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Environmental Ergonomics XII<br />

Igor B. Mekjavic, Stelios N. Kounalakis & Nigel A.S. Taylor (Eds.), © BIOMED, Ljubljana <strong>2007</strong><br />

Invited presentation<br />

132<br />

SMART CLOTHING AND WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY,<br />

APPLICATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES IN SCIENCE AND<br />

INDUSTRY<br />

Hilde Færevik*, Arne Røyset**, Frode Strisland***, Jarl Reitan*<br />

*SINTEF Health Research, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway<br />

**SINTEF Materials and Chemistry,N- 7465 Trondheim, Norway<br />

***SINTEF ICT, N-0314 Oslo, Norway<br />

Contact person: hilde.fervik@sintef.no<br />

1. State of the art<br />

2. Applications<br />

SmartWear is defined as technologies for and applications of clothing textiles with<br />

added<br />

functionality and tailored properties based on the application of multi-functional<br />

materials and/or integrated instrumentation.<br />

Examples of application fields for smart clothing and wearable technology are:<br />

• Protective clothing for extreme working conditions, e.g. fire fighters (give a<br />

warning signal when the heat stress rises to a dangerous level)<br />

• Smart textiles in protective, sport and leisure clothing, e.g. improved<br />

temperature regulation in cold and warm environment.<br />

• Health care sector, e.g. patient clothing with integrated sensors which follow<br />

the state of the patient and give a warning signal if it gets critical.<br />

3. Challenges and expectation for the future textile and clothing industry in<br />

Europe<br />

4. Cooperation between science and industry<br />

The development of SmartWear products requires a true integration of key expert<br />

competences within the fields of design, material technology, instrumentation and<br />

physiology in close cooperation between science and industry.

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