ISD Seminar - Moving E-Textile Systems Out of the Lab: Challenges of Product Development, Manufacture, and Commercialization
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For the last 30 years, e-textiles have been "the next big thing". Over and over, we've seen waves of interest and development — yet real-world uptake of commercial products has been extremely limited. This talk will explore some stories of why that is: where the intellectual and implementation gaps are, and why e-textiles are so difficult to develop, as well as some practical roadmaps for building paths toward commercialization.
Lucy E. Dunne is a professor in the Department of Design Innovation, College of Design at the University of Minnesota, where she founded and co-directs the Wearable Technology Lab. She is a co-author of "Functional Apparel Design: From Sportswear to Space Suits" (Bloomsbury, 2015). Her research is focused on wearability and garment-based wearable technology, and explores new functionality in apparel, human-device interfaces, production and manufacture, and human factors of wearable products. She has received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, a US/UK Fulbright Commission fellowship, and the NASA Silver Achievement Medal for her work with functional clothing and wearable technology.