ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering

The mission of this project is the development of e-textile buttons. These are small computational, sensor, or actuator devices which attach to a fabric e-textile. This research involves building physical devices, finding ways to attach them to fabric, finding ways to connect to wires in the fabric, and development of software and protocols for communication and control of the devices.

 

Project Goals

• Explore methods for attaching small computational, sensor, and/or actuator devices to e-textile fabrics.
• Develop a (simple) protocol for communication between devices.
• Build prototype devices.

Publications

 

 

• D. Lehn, C. Neely, K. Schoonover, T. Martin, and M. Jones, "e-TAGS: e-Textile Attached Gadgets", Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference, January 2004.

Student Projects

 

 

• David I. Lehn, Craig W. Neely, Kevin Schoonover, "Design of a Communications Interface for E-Textile Buttons," Virginia Tech ECE 5984, Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing, Dr. Thomas Martin, Spring 2003.