Project description
The future of fashion is haptic
What if your favourite shirt could also create tactile stimulations? The EU funded WEAFING project will advance the technology behind electroactive fabrics to design lightweight and flexible textile actuators. Specifically, it will develop innovative garments with integrated textile actuators, sensors and electronics for haptic stimulation. The garments developed will have a high level of wearability as the actuator is the garment itself and the technology is silent and lightweight. The project foresees a wide range of possible applications in haptics – from ergonomics to gaming and social communication. Electromechanically active polymers form a basis for the textile muscles. The project will carry out a co-design approach involving end users.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmechatronics
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- social sciencespsychologyergonomics
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
7522 NB Enschede
Netherlands
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Participants (5)
581 83 Linkoping
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50190 Boras
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95011 Cergy-pontoise
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3534 AM Utrecht
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
82211 Herrsching
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.