Developing novel temperature sensing garments for health monitoring applications
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 9R - 697068
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.3390/fib6030046
- Title of journal
- Fibers
- Article number
- fib6030046
- First page
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- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 2079-6439
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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C - Fashion and Textiles Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This work takes a research through making approach to create a series of novel temperature sensing garments including an armband, a glove, and a sock. This provides a unique insight into making garments using temperature sensing yarn (TSY), and how TSYs will interact with a user.
Human-centred temperature sensing has a variety of health monitoring applications. Textiles make an ideal substrate for mounting temperature sensors onto the skin as they are comfortable, conformable, and breathable. Non-textile, skin-mounted temperature sensors do not possess all of these properties, making them less comfortable to the user. Many other wearable temperature monitoring devices are not easily concealed and literature has shown that patients prefer wearables that integrate into their day-to-day lives while remaining hidden from view: It is therefore important to create temperature sensing garments that conceal their electronic functionality.
This work conceptualized and identified the feasibility of developing temperature sensing textiles using TSYs. In order to integrate these temperature sensing yarns into garments, new knitting techniques had to be developed, creating important new knowledge.
Rigorous experimental work explored practical considerations for skin-based temperature measurements, such as contact pressure and the radius of curvature.
While the temperature sensing sock was presented in earlier work, here further details of the design considerations for the sock have been presented, along with a preliminary user study. The fitting of the sock was identified as a factor towards the efficacy of the temperature measurements.
This research received funding from Dstl to develop the TSY for non-freezing cold injury applications, which is a significant concern to the UK Armed Forces. This work shows that the temperature sensing sock should provide a level of accuracy required for this application.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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