Future Trend in Wearable Electronics in the Textile Industry
Chi Wai Kan, Yin-Ling Lam
Abstract
Smart wearable textiles can sense, react, and adapt themselves to external conditions or stimuli, and they can be divided into active and passive smart wearable textiles, which can work with the human brain for cognition, reasoning, and activating capacity. Wearable technology is among the fastest growing parts of health, entertainment, and education. In the future, the development of wearable electronics will be focused on multifunctional, user-friendly, and user acceptance and comfort features and shall be based on advanced electronic textile systems.
Topics & Concepts
Wearable computerWearable technologyEntertainmentElectronicsHuman–computer interactionComputer scienceTextileEngineeringArchitectural engineeringElectrical engineeringEmbedded systemVisual artsArtHistoryArchaeologyAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsGreen IT and SustainabilityInteractive and Immersive Displays