CAREER: Toward Pervasive Wearable Technology: A Cut-and-Sewn, Textile-Integrated Smart Clothing Platform

职业：走向普及的可穿戴技术：裁剪和缝制、纺织集成的智能服装平台

• 批准号: 1253581
• 负责人: Lucy Dunne
• 金额: $ 39.97万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-01 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1253581&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Toward; Pervasive; Wearable; Technology

Wearable technology has the ability to facilitate pervasive, continuous understanding of and interaction with the human wearer through garment-integrated wearable sensors and interface technology. However, clothing is more flexible, mobile, and intimate than most electronic technologies, and presents unique challenges for design and manufacture. Start-up costs of developing garments for each application of wearable technology are high. The primary objective of this project is the investigation of a flexible, adaptable garment-integrated architecture for sensing and actuating technologies that will facilitate the development of a wide variety of applications without the need for new hardware development. In addition to flexibility of function, the integration of hardware components into garment structures emphasizes the methods of cut-and-sewn, mass-manufactured apparel. This focus lowers the barrier-to-entry to smart clothing and wearable technology for apparel manufacturers while simultaneously preserving the human factors of apparel including aesthetics and physical comfort. Widespread, pervasive wearable technology would allow medical conditions to be continuously and imperceptibly monitored without requiring a clinical visit or hospital stay, and would allow personal devices to become context-aware, providing information and alerts that are responsive to the activities, objectives, and social context of the user. Smart clothing can shift the frontiers of healthcare and medical monitoring, human-device interface, apparel consumption and use, and many other fields. Innovation and expertise in the production of electronic textiles and clothing offers strong competitive advantage to the US apparel industry. Further, smart clothing development effectively bridges many interdisciplinary fields, including the predominantly-female field of clothing design. Activities supported by this project expand the participation of women in STEM disciplines and encourage interdisiplinarity in education.

可穿戴技术能够通过服装集成的可穿戴传感器和接口技术，促进对人类穿戴者的普遍、持续的理解和交互。然而，服装比大多数电子技术更加灵活、移动和亲密，给设计和制造带来了独特的挑战。为每种可穿戴技术应用开发服装的启动成本很高。该项目的主要目标是研究用于传感和驱动技术的灵活、适应性强的服装集成架构，该架构将促进各种应用的开发，而无需开发新的硬件。除了功能的灵活性之外，将硬件组件集成到服装结构中还强调了裁剪和缝制、大规模生产服装的方法。这一重点降低了服装制造商进入智能服装和可穿戴技术的门槛，同时保留了服装的人性化因素，包括美观和身体舒适度。 广泛普及的可穿戴技术将允许在无需临床就诊或住院的情况下持续、不知不觉地监测医疗状况，并使个人设备具有情境感知能力，提供响应活动、目标和社交的信息和警报。用户的上下文。智能服装可以改变医疗保健和医疗监控、人机界面、服装消费和使用以及许多其他领域的前沿。电子纺织品和服装生产的创新和专业知识为美国服装行业提供了强大的竞争优势。此外，智能服装的开发有效地连接了许多跨学科领域，包括以女性为主的服装设计领域。该项目支持的活动扩大了女性对 STEM 学科的参与，并鼓励教育的跨学科性。