This autumn, Ramyah Gowrishankar had the opportunity to present and participate in the International Symposium for Wearable Computing 2017 (ISWC17) conference from the 11th to the 15th September 2017. The conference, which was combined with the UbiComp conference had two days of workshops and three days of interesting talks and presentations. Ramyah presented a paper…
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During the secondment at the Swedish school of Textiles, we organised a series of work sessions that were each led by a member of the work package 3 and the rest of the members participated. These workshops enabled each of the researcher to bring a topic for investigation to the group based on her own…
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Interested in textile interactions and movement, my research has taken a turn into exploring energy harvesting with textiles. Our everyday interactions and manipulations of textiles such as pulling, stretching, turning inside out etc. produce specific kinds of mechanical strains that could be used for harvesting small amounts of electrical energy over time. I am investigating…
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WP3 workshop that focused on mapping the group’s interests, goals and research methods for envisioning the collaborative work.
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Energy harvesting and storage Europe 2016, is an annual event focused on providing insight into energy harvesting technologies, both high power and low power, and their applications. This year’s summit took place on 27th-28th April 2016 in Berlin. Iva Resetar and Ramyah Gowrishankar, visited the exhibition at the event to get a preview of the…
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I am currently working on writing a chapter for a book called ‘Handbook of smart textiles and textiles electronics’ edited by Stefan Schneegass (University of Stuttgart) and Oliver Amft, (University of Passau). The chapter presents an e-Textile Interaction Design strategy that is based on defining the material-specificity of e-Textiles as its ability to deform in…
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