Wearable Electronics and Photonics (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles) - Hardcover

9781855736054: Wearable Electronics and Photonics (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855736055 ISBN 13: 9781855736054

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing, 2005

Building electronics into clothing is a major new concept, which opens up a whole array of multi-functional, wearable electro-textiles for sensing/monitoring body functions, delivering communication facilities, data transfer, individual environment control, and many other applications. Fashion articles will carry key pads for mobile phones and connections for personal music systems; specialist clothing will be able to monitor the vital life signs of new-born babies, to record the performance of an athlete s muscles, to call a rescue team to victims of accidents in adverse weather conditions. A team of distinguished international experts consider the technical materials and processes that will facilitate these new applications.

Key Features: stay one step ahead of the industry on this hot topic; evaluates the major new concept of integrating electronics into clothing; explores future trends for fashion and specialist clothing; essential guide for all electrical, textile and biomedical engineers as well as academics and fashion designers.

Contents: Electrostatically generated nanofibres for wearable electronics; Electroceramic fibres and composites for intelligent apparel applications; Electroactive fabrics and wearable man-machine interfaces; Electromechanical properties of conductive fibres, yarns and fabrics; Integration of fibre optic sensors and sensing networks into textile structures; Wearable photonics based on integrative polymeric photonic fibres; Communication apparel, optical fibre fabric display; Wearable computing systems electronic textiles; Data transfer for smart clothing: requirements and potential technologies; Interaction design in smart textiles clothing and applications.

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From the Back Cover:

Integrating electronics into clothing is a major new concept,
which opens up a whole array of multi-functional, wearable electro-textiles
for sensing/monitoring body functions, delivering communication facilities,
data transfer, individual environment control, and many other applications.
With revolutionary advancements occurring at an unprecedented rate in many
fields of science and electronics the possibilities offered by wearable
technologies are tremendous and widespread. These advancements will
transform the world and will soon begin to permeate into commercial
products.

The first section of the book discusses the materials and devices used in
the field, including electro-statically generated nanofibres,
electroceramic fibres and composites and electroactive fabrics. It
summarizes recent developments in electrically conductive fabric structures
and puts together a few theoretical treatments of the electro-mechanical
properties of various fabric structures. The next section reviews topics
related to wearable photonics such as fibre optic sensors and integrated
smart textile structures, the developments in various flexible photonic
display technologies as well as looking at current communication apparel
and optical fibre fabric displays. Next the book focuses on integrated
structures and system architectures. Finally the issues facing a fashion
designer working with wearables are explored.

Wearable electronics and photonics covers many aspects of the cutting-edge
research and development into this exciting field and provides a window
through which only a small portion of the exciting emerging technology can
be seen. With contributions from a panel of international experts in the
field this is an essential guide for all electrical, textile and biomedical
engineers as well as academics and fashion designers.

About the Author:

Xiaoming Tao is Head and Chair Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Xiaoming Tao is Chair Professor and Head of the Institute of Textiles and Clothing. Graduating with a Beng in Textile Engineering and a first-class prize for undergraduate students from the East China Institute of Textile Science and Technology in 1982, She gained her PhD in Textile Physics from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1987. Prof. Tao is an elected fellow of the Textile Institute International and the Hong Kong Institution of Textile and Apparel. She is a member of various professional societies including the Optical Society of America, the American Institute of Physics, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Chinese Society of Textile Engineers and the Hong Kong Society of Materials Research and the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

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