Intelligent Textiles for Interiors, Fashion and Rehabilitation

Dr Tan created an interactive textile that is intuitive to use, enabling users of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities to interact, customise and express themselves with the comfort and tactile familiarity of an omnipresent material.

• The market-first and patented intelligent textile is comprised of a contactless gesture recognition system and an illuminative textile knitted from polymeric optical fibres and textile-based yarns. Typical gesture recognition materials on the market are often reliant on physical contact or the donning of the material.
• Typical illuminative textiles are woven materials that have fixed structures while our knitted textile possess stretch and can be produced via industrial flatbed knitting machines.
• The system is customisable in terms of the programmed gestures and different surface design, textures, and weights can be created to accommodate to the application purpose.

• The intelligent textile, looks and feels like a typical textile, is intuitive to use, enabling users of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities to interact, customise and express themselves with the comfort and tactile familiarity of an omnipresent material.
• The immediate adaptability of the intelligent textile enables it to effortlessly meet the fast-evolving needs of contemporary consumers lending to product longevity and sustainability.
• The knited structure enables the creation of shaped pieces to fit the product construction thus only using the yarn and POFs required, resulting in very little material wastage as compared to the conventional cut and sew process of woven textiles that lends to material wastage.
• The off-line system also enables the intelligent textile to work anywhere without the need for large computational power hence reducing the bulk of components and enhancing portability.

• Interior applications for customised textile based illumination.
• Fashion application for interactive wearables and accessories.
• Rehabilitation application for multi-sensory stimulation.

• Jacquard Knitted Fabric Capable Of Designing Various Surface Patterns (Chinese Translation) (Patent No.: CN 202221381117.5)
• Jacquard Knitted Fabric Capable Of Designing Various Surface Patterns & Knitting Methods (Chinese Translation) (Patent App. No.: CN 202210619232.X)
• Jacquard Knitted Fabric Capable Of Designing Various Surface Patterns (Short-term Patent App. No.: CN 32022055622.1)
• System used for human-computer interaction and textile used for human-computer interaction (Patent App. No.: CN 202210612916.7)