Lucy E. Dunne’s research while affiliated with St. Catherine University and other places

... Developing electronic textile (E-textile) involves repeated disassembly of integrated electronic devices to find the optimal device position in the field of activity recognition and healthcare [6,9,19]. For example, monitoring lower-limb rehabilitation requires the precise placement of sensors at different patients' injured joints and muscles [33]. E-textile prototyping tools provide means to quickly test and evaluate the proof-of-concept e-textiles [8,24,29]. ...

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Plug-n-play e-knit: prototyping large-area e-textiles using machine-knitted magnetically-repositionable sensor networks

... The smart material actuation system (e.g., conductive polymers), often an integral actuator and mechanism, is relatively specialized in applications [140][141][142]. Though they are lightweight and have a quick response, they generally provide a lower output power and a more limited range of motion than other types of actuation systems. ...

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Design of Soft Robots: A Review of Methods and Future Opportunities for Research

... Specifically, interconnection and hardware-textile integration remain a major challenge for e-textile production. Research has examined various interconnection designs to improve e-textile durability [31,32,59,63] and stretchability [60], as well as surface-mount assembly on textiles [6,44,45]. ...

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Scaling E-Textile Production: Understanding the Challenges of Soft Wearable Production for Individual Creators

... However, DEAs usually require high voltage for their actuation [120]. These materials are generally activated by using high DC and AC voltages (higher than 1 kV), which could pose serious damages to the body when discharging, such as deep skin, tissue burns, and cardiovascular injuries such as ventricular [70], [71] • Hysteresis [48], [73]- [77] • Nonlinearity [78]- [85] • Sensitivity to mechanical deformation and curvature [42], [63], [86]- [89] • Sensor multiplexing challenges [63], [90] • Manufacturing challenges [48], [93] • Size, weight, and stiffness [91], [94] On-body Soft Actuation Challenges • Dynamics modelling and control challenges [27], [95]- [101] • Material properties Pneumaticbased actuator • Bulky and requires heavy rigid equipment [102] • Slow actuation frequency [63], [64] • Infeasible actuator multiplexing • Leak risk (causing discomfort and safety risk) SMA • High activation temperature • Slow actuation (phase transformation) [122] • Electrical insulation [103], [104] • Actuation creep over time [106] • Sensitive to ambient conditions [27] • Hysteresis phase transformation (force generation curve) • Lack of effective wearable cooling system SMP • Relatively low force amounts • Rigidity in lower temperature (causing discomfort and safety risks) [31] • One-way actuation [31] EAP • High voltage electrical discharge [35], [68] • Relatively short lifetime and less durable [35], [68] • Relatively complicated and costly manufacturing [35], [68] Body Condition Challenges • Inter-and intra-personal anthropometric variabilities [107]- [111] • Migration/slippage of soft components on soft tissue [63], [112] • Biocompatibility, comfort, and safety concerns [113], [115]- [117], [120] • Lack of standard method for in-situ and in-vivo testings [63], [123] fibrillation [121]. ...

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A Review in On-Body Compression Using Soft Actuators and Sensors: Applications, Mechanisms, and Challenges

... Such design approach allows for easy actuator repair and/or replacement without the need to take off the entire exosuit; instead, only the pocket needs to be removed and fixed. We note that during preliminary experimentation, we also explored the use of snap buttons similar to Golgouneh et al. (2021) as an alternative way of attachment which, compared to our selected method, demonstrated two key limitations. First, the pocket was attached to the substrate based on a few distinctive points, which led to undesired actuator relative motion and/or deformation during inflation/deflation. ...

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Evaluation of fabric-based pneumatic actuator enclosure and anchoring configurations in a pediatric soft robotic exosuit

... For example, Russel and Barrett's valence-arousal model (Russell and Barrett, 1999) describes each emotional state in terms of its valence (positive or negative) and arousal (arousing or calm), whereas Ekman's work (1992b;1992a) identifies basic emotions that are commonly experienced and universally understood across cultures. While previous affective designs have been assessed based on ei-ther discrete (Lan et al., 2022;Chen et al., 2021a;Foo et al., 2021), or dimensional (Aoki et al., 2022;An et al., 2022) views of emotion, in this research, we evaluated our designed affective animations by assessing both affect category recognizability (discrete) and valencearousal properties (dimensional) to have a comprehensive understanding of the affective affordance of the animated chat balloons. ...

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AniBalloons: Animated Chat Balloons as Affective Augmentation for Social Messaging and Chatbot Interaction

... [3] This paper proposes a deep learning-based approach for fashion recommendation and design, utilizing convolutional neural networks and generative adversarial networks to generate personalized fashion designs. "An Ensemble-Based Hybrid Fashion Recommendation System" by Zhang et al. (2021) [4] This study proposes an ensemble-based hybrid fashion recommendation system, combining content-based and collaborative filtering approaches to improve the accuracy of recommendations. [5] This paper presents a personalized fashion recommendation system based on social media data, utilizing deep learning techniques to analyze user preferences and generate personalized recommendations. ...

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Revolutionizing Fashion: Fashion Era's Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Outfit Recommendations

... But beyond that, fashion recommendation may also need to consider fashionability or compatibility in different situations. The purpose of recommendation in fashion is not only to help consumer over-choice [201], but also to provide styling or dressing advice for the users [6,21,40,41]. For example, for the complementary recommendation task, the main research problem is to model the compatibility between fashion items. ...

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Computational Technologies for Fashion Recommendation: A Survey

... Indeed, e-textile fabrication combines apparel and hardware manufacturing processes, integrating soft goods (slim soft circuitry) and hard goods (printed circuit boards and electronics). While both industries have wellestablished standards and protocols, scaling them remains a challenge [18,29,43]. ...

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Scaling E-Textile Production: Understanding the Challenges of Soft Wearable Production for Individual Creators

... However, e-textile components risk introducing more error into the electronic system, particularly when worn due to the confounding variables that are introduced when worn close to the human body. Many e-textile sensing components have been wellcharacterized for wearable applications [1]- [4], but the effects of introducing textile-type interconnects in addition to soft sensor compontents are not as well understood. Here, we investigate the effects of three textile-like interconnection materials on two e-textile force sensors, under an array of simulated body-worn conditions, in order to assess the effects of each wearability variable individually. ...

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Effects of E-Textile Circuit Components on Signal Quality for Wearable Sensing Applications