title: MagIC: a textile system for vital signs monitoring. Advancement in design and embedded intelligence for daily life applications.
abstract: We recently developed a textile-based system for the unobtrusive assessment of vital signs. The system, named MagIC, was originally designed to collect data in elderly people and cardiac patients while living in a confined environment. Extending the area of application of MagIC from clinics to daily life meant to pay particular attention to the garment design and to the amount of intelligence embedded into the system. In this paper we addressed both these issues by illustrating 1) a new methodology we are developing to help the design of smart garments for daily life applications and 2) an example of embedded intelligence developed for an application of MagIC in ergonomics.
authors.affiliation: Polo Tecnologico, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, ONLUS, Milano, Italy. mdirienzo@dongnocchi.it
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Rienzo
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rizzo
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Meriggi
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Castiglioni
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mazzoleni
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ferrarin
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ferratini
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D006804:Ergonomics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D013784:Textiles