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“#Conductive seams, when strategically placed in clothing, can accurately track body motion: study<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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When positioned strategically, garment seams sewn with conductive yarn can be used to accurately track body motion, according to computer scientists at the University of Bath in the UK. Best of all, these charged seams are able to respond to subtle movements that aren’t picked up by popular fitness trackers, such as watches and wristbands.<\/p>\n

In a new study, the Bath researchers found that clothing made with conductive seams can be analyzed to identify the wearer’s movements.<\/p>\n

Ph.D. student Olivia Ruston, who presented the work at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems conference this month, said: “There are lots of potential app<\/a>lications for conductive yarn in any activity where you want to identify and improve the quality of a person’s movement. This could be very helpful in physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and sports performance.”<\/p>\n

Groups of scientists have been creating flexible, textile sensors for garments for some time, but the Bath project is the first where researchers have experimented with the location and concentration of conductive seams. They found that where seams are placed on a garment, and the number of seams that are added, are important considerations in the design of a movement-tracking smart garment.<\/p>\n

Ms Ruston says that “there’s great potential to exploit the wearing of clothing and tech\u2014a lot of people are experimenting with e-textiles, but we don’t have a coherent understanding between technologists and fashion designers, and we need to link these groups up so we can come up with the best ideas for embedding tech into clothing.”<\/p>\n


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