Smart Clothing: Technology and Applications
Features
- Defines the six elements of smart clothing technology: interface, communications, energy supply, data management, processors, and actuators.
- Covers smart apparel manufacturing technology
- Explains smart clothing technology standards
- Presents design and modeling of electronic textile applications
- Illustrates the integration of plastic optic fiber into textile structure
- Discusses electrically conductive fiber material for signal and power transferring
Summary
With contributed chapters from various authors, this book covers the state of the art in smart clothing technology and applications, which includes textile-based keypads, transmission lines, sensors, and actuators. The authors address usability and human aspects relevant to the manufacture and sale of such products, and they detail the evolving and increasingly wide-ranging applications related to fields such as information, healthcare, and entertainment. Smart clothing technology topics addressed in the book include interface, communication, energy supply, data management, processors, and actuators. It also discusses packaging and interconnection, shape memory alloy, and design and modeling of electronic textile applications.
Table of Contents
Review and Reappraisal of Smart Clothing, G. Cho, S. Lee, and J. Cho
Designing Technology for Smart Clothing, J. Lee, H.-S. Cho, Y.-J. Lee, and H.-K. Cho
Standardization for Smart Clothing Technology, Y.G. Ji and K. Lee
Electro-Textile Interfaces: Textile-Based Sensors and Actuators, K.S. Jeong and S.K. Yoo
Integration of Plastic Optical Fiber into Textile Structures, M.S. Lee, E.J. Park, and M.-S. Kim
Hardware and Software Architectures for Electronic Textiles, M.T. Jones and T.L. Martin
Humanistic Needs as Seeds in Smart Clothing, S. Duval, C. Hoareau, and H. Hashizume
Shape Memory Material, C.G. Cho
Methods of Evaluation for Wearable Computing, D. Ashbrook, K. Lyons, J. Clawson, and T. Starner
Fundamentals of and Requirements for Solar Cells and Photovoltaic Textiles, J.-H. Jeon and G. Cho
Index
Author Bio(s)
Dr. Gilsoo Cho is a professor of the Department of Clothing and Textiles at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea since 1984. She got her B.S. and M.S. in Clothing and Textiles at Seoul National University in 1978 and 1980, respectively, and her Ph.D. in Clothing and Textiles at Virginia Tech in 1984.
Professor Cho currently focuses her research on the development of smart textiles and clothing. She is one of the Korean pioneers in the field. She successfully mentored 20 master students and 7 doctor students on diverse aspects of textile and apparel science, and published approximately 90 articles during the last ten years. Besides, she led various research projects, notably a 5-year project for the "Technological development of smart-wear for future daily life" funded by the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economics until 2009. Her works involve scholars from several leading universities worldwide as well as partners from Korean industrial companies.
Professor Cho is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society since 2005, and stands on the editorial board of Fibers and Polymers since 2000 and is currently serving as an associate editor of the Journal. She has obtained 10 patents covering topics as diverse as switches in fabrics, simulations for fabric sounds, and photovoltaic yarns. She has appeared in Marquis Who's Who both in science and business since 2003. She was recognized as one of the top 100 scientists in 2005 by the International Biographical Center, and received an award from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies at the same year.
