Call for papers: Embedded sensors, smart and innovative services for personalised products

Chair: Prof. Luca Canetta
Co-chair: Rosanna Fornasiero

Short description: Today consumer goods like clothing, footwear, sportwear have the untapped potential to escape from being traditional products by mean of innovative services like sensing the status of customer well-being, functional materiasl etc to offer safe and healthy conditions for applications like work and sport . This paper session aims to discuss innovative approaches to make Smart product concepts into reality. For example, how to turn rigid electronic parts into stretchy, smart clothing material. How to interact with services and technology through clothing. Can we go beyond swiping a hand across a coat sleeves to adjust the volume of a connected music player? What are the services to be created upon the data collected through integrated sensor technology, for the public in general but specifically for elderly, obese, diabetics and disabled? To what extent does new generation of green, safe, healthy and smart work wear and sport wear products need to be customised to individual needs?

The session specifically welcomed contributions on:
• Wearable sensors and technologies
• People-driven social innovation
• Innovative methods and tools for product/service design/engineering
• Sustainable and eco-friendly smart products and services
• Human-centered design and manufacturing technologies
• Business models and new supply chains for consumer goods products
• Technology and Business Transformation
• Sustainable mass customisation strategies

The workshop is supported and leaded by members of the IMS MTP Initiative YourGoods. The IMS-MTP initiative YourGoods has been created to foster the collaboration among various FP7 projects (CoReNet, Fashion-able, MyWear and Prosumer.net) and partners from Europe, Mexico, USA, Switzerland and Korea. The aim of the MTP YourGoods is to extend the scope of each single project sharing common research themes around Consumer Goods industry applications.

Submissions for this workshop, please send before 10 February an extended abstract to Prof. Luca Canetta or myself.