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» "Smart'' Clothing
   Paper presenting a framework for interacting with external processes through the development of a utility for person-worn computing as an alternative to desktop and portable computers. Author: Steve Mann.
   http://www.wearcam.org/smart_clothing/

» A Design Research Program for Textiles and Computational Technology
   Technical paper presenting a proposal for a new research program aimed at deepening our understanding of computational technology and textiles as design materials, and of the interplay between spatial and temporal form elements in design. Authors: L. Hall
   http://www.math.chalmers.se/~lars/design_program.pdf

» A New Approach to Obtain Data About the Charge Decay in Samples of Textiles for ESD Garments
   Technical paper presenting the results of research concerning a special charge decay characterisation of carefully tribocharged samples of composite textiles. Authors: G. Coletti and others.
   http://estat.vtt.fi/publications/eic2003.pdf

» A New Route Through Wearable Interfaces for Healthcare
   Overview of ongoing European projects aimed at the development of textile based wearable interfaces for healthcare applications with integrated fabric sensors for physiological signals. Authors: Giannicola Loriga and others.
   http://www.biotex-eu.com/pdf/phealth07_wearableinterfaces.pdf

» A Sensate Liner for Personnel Monitoring Applications
   Technical paper about a research program aimed at developing technologies for the creation of clothing able to monitor the medical condition of military combat personnel, by incorporating in woven or knitted fabrics electrically and optically conductive f
   http://www.computer.org/proceedings/8192/pdf/81920098.pdf

» A Service Backplane for E-Textile Applications
   Technical paper, describing fault tolerance, physical configuration and processing element selection as the three services primarily affected by the e-textile design space, based on an analysis of different case studies. Authors: Mark Jones, Tom Martin an
   http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/etextiles/publications/services.pdf

» A Smart Suit for the Monitoring of Physiological Parameters
   Includes technical paper, describing the development of textile based garments for the monitoring of electrocardiagrams and respiration rates of children, containing sensors and interfaces, data handling and storage, transmission electronics and wireless
   http://www.koalaresearch.net.au/PeursR.pdf

» A Textile Based Capacitive Pressure Sensor
   Technical paper introducing an approach for decoding the pressure information exerted over a broad piece of fabric by means of capacitive sensing. Authors: M. Sergio and others.
   http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/classes/MAS965/readings/TextilePressureSensor.pdf

» Ambient Intelligence Visions and Achievements: Linking Abstract Ideas to Real-World Concepts
   Article reflecting the issues discused at the Special Session on Ambient Intelligence Visions and Achievements, bringing together the European Union's view on information technology, specifically novel computing substrates based on electronic textiles. Au
   http://www.es.ele.tue.nl/epicurus/publications/date03.pdf

» An E-Textile System for Motion Analysis
   Technical paper about electronic textiles as home health care devices which integrate into the wearer's everyday lifestyle, presenting an inexpensive design approach usable with elderly people. Authors: Josh Edmison and others.
   http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/papers/edmison_2003_NGWSH03_etextile.pdf

» Analysing the Use of E-Textiles to Improve Application Performance
   Technical paper presenting a methodology based on simulation and physical experimentation for quantifying energy consumption and hardware cost savings of e-textiles. Authors: Mark Jones and others.
   http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/papers/jones_2003_VTC03_paper.pdf

» Architectures for E-Textiles
   Doctor of Philosophy dissertation focusing on defining the architecture and networking scheme of electronic textiles, the creation of a simulation environment, and the implementation of hardware prototypes. Author: Zahi S. Nakad.
   http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12232003-113641/unrestricted/Dissertation.pdf

» Body Sensor Network based on Soft Polymer Sensors and Wireless Communications
   Technical paper presenting a comparison between established non-wearable systems and a novel prototype polymer fiber based wearable device for monitoring breathing frequency in healthcare applications. Authors: Sarah Brady and others.
   http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/vol02/no05/jcm02050106.pdf

» Challenges and Opportunities in Electronic Textiles Modeling and Optimization
   Technical paper addressing the emerging field of research that combines the strengths and capabilities of electronic and textile technologies, and illustrates the challenges imposed by their modeling and optimization methodology. Authors: Diana Marculescu
   http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~dianam/conferences/dac02.pdf

» Clevertex. Part I
   Report on the state of the art of smart textiles in 2005, including descriptions of the materials, applications and prototypes existing at the time. Part of a preparatory study for an European Commission funded development program aimed at the electronic
   http://www.clevertex.net/Image/documents/State%20of%20the%20art.pdf

» Clevertex. Part II
   Socio-economic study of the European clothing and textile industry, and an analysis of the social needs and trends which will influence the development of intelligent textiles. Part of a preparatory study for an European Commission funded development prog
   http://www.clevertex.net/Image/documents/socio%20eco.pdf

» Clevertex. Part III
   First part of a Delphi feasibility study for the development of the smart textile industry, describing the methodology, organization and results of a first round survey. Part of a preparatory study for an European Commission funded development program aim
   http://www.clevertex.net/Image/documents/DELPHI%20REPORT%20Part%20I.pdf

» Clevertex. Part IV
   Second part of a Delphi feasibility study for the development of the smart textile industry, providing a statistical analysis of the results of the second survey and a review of key conclusions. Part of a preparatory study for an European Commission funde
   http://www.clevertex.net/Image/documents/DELPHI%20REPORT%20Part%20II.pdf

» Clevertex. Part V
   Scenario studies based on surveys aimed at analysing the European electronic textile industry, providing concrete examples of future potential applications of smart textiles. Part of a preparatory study for an European Commission funded development progra
   http://www.clevertex.net/Image/documents/Scenario.pdf

» Clothing that Changes Colour to Match Your Mood
   Short article about intelligent fibers, and interactive or smart textile technologies for biomedical and military applications, and their future use in fashion and clothing. From Express Textile.
   http://www.expresstextile.com/20030911/itintextiles01.shtml

» Communications in Electronic Textile Systems
   Technical paper about the communication requirements between the computing and sensing elements of e-textiles, and a presentation of a new algorithm based on token grid systems. Authors: Z. Nakad and others.
   http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/papers/nakad_2003_CIC03_paper.pdf

» Computational Clothing and Accessories
   Technical paper about the development of clothing and clothing accessories which act as stand-alone computers, able to process, store, retrieve and send information. Authors: Woodrow Barfield and others.
   http://csis.pace.edu/~ctappert/dps/pdf/wearable-barfield.pdf

» Conductive, Sensorial and Luminescent Features in Textile Structures
   Review of the current state of techniques and actual developments in the field of conductive and computational textiles, and a discussion of their functional properties. Technical paper presented at the IFAW 2006. Authors: U. Meuhring.
   http://spring.bologna.enea.it/ifawc/2006/proceedings/IFAWC2006_20.pdf

» Current Distribution Modelling of Electroconductive Fabrics
   Technical paper investigating the distribution of electrical current within woven electroconductive textile fabrics. Authors: Jedrzej Banaszczyk and others.
   https://biblio.ugent.be/input/download?func=downloadFile&fileOId=719444&recordOId=719435

» Design of E-Textiles for Acoustic Applications
   Master of Science thesis focusing on the design of electronic textiles for acoustic signal processing applications, and presenting the design process and performance analysis of a large-scale beamforming fabric and a speech processing vest. Author: Ravi R
   http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10292003-122518/unrestricted/thesis.pdf

» E-Broidery: Design and Fabrication of Textile-Based Computing
   Technical paper describing the patterning of conductive textiles by numerically controlled sewing or weaving processes as a means of creating computationally active textiles. Authors: E.R. Post and others.
   http://www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-article/pdffiles/e-broidery--design-and-fabrication-of-textile-based-computing.pdf?PDFPTOKEN=b76d1660ba3e532e796a57339ede1b5bb2d40485|1218920499#PDFP

» E-Tags: E-Textile Attached Gadgets
   Technical paper describing the design and implementation issues of e-Textile Attached Gadgets (e-TAG's) with a presentation of the system architecture, connection techniques, communication alternatives and experiences from the construction of a prototype
   http://www2.corepower.com:8080/~dlehn/projects/research/publications/CNDS-2004.pdf

» Electrical Characterization of Textile Transmission Lines
   Technical paper presenting the electrical characterization and modeling of conductive textiles for wearable computing. Authors: Didier Cottet and others.
   http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~cottet/publications/cottet2003.pdf

» Electroactive Fabrics for Distributed, Conformable and Interactive Systems
   Technical paper about the monitoring of body kinematics, and the analysis of human postures and gestures by using strain gage sensors woven into textile fabrics developed to create wearable clothing based systems. Authors: D. de Rossi and others.
   http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/classes/MAS965/readings/derossi1.pdf

» Electronic Textiles for Autonomous Location Awareness
   Master of Science thesis describing an autonomous, wearable electronic textile location awareness system able to determine a user's location within a building. Author: Madhup Chandra.
   http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12142004-193827/unrestricted/mchandra_thesis.pdf

» Electronic Textiles for Motion Analysis
   Master of Science thesis presenting the design of a simulation environment for wearable electronic textile systems for medical purposes, and demonstrating the use of the simulation via a prototype pair of e-textile pants. Author: Joshua N. Edmison.
   http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05282004-163029/unrestricted/etd_final_C.pdf

» Electronic Textiles: A Platform for Pervasive Computing
   Includes technical article presenting an overview of current efforts and challenges in the development of electronic textiles, and a discussion about possible venues and opportunities for future research. Authors: Werner Weber and others.
   http://ccm.ece.vt.edu/etextiles/publications/ProcIEEE_2003_etextiles.pdf

» Fiber Bragg Sensor Interrogator Based Macrobending
   Technical paper presenting a novel low-cost fiber based interrogator system for fiber optic Bragg sensors for strain measurement, tested in a textile platform designed for wearable devices. Authors: S.M.B. Correia and others.
   http://ptee2007.tnw.tudelft.nl/Papers/Correia_paper.pdf

» Fiber Computing
   Technical paper describing a potential physical layer for wearable computing, defined by the fabrication of transistors onto fibers and their integration into textile fabrics. Authors: Ozan Cakmakci and others.
   http://www.cellmatrix.com/entryway/products/pub/Cakmakci2001.pdf

» Functional Fabric with Embedded Nanotube Actuators and Sensors
   Includes paper about a new seed-level project of the US National Textile Center, proposing the development of next-generation electronic textile fabrics utilizing single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) composites. Project leader: Prof. Nader Jalili.
   http://www.ntcresearch.org/pdf-rpts/AnRp03/M03-CL07s-A3.pdf

» Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard
   Description of the development, application and impact of a patented computing t-shirt for military uses, developed by the Georgia Tech University.
   http://www.gtwm.gatech.edu/gtwm.html

» Integrated Microelectronics for Smart Textiles
   Introduction to wearable electronic textile technology and its potential applications, and descriptions of conductive fibers and interconnect technologies. Author: Friedrich Gustav Wachter.
   http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/fileadmin/documents/courses200607/ambient-intelligence/ami-report-19_Wachter_Integrated_Microelectronics_for_Smart_Textiles_-_PAPER.pdf

» Intelligent Textiles
   Includes summary of the different types of electro-conductive textile fabrics and products, and descriptions of their characteristics and applications. Links to related sites. From the Tampere University of Technology.
   http://www.tut.fi/units/ms/teva/projects/intelligenttextiles/

» Intelligent Textiles, Soft Products
   Technical paper providing an overview of material alternatives and properties available to designers of electronic textiles, and the advantages of incorporating electronic and interactive textiles in human clothing. Authors: André Norstebo.
   http://www.ivt.ntnu.no/ipd/docs/pd9_2003/Norstebo.pdf

» Interactive Electronic Textile Development
   Technical paper examining the strengths and limitations of potential supporting technologies for the development of interactive electronic textiles. Authors: D. Meoli and T. May-Plumlee.
   http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/jtatm/volume2issue2/articles/meoli/meoli_full.pdf

» Interactive Electronic Textiles
   Thesis presenting a study of technologies, applications, opportunities and market potentials of the emerging area of interactive electronic textiles. Author: Dina Meoli.
   http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05212002-104138/unrestricted/etd.pdf

» Light Emitting Textiles for Fashion and Health
   Workshop report exploring the functional and psychological requirements for, and the applications of light emitting and color changing materials in textiles, fashion, health and related research areas.
   http://www.intelligent-media.org/files/active/0/Smart_Wkshop_Report.pdf

» Manufacturing and Performance Assessments of Several Applications of Electrotextiles and Large-Area Flexible Circuits
   Technical paper presenting the design and material challenges of electrotextile and large-area flexible circuit membrane structures in engineered applications for military, commercial and aerospace devices. Authors: David P. Cadogan and Lauren S. Shook.
   http://www.ilcdover.com/products/aerospace_defense/supportfiles/mrs_etextiles_2002.pdf

» Micromachine Based Fabric Formation Systems
   Technical paper describing a National Textile Center research project aimed at developing fundamentally new approaches for the processing of fibers into textile structures using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology.
   http://www.ntcresearch.org/pdf-rpts/AnRp98/f98-s12.pdf

» Modeling and Simulating Electronic Textile Applications
   Technical paper about the development of a simulation environment for electronic textiles, enabling the modelling of a diverse range of areas related to the design of e-textiles. Authors: Thomas Martin and others.
   http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/papers/jones_2004_LCTES04_modeling.pdf

» Modeling of Power Consumption and Fault Tolerance for Electronic Textiles
   Master of Science thesis focused on research aimed at creating simulation models for power consumption and fault behaviour of electronic textile applications, and presenting simulation results of the performance of an acoustic beamforming textile in the p
   http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10162003-005726/unrestricted/tsheikh_2003_thesis.pdf

» Modeling, Analysis and Self-Management of Electronic Textiles
   Technical paper presenting a detailed analysis of two techniques for adapting applications to the error prone electronic textile hardware substrate. Authors: Phillip Stanley-Marbell.
   http://www.gigascale.org/pubs/416/T-Comp_Aug.03.pdf

» New Materials as Precursors for Smart Fibers, Textiles, Sheets and Structures
   Short paper discussing the properties of novel smart polymer fibers and the complex textile structures created with them, as well as a review of smart properties in glass and ceramic materials. Author: Lubomiir Sodomka.
   http://texmail.ca/002/files/002BrU053kb70Bt2BPC7/new-materials.pdf

» Nonwoven Protective Garments with Thermo-Regulating Properties
   Technical paper about research aimed at improving the thermo-physiological wearing comfort of nonwoven protective garments by applying phase change materials (PCM) to the fabrics. Author: Barbara Pause.
   http://jit.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/33/2/93.pdf

» Organic Transistors on Fiber: A First Step Towards Electronic Textiles
   Technical paper presnting the possibility of forming flexible transistors directly on fibers without resorting to conventional lithography techniques. Authors: Josephine B. Lee and Vivel Subramanian.
   http://organics.eecs.berkeley.edu/pdf/IEDM03.PDF

» PadNET: Wearable Physical Activity Detection Network
   Technical paper describing a low power, distributed platform that combines a wide range of different sensors in a wearable, hierarchical network. Author: Holger Junker and others.
   http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/iswc/2003/2034/00/20340244.pdf

» Piezoresistive Sensors for Smart Textiles
   Technical paper presenting the results of an experiment of using an inkjet printing system to deposit silver conducting lines and small conducting polymer sensors, onto textile fabrics to form electronic textiles for the monitoring and measurement of body
   http://www.tesumassd.org/faculty/calvert/papers/spieanimesh.pdf

» Potential Space Applications for Body-Centric Wireless and E-Textile Antennas
   Technical paper, exploring the possibilities of electronic textile materials for the development of antenna systems for use in space environments. Authors: T.F. Kennedy and others.
   http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20070008109_2007006177.pdf

» Preparation of Electroconductive Textiles Based on a Modular Templating Process
   Technical paper presenting the development of a novel method for the preparation of electroconductive textiles which allows for the more seamless integration of the electronic functionality. Authors: Sayed A. Ashraf and others.
   http://www.csiro.au/files/files/p3x8.pdf

» Printing Conductive Inks on Nonwovens: Challenges and Opportunities
   Doctor of Philosophy thesis presenting an investigation into using conductive inks for printing flexible circuit boards onto nonwoven substrates as a low cost alternative to rigid printed circuit boards (PCBs). Author: Burcak Karaguzel.
   http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12082006-130952/unrestricted/etd.pdf

» Printing Electronic Circuits onto Nonwoven Conformal Fabrics Using Conductive Inks and Intelligent Control
   Research project of the National Textile Center (NTC), investigating the screen printing of transmission lines into a variety of nonwoven substrates using different condustive inks for durable and wearable electronic textile applications.
   http://www.ntcresearch.org/pdf-rpts/AnRp06/F04-NS17-A6.pdf

» Real-Time Visualization of Woven Textiles
   Technical paper presenting a new technique for visualizing woven textiles in real time by employing the multi-texturizing approach. Authors: N. Adabala and others.
   http://www.miralab.unige.ch//repository/papers/179.pdf

» Reconfigurable Fabric: An Enabling Technology for Pervasive Medical Monitoring
   Technical paper describing the Reconfigurable Fabric project at the University of California, LA, aimed at developing textile fabric in which computation, storage and communication are integrated in the weave structure. Authors: Fang-Chung Chen and others
   http://www.utdallas.edu/~rjafari/publications/conf/cnds04_03.pdf

» Sensing Fabrics for Monitoring Physiological and Biomechanical Variables: E-Textile Solutions
   Technical paper presenting an overview of the experience accumulated during the last years with implementing wearable systems for personalized health care and their evolution in time. Authors: M. Pacelli and others.
   http://www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/myheart/public/public_results_documents/documents/3rd%20IEEE%20EMBS%20ISSS-MDBS%202006%20CDROM%2001-2142.pdf

» Smart Clothes: The MIT Wearable Computing Web Page
   Introduction and resource of technical information to the field of wearable computing, including links to related sites.
   http://www.wearcam.org/computing.html/

» Smart Clothing
   Assignment outline about the manufacture, structure, properties and applications of Georgia Tech University's "Wearable Motherboard" fabrics for commercial and military sensing and computing clothing and textiles. Author: Jee Park.
   http://ldt.stanford.edu/%7Ejeepark/jeepark%2Bportfolio/cs147hw8jeepark.html

» Smart Clothing: A New Life
   Overview of recent publications about smart textiles, its applications and current state of development. Authors: Paul Kiekens and others.
   http://www.iafnet.com/files/iaf_03_presentations/Smart%20Clothing-%20a%20new%20life.pdf

» Smart Fabric, or Washable Computing
   Wearable computers can now merge seamlessly into ordinary clothing. Using various conductive textiles, data and power distribution as well as sensing circuitry can be incorporated directly into wash-and-wear clothing. Paper describing a number of techniqu
   http://web.media.mit.edu/~rehmi/fabric/

» Smart Textiles
   Short description of a project within the framework of the Soldier Warrior Systems Technologies, with the aim to investigate and develop the methodology and manufacturing processes for integration of electrical and optical conductive networks, sensors and
   http://www.photonicslabs.com/Assets/downloads/smarttextiles.pdf

» Smart Textiles in Vehicles: A Foresight
   Technical paper describing the application possibilities of smart textiles in general, and in climate control and detection of reduced driver attention in automotive vehicles in particular. Authors: Lieva Van Langenhove and Carla Hertleer.
   http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/jtatm/volume3issue4/Articles/Langenhove/langenhove_full_76_03.pdf

» Smart Textiles: Advances in Technology
   Classroom presentation of the principles, technology and applications of smart textiles, by Prof. Jose E. Gonzalez.
   http://www.ualberta.ca/~jag3/smart_textiles/

» Soft Computation through Conductive Textiles
   Technical paper outlining various methods for constructing electronic textiles and threads, as well as traditional textile construction methods as sewing, embroidery and appliqué with various conductive and active materials to create interactive fabrics.
   http://www.xslabs.net/papers/iffti07-berzowska-AQ.pdf

» Strain-Sensing Fabrics for Wearable Kinaesthetic-Like Systems
   Technical paper presenting a description of the polymerization process used to realize strain sensors, the characterization of strain-sensing textile fabrics, and the thermal and mechanical transduction properties of strain sensors from electroactive poly
   ftp://www.piaggio.ccii.unipi.it/pub/papers/IEEE_sensor_journal_2003.pdf

» Textiles Gain Intelligence
   Feature article from the Materials Today magazine about developing techniques and technologies for the incorporation of wires, circuits, optical fibers, conductive yarns and sensors into woven fabrics to create intelligent textiles. Author: Paula Gould.
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6X1J-49KRMTY-10-F&_cdi=7244&_user=10&_orig=search&_coverDate=10/31/2003&_sk=999939989&view=c&wchp=dGLzVlz-zSkWW&md5=b766121e21f4a6bc36beae5ac6a4df47&ie=/sdart

» The Basic Problems of Textronics
   Technical paper describing the technological difficulties of integrating textile science, electronics and computer science into the new interdisciplinary branch of science designated as textronics. Authors: Krzisztof Gniotek and Izabela Krucinska.
   http://www.fibtex.lodz.pl/45_06_13.pdf

» The Embroidered Musical Ball
   Paper describing a soft tactile computerised musical instrument in which embroidered pressure sensors replace the hard, bulky continuous control sensors common in most computer instruments. Authors: Gili Weinberg, Maggie Orth and Peter Russo.
   http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~gilwein/images/ballchifinal.pdf

» The Information Curtain: Creating Digital Patterns with Dynamic Textiles
   Short article about the development of interactive curtains for display purposes, created with fibers which change color according to the amount of ultra-violet light it is exposed to. Author: Linda Melin.
   http://www.viktoria.se/fal/publications/play/2001/info-curtain.pdf

» Towards a Design Framework for Wearable Electronic Textiles
   Technical paper presenting a design framework for wearable electronic textiles, focusing on design and simulation issues that arise from the interaction of the electronic textile, the human body, and the environment. Authors: Thomas Martin and others.
   http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/papers/martin_2003_ISWC03_etextile_design.pdf

» Usability of Textile-Integrated Electrodes for EMG Measurements
   Technical paper describing electromyographic (EMG) monitoring of body movements, heart rate and electrical muscle activity with textile-integrated electrodes. Authors: Niina Lintu and others.
   http://www.myontec.com/media/conferenceEMG300605.pdf

» Using Piezoelectric Materials for Wearable Electronic Textiles
   Technical paper describing the desirable characteristics of piezoelectric materials for wearable e-textiles, including shape sensing, sound detection and sound emission, and a description of a prototype of a glove for user input. Authors: J. Edmison and o
   http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/papers/edmison_2002_ISWC2002_piezoelectric.pdf

» Wanted - A Textile Mobile Device
   Paper presenting the process of design and development of a three finger glove wirelessly connected to a mobile phone where the interaction takes place mainly by voice and hand gestures. Author: Lena T.H. Berglin.
   http://www.cs.chalmers.se/idc/publication/pdf/berglin_wanted.pdf

» Wearable Computing Meets Ubiquitous Computing
   Technical paper describing the fundamental difficulties in both the pure ubiquitous computing and pure wearable computing paradigms when applied to context-aware applications, and a proposal for the solution of such. From The Proceedings of The Third Inte
   http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/Papers/wearhive.html

» Wearable Conductive Fiber Sensors for Multi-Axis Human Joint Angle Measurements
   Technical paper, describing the development of a wearable human joint motion sensor for continuous, day to day monitoring in medical and rehabilitation applications. Authors: Peter T. Gibbs and H. Harry Asada.
   http://darbelofflab.mit.edu/files/Web-Posting-Goneometer-Peter-Gibbs-All-Final-2-05.pdf

» Wearable Health Care System for Vital Signs Monitoring
   Technical paper presenting a novel system for continuous remote monitoring of user vital signs, where smart fibers and yarns are integrated and used as basic elements to be woven or knitted in fabric form. Author: R. Paradiso.
   http://www.wealthy-ist.com/uploads/itab2003_paradiso.pdf

» White Paper on Smart Textiles
   Overview of the state of the current situation in the smart textiles market, written for traditional textile companies and electronics industries. Published by Ohmatex ApS.
   http://www.ohmatex.dk/pdfer/whitepaper_smart_textiles.pdf

» e-TAGs: E-Textile Attached Gadgets
   Technical paper describing the design and implementation issues involved in the development of electronic textile components, as well as the system architecture, connection techniques, communication alternatives, and experiences from the construction of a
   http://crib.lehn.org:8080/~dlehn/projects/research/publications/CNDS-2004.pdf

» sEMG Measuring by Garments
   Technical paper, presenting recent developments of incorporating disposable metallic surface electromyography electrodes (sEMG) into garments for the monitoring and study of muscle activity. Authors: A. Sipila and others.
   http://www.arbetsliv.eu/nes2007/papers/A73_Sipila.pdf