A Vision for the Future of Wearables: Smart Textiles, New Sensing Techniques, and Key Application Areas

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it." Mark Weiser's seminal work in Ubiquitous Computing captures a key goal of the smart textile space: to become a part of our everyday clothing (among other objects), thus transforming them into wearables. In this talk, I describe how we are pushing towards our vision for a Future of Wearables, how we are enabling it through the creation of smart fabrics and new sensing techniques that use machine learning, as well as application areas of interest.