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  • Recommended Readings

    If you did not take the Smart Wearables course in autumn 2023 and do not have prior knowledge about e-textiles, we encourage you to read the following papers.

    • Ates, H.C., Nguyen, P.Q., Gonzalez-Macia, L. et al. End-to-end design of wearable sensors. Nat Rev Mater 7, 887–907 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-022-00460-x
    • Ismar E, Kurşun Bahadir S, Kalaoglu F, Koncar V. Futuristic Clothes: Electronic Textiles and Wearable Technologies. Glob Chall. 2020 Mar 18;4(7):1900092. doi: 10.1002/gch2.201900092. PMID: 32642074; PMCID: PMC7330505.

    The articles below are related to user-centered design for wearables.

    • L. Francés-Morcillo, P. Morer-Camo, M. I. Rodríguez-Ferradas and A. Cazón-Martín. The role of user-centered design in smart wearable systems design process. In Proceedings of International Design Conference 2018, pp. 2197-2208.  https://doi.org/10.21278/idc.2018.0405
    • Morcillo LF, Morer-Camo P, Rodriguez Ferradas MI, Cazón Martín A. The Wearable Co-Design Domino: A User-Centered Methodology to Co-Design and Co-Evaluate Wearables. Sensors (Basel). 2020 May 21;20(10):2934. doi: 10.3390/s20102934. PMID: 32455756; PMCID: PMC7287997.
    • Imbesi S, Scataglini S. A User Centered Methodology for the Design of Smart Apparel for Older Users. Sensors (Basel). 2021 Apr 16;21(8):2804. doi: 10.3390/s21082804. PMID: 33923514; PMCID: PMC8073818.

    The following articles would give you an overview of the principles of designing for wearability, and showcase the design processes of smart garments, such as Skill-Sleeves and active compression stockings. 

    • Clint Zeagler. 2017. Where to wear it: functional, technical, and social considerations in on-body location for wearable technology 20 years of designing for wearability. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 150–157. https://doi.org/10.1145/3123021.3123042
    • Jarrod Knibbe, Rachel Freire, Marion Koelle, and Paul Strohmeier. 2021. Skill-Sleeves: Designing Electrode Garments for Wearability. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 33, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3440652
    • Robert Pettys-Baker, Rachael Granberry, Niharikha Subash, Megan Clarke, Heidi Woelfle, Surbhi Shah, Julianna Abel, and Brad Holschuh. 2022. Wearability and Comfort Improvements to Active Compression Stockings for Lower Leg Compressive Therapy. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 127–130. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544794.3560812
    • Andreoni G. Investigating and Measuring Usability in Wearable Systems: A Structured Methodology and Related Protocol. Applied Sciences. 2023; 13(6):3595. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13063595
    • Nam, C., Lee, YA. Validation of the wearable acceptability range scale for smart apparel. Fash Text 7, 13 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40691-019-0203-3

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