Abstract
Smart clothes development history started in the military field and this still remains a main application field. A soldier is like a high-performance athlete, where monitoring of physical and physiological capabilities of primary importance. Wearable systems and smart clothes can answer this need appropriately. Smart cloth represents a “second skin” that has a close, “intimate” relation with the human body. The relation is physiological, psychological, biomechanical and ergonomical. Effectiveness of functional wear is based on the integration of all these considerations into the design of a smart clothing system. The design of smart cloth is crucial to obtain the best results. Identifying all the steps involved in the co-design workflow can prevent a decrease in wearer’s performance ensuring a more successful design. This paper presents all the steps involved in the workflow for the design of a proposed solution of a smart garment for monitoring soldier’s performance.
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Scataglini, S., Andreoni, G., Gallant, J. (2019). Smart Clothing Design Issues in Military Applications. In: Ahram, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Wearable Technologies and Game Design. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 795. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94619-1_15
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