title: Sensing textile seam-line for wearable multimodal physiological monitoring.
abstract: This paper investigates a novel multimodal sensing method by forming seam-lines of conductive textile fibers into commercially available fabrics. The proposed ultra-low cost micro-electro-mechanical sensor would provide, wearable, flexible, textile based biopotential signal recording, wetness detection and tactile sensing simultaneously. Three types of fibers are evaluated for their array-based sensing capability, including a 3D printed conductive fiber, a multiwall carbon nanotube based fiber, and a commercially available stainless steel conductive thread. The sensors were shown to have a correlation between capacitance and pressure; impedance and wetness; and recorded potential and ECG waveforms.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McKnight
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Agcayazi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kausche
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bozkurt
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D025802:Electric Capacitance; D017097:Electric Impedance; D004562:Electrocardiography; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D011312:Pressure; D013784:Textiles; D059015:Wireless Technology
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon