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Electroactive fabrics for distributed, comfortable and interactive systems.

Federico Lorussi·Alessandro Tognetti·Mario Tesconi·Giuseppe Zupone·Raphael Bartalesi·Danilo De Rossi
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Monitoring body kinematics has fundamental relevance in several biological and technical disciplines. In particular the possibility to know the posture exactly may furnish a main aid in rehabilitation topics. In the present work a collection of innovative and unobtrusive garments able to detect the posture and the movement of the human body are introduced. This paper deals with the design, the development and the realization of sensing garments, from the characterization of innovative comfortable and spreadable sensors to the methodologies employed to gather information on the posture and movement. Several new algorithms devoted to the device operation are presented and tested. Data derived from the sensing garment are analyzed and compared with the data derived from a traditional movement tracking system.

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Biomechanical PhenomenaBiomedical TechnologyBiosensing TechniquesClothingHumansMedical InformaticsMonitoring, AmbulatoryTextilesJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Federico Lorussi, Alessandro Tognetti, Mario Tesconi, Giuseppe Zupone, Raphael Bartalesi, Danilo De Rossi. 2005. Electroactive fabrics for distributed, comfortable and interactive systems.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16282649/

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