The story of wool fiber is as old as human civilization. People prefer to use this natural fiber
in many areas such as clothing, furnishings, and carpets from the past to the present …

Smart textiles have progressed well beyond the laboratory stage. A growing community of
smart textile designers utilises engineered materials and advanced manufacturing …

The Soma Bits are a prototy** toolkit that facilitates Soma Design. Acting as an accessible
'sociodigital material'Soma Bits allow designers to pair digital technologies, with their whole …

The emotional and physical health benefits that come by being touched in safe ways are
well established. Tactile sensory stimulation has been reported to help calm the arousal in …

Smart textiles are becoming more integrated with service ecosystems that go beyond the
current horizontal textile value chain. This will extend the material and tangible properties of …

Anxiety among university students has increased in recent years due to stressful factors of
studies coupled with tightened individual performance requirements stemming both inside …

Wool, a marvelous fiber obtained from sheep skin, has been used for textile making for many
centuries. Wool is a protein fiber comprised primarily of keratin. Natural wool fiber has been …

The emotional and physical health benefits that come by being touched in safe ways are
well established. Therapeutic touch has been used for conditions such as Autism Spectrum …

Smart clothes have the potential to improve rehabilitation processes by allowing clinicians to
gather measures on patients' functional capacity, activity level, exercise compliance, the …

Next to digital products, also physical products can be personalized based on user data
collected through digital services and produced by digital manufacturing. This approach is …