrs Peiris winning the best student poster award at the conference.
Finally, ‘The design and development of a temperature sensing vest for the monitoring of on-body skin temperature’ presents a temperature sensing vest that was designed to replace the need for skin-mountable thermistors for understanding thermoregulation. A fairly close relationship between the temperature sensing E-yarns and skin-mounted thermistors was observed, and trends in skin temperature changes could be seen using the E-yarns in most cases.
Manufacturing Electronic Yarns 