Smart clothing uses electronic components and sensors to monitor health, provide training data, and increase safety. Project Jacquard explores integrating computing into fabrics. Project Soli controls devices with hand gestures. Psychological challenges include motivating lasting behavior change and integrating technology into real life. Smart clothing is just beginning to develop applications in medicine, sports, the military, fashion and more.

1. Smart Clothing
Dmitry Shcherbina

2. Variety of Wearables

3. Not So Smart Clothing.
Or it’s only just the beginning.

4. Smart Clothing

5. Uses of Smart Fabrics
● Medicine. Health monitoring of vital signs of the wearer such
as heart rate, respiration rate, temperature, activity, and
posture. Monitoring personnel handling hazardous materials.
Remote analysis, medical consultation.
● Sports training data acquisition, analysis.
● Military, Survival, Safety. Increase survival chances in
extreme surrounding. Tracking the position and status of
soldiers in action. Monitoring pilot or truck driver tiredness.
● Innovative Fashion, Style.

6. Project Jacquard

7. Project Soli

8. Clothes are Getting Smarter

9. Ralph Lauren Polo Tech Shirt
"We skipped to what we
thought was new. We live in our
clothes.", said Ralph himself.

10. Hexoskin

11. Athos

12. Exoskeletons

13. Synapse Dress

14. ● Apathy. If you're not motivated to change, it doesn't matter.
● Simplicity vs. Complexity. We can’t just shove complex psychology into
an app and expect an incredible user experience.
● Personalization vs. Scale. Psychology is generally applied in a clinical
setting, with the best results from 1:1 interactions & does not scale.
● New behavior forming. The process of anticipating/preventing relapse is
integral to lasting behavior change. This important step is almost always
overlooked in technologies
● Integration with Real Life. There exists a natural barrier between doing
something on your phone and taking action in real life.
Psychological challenges
wearable faced with

15. Links:
● Project jacquard https://www.google.com/atap/project-jacquard/
● Project Soli https://www.google.com/atap/project-soli/
● Athos https://www.liveathos.com/
● Hexoskin http://www.hexoskin.com/
● Smart equipment http://www.cybervisiontech.com/everything-is-getting-smarter-
clothes/
● Exoskeleton https://www.behance.net/gallery/12324165/AFA-Powered-Exoskeleton-
Suit-for-Firefighter http://www.eksobionics.com/
● Synapse Dress http://www.materialise.com/cases/wearable-tech-just-got-smarter-anouk-
wipprechts-intel-edison-powered-3d-printed-synapse-dress

16. Dmitry Shcherbina
Dmitry.Shcherbina@dataart.com