Smart clothes and wearable technology

McCann, Jane; Bryson, David

doi:10.1533/9781845695668

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“…Affective computing may help to detect stressed emotional states for team members to initiate support from collaborators. For example, wearable technologies can sense heart rate and perspiration for understanding if someone is stressed or not [33]. Creating future decision-support tools where data from the wearable technologies can be used to alert the team leader about the stressed team members may help to support the emotional states of team members.…”

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Supporting novice clinicians cognitive strategies: System design perspective

Islam

Mayer

Clutter

2016

2016 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)

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Infections occur among all clinical domains. The changing nature of microbes, viruses and infections poses a great threat to the overall well-being in medicine. Clinicians in the infectious disease (ID) domain deal with diagnostic as well as treatment uncertainty in their everyday practice. Our current health information technology (HIT) systems do not consider the level of clinician expertise into the system design process. Thus, information is presented to both novice and expert ID clinicians in identical ways. The purpose of this study was to identify the cognitive strategies novice ID clinicians use in managing complex cases to make better recommendations for system design. In the process, we interviewed 14 ID experts and asked them to give us a detailed description of how novice clinicians would have dealt with complex cases. From the interview transcripts, we identified four major themes that expert clinicians suggested about novices’ cognitive strategies including: A) dealing with uncertainty, B) lack of higher macrocognition, C) oversimplification of problems through heuristics and D) dealing with peer pressure. Current and future innovative decision support tools embedded in the electronic health record that can match these cognitive strategies may hold the key to cognitively supporting novice clinicians. The results of this study may open up avenues for future research and suggest design directions for better healthcare systems.

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Supporting novice clinicians cognitive strategies: System design perspective

Islam

Mayer

Clutter

2016

2016 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)

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“…User doesn't really understand the advantages of wearing such devices because often these devices are perceived as uncomfortable and alien to users. This occurs especially when the requirements referring to the formal and ergonomic characteristics are not well accomplished well as adaptability and adhesion to the body and dimensions of the housing [28]. There are different theoretical definitions about comfort, but all of them embrace the concept of creating harmony between the individual and environment and avoiding unpleasantness on all levels of existence.…”

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Wearable Technology as a Tool to Motivate Health Behaviour: A Case Study

Ferraro¹,

Stepanovic²,

Ferraris³

2018

Wearable Technologies

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According to the Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits, work-related exposures are estimated to account for about 15% of all adult respiratory diseases. Today, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is the only way for workers to prevent disease. Nevertheless, its use is highly sparse. Currently, products and systems embedded with wearable technologies are able to protect, motivate and educate users. The authors then suggested the development of a novel wearable system following the beliefs that wearable technology can be persuasive and elicit a conscious behaviour towards the use of the PPEs by consequently improving their health condition. The authors here describe the result of a Transnational Research Project named "P_O_D Plurisensorial Device to prevent Occupational Disease." The chapter describes the findings achieved so far, the research phase and the new wearable system conceived as a possible example of how to use wearable technology as a useful tool to influence behavioural change.

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“…The development of smart wear is a new challenge for the textile and clothing industry: it has to develop products based not only on design, fashion and comfort concepts but also in terms of functions [14]. Moreover, these products must be easy to care and durable [24].…”

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“…This is a field of innovation that broadened the scope of the traditional textile and apparel products to high-tech textiles, designed to meet specific needs [14], involving different technologies [9,3] and produced according to required properties, like personal protection [19,17,10], safety [14], leisure [7] or health wear [12]. Just as in classical electronics, the construction of electronic capabilities for electrotextiles requires the usage of conducting pathways on fabric constructions.…”

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Design Methodology And Performance Studies Of A Flexible Electrotextile Surface

Kayacan

Bulgun

et al. 2015

Autex Research Journal

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‘The smart textiles’ concept has to develop products based not only on design, fashion and comfort but also in terms of functions. The novel electro-textiles in the market open up new trends in smart and interactive gadgets. ‘Easy to care and durability’ properties are among the most important features of these products. On the other hand, wearable electronic knitwear has been gaining the attention of both researchers and industrial sectors. Combining knitting technology with electronics may become a dominant trend in the future because of the wide application possibilities. This research is concerned primarily with the design methodology of knitted fabrics containing electrically conductive textiles and especially in-use performance studies. The structural characteristics of the fabrics have been evaluated to enhance the performance properties.

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Smart clothes and wearable technology

Cited by 119 publications

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Supporting novice clinicians cognitive strategies: System design perspective

Supporting novice clinicians cognitive strategies: System design perspective

Wearable Technology as a Tool to Motivate Health Behaviour: A Case Study

Design Methodology And Performance Studies Of A Flexible Electrotextile Surface

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