Wearable computing technology

Keywords— Strip-type Conductive Fabric Sensor, Method Evaluating Rehabilitation Status, Wearable Computing Technology. 

Furthermore, it is possible to apply the proposed conductive fabric sensor to wearable computing technology if the pants which are made of the strip-type conductive fabric sensor can be utilized to estimate rehabilitation status in near future. 

Chi, E.H., Song, J., Corbin, G., 2004. Killer App of wearable computing wireless force sensing body protectors for martial arts. In Proceedings of the 17th Armual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 24—27th October, Santa Fe, USA, pp. 277-285. 

Smart textiles are made possible due to advances in many technologies coupled with the advances in textile materials and structures. A partial list includes biotechnology, information technology, microelectronics, wearable computers, nanotechnology and microelectromechanical machines. 

Smart textiles is a new aspect in textile that is a multidiscipline field of research in many sciences and technologies such as textile, physics, chemistry, medicine, electronics, polymers, biotechnology, telecommunications, information technology, microelectronics, wearable computers, nanotechnology and micro-electromechanical machines. Shape memory materials (SMMs), conductive materials, phase change materials (PCMs), chromic materials, photonic fibers, mechanical responsive materials, intelligent coating/membranes, micro and nanomaterials and piezoelectric materials are applied in smart textiles [34]. 

James Weiland is an associate professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California. He is interested in technology to assist the blind, and the main focus of his research is an implantable retinal prosthesis. His research group investigates the interface between the retina and the implantable stimulator in order to optimize the visual abilities of patients. They are also developing wearable computer vision systems for aiding blind people. 

The new generation of silicon technology imaging transducers combined with ongoing electronic miniaturization and the availability of extremely fast and powerful portable laptop computers will lead to the development of portable or even wearable high-resolution scanners affording wireless data transfer. This technology will help to make communication with remote locations and advanced medical applications more affordable. 

Moreover, significant advances in mobile computing, wireless communications, and network technologies, integrated with parallel advances in pervasive and wearable systems, have had a radical impact on modern healthcare systems. Mobile health (m-health) is propelling the evolution of e-health systems from traditional desktop telemedicine platforms to wireless and mobile configurations [20]. 

S. K. Bahadir, Wearable Obstacle Avoidance System Integrated With Conductive Yams for Visually Impaired People (Ph.D. thesis), Universite LiUe, Sciences et Technologies, Computer Engineering/Automation, France, 11/2011. 

Wearable technologies have become extremely developed over the years in the textiles industries (Microsoft, 2015 CNET, 2015 Samsung, 2015). Most of them focus on the development of wearable equipment such as watches and glasses to help wearers to communicate and acquire data. The world is aware of the importance of wearable devices and their huge market and business value. Portability, invisibility, flexibility, and feasibility have become the trends of electronic devices. In the apparel industries, research has started to integrate miniaturized electronic components into textile fabrics (Google, 2015). Google and Levi Strauss have started a special project called Project Jacquard with the industries to fabricate jeans that can connect with a computer, tablet, or telephone. 

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