Research and innovation

Flex sensors are used in some of the wearables that we looked at in Chapter 1, Introduction to the World of Wearables. Their use in sports clothing and medical monitoring devices are some of the most common. Flex sensors, such as the stretchable graphene thermistors researched by Khan, Y., Ostfeld, A. E., Lochner, et al. (2015), which also detail respiration knits and patches that are used for monitoring vital signs.

Human finger tracking was explored in Ponraj, G., & Ren, H. (2018). In their paper, they observed how much human hands are used every day, including in “gesture recognition, robotics, medicine and health care, design and manufacturing, art and entertainment across multiple domains.” Other interesting research is regarding sitting postures and the health issues that may come with them. The system described by Hu, Q., Tang, X., & Tang, W. (2020) uses six flex sensors to create a “novel posture recognition system on...