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Within the scope of the European MyHeart project, researchers at the Wearable Computing
Laboratory are working on an automatic dietary monitoring system. At the conference UbiComp in
Japan in 2005, they presented their first results. They demonstrated that sounds from the user’s
mouth can be used to detect that he/she is eating and even different kinds of food can be recognized
by analysing the chewing sound. So far, the sounds are acquired with a microphone located inside the
ear. However, in future they want to investigate other components of a dietary system, among them
are a collar electrode for the detection of swallowing motions [216].
2.9.2.3 MERMOTH
MERMOTH is a European Commission co-financed research projects that contributes to medical
remote monitoring of clothes. Nine partners from different European countries worked together for
three years from 2003 to 2006 to develop a comfortable, wearable monitoring unit, which will be based on a
wearable interface. The objectives of the project are one the one hand to design a combined textile / hardware
and software architecture for a family of wearable clothes which provide continuous ambulatory
monitoring of patients in academic research and the clinical trials of drugs and on the other hand to
build prototype sets of garments which address the two applications market with different
compromises between power / distribution and consumption, user friendliness, relevance of the
collected data and cost of ownership [217].
2.9.2.4 Flexifunbar
Flexifunbar is an integrated project in the sixth framework of the European Commission in the scope of
the thematic call “Nanotechnologies and nanosciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials,
new production processes and devices” (NMP). Partners from industry and academic organisations
and institutions from different European countries join the project to develop hybrid multi-barriereffects
materials, based on multi layer complex structures and functionalisation of micro- and
nanostructures. The development of such materials covers various application fields, such as
transportation, home and building and health. The project started on October 1st, 2004 and will last for
four years [218].
2.9.2.5 Avalon
Avalon - Multifunctional textile structures driving new production and organizational paradigms by
textile SME interoperation Across high-added-VALue sectOrs for knowledge-based product/service
creation – is another 4 year lasting project within the 6th framework programme NMP of the European
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