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AmI 2017: Ambient Intelligence pp 214–224Cite as

E-Textile Couch: Towards Smart Garments Integrated Furniture

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Application areas like health-care and smart environments have greatly benefited from embedding sensors into every-day-objects, enabling for example sleep apnea detection. We propose to further integrate parts of sensors into the very own materials of the objects. Thus, in this work we explore integrating smart garments into furniture using a couch as our use-case. Equipped with textile capacitive sensing electrodes, we show that our prototype outperforms existing systems achieving an F-measure of 94.1%. Furthermore, we discuss implications and limitation of the integration process.

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  1. Fraunhofer IGD, Fraunhoferstr. 5, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Silvia Rus, Andreas Braun & Arjan Kuijper

  2. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Arjan Kuijper

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Rus, S., Braun, A., Kuijper, A. (2017). E-Textile Couch: Towards Smart Garments Integrated Furniture. In: Braun, A., Wichert, R., Maña, A. (eds) Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10217. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56997-0_17

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