Your heart on your sleeve: Advances in textile-based electronics are weaving computers right into the clothes we wear

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-70

  Yoo, Hoi Jun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

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Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTING POWER; DAILY LIVING; FORM FACTORS; GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE (GUI); HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI); INFORMATION DEVICES; MINIATURE ELECTRONICS; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; POWER MANAGEMENTS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; TABLET COMPUTER; TABLET PCS; WEARABLE ELECTRONICS; WEARABLE HEALTH CARE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE; HOSIERY MANUFACTURE; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MOBILE COMPUTING; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

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EID: 84873650156     PISSN: 19430582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSSC.2012.2232781     Document Type: Article

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