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Electronic textiles or e-textiles are fabrics that enable electronic components such as batteries, lights, sensors, and microcontrollers to be embedded in them. Many smart clothing, wearable technology, and wearable computing projects involve the use of e-textiles. Electronic textiles are distinct from wearable computing because the emphasis is placed on the seamless integration of textiles with electronic elements like microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators. Furthermore, e-textiles need not be wearable. For instance, e-textiles are also found in interior design. (source)

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• Beeby, Steve and Yang, Kai (2019) E-Textiles 2019: International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles. In: Proceedings, Volume 32

• Hardy, D.A., Anastasopoulos, I., Nashed, M.-N., Oliveira, C., Hughes-Riley, T., Komolafe, A., Tudor, J., Torah, R., Beeby, S. and Dias, T. (2018). An automated process for inclusion of package dies and circuitry within a textile yarn. In: Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS (DTIP 2018), Rome, Italy, 22-25 May 2018.

• Li, Menglong, Tudor, Michael, Liu, Jingqi, Komolafe, Abiodun, Torah, Russel and Beeby, Stephen (2018) The_thickness_and_material_optimization_of_flexible_electronic_packaging_for_function_electronic_textile. In 2018 Symposium on Design, Test, Integration & Packaging of MEMS and MOEMS (DTIP). IEEE. 6 pp

• Mclaren, A., Hardy, D.A. and Hughes-Riley, T (2017). Electronic textiles and product lifetimes: exploring design strategies for product longevity. In: C. Bakker and R. Mugge, eds., PLATE: Product Lifetimes And The Environment: Conference Proceedings of PLATE 2017, Delft, the Netherlands, 8-10 November 2017. Research in design series, 9. Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 473-476. ISBN 9781614998198

• Yang, Kai, Freeman, C. T., Torah, R, Beeby, S. P. and Tudor, M. J. (2015)  Fabrication and Evaluation of Screen Printed Fabric Electrode Arrays.At 5th Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS) (UK and Ireland Chapter) 5th Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS) (UK and Ireland Chapter), United Kingdom.