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Stefan Schneegass, Mariam Hassib, Bo Zhou, Jingyuan Cheng, Fernando Seoane, Oliver Amft, Paul Lukowicz , Albrecht Schmidt
SimpleSkin: Towards Multipurpose Smart Garments
UbiCompt/ISWC'15: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (bib)

Smart textiles have been researched in the lab over the last 20 years. However, the gap between research and available mass-market products is huge. We identify challenges that are the core reasons for this gap. To tackle these challenges, we present our work towards a multipurpose smart textile with different sensing modalities. It separates the concern of developing textiles, electronics, infrastructure, and applications. Furthermore, it uses a similar application model as current smart-phones allowing developers to create applications for the smart textiles. We believe that this approach is capable of moving smart textiles from niche to mainstream.