**Refreshments at 4:00pm, Program at 4:15**
The Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard: Enhancing the Quality of Life Through Technology
Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Textile and Fiber Engineering
Humans are used to wearing clothes from the day they are born and, in general, no special ‘training’ is required to wear them, i.e., to use the interface. In fact, it is probably the most universal of human-computer interfaces and is one that humans need, use, are very familiar with, and which, can be easily customized. Clothing is typically associated with the two dimensions of functionality and aesthetics. If ‘intelligence’ can be embedded or integrated into textiles as a third dimension, it would lead to the realization of clothing as a personalized and flexible wearable information infrastructure. Research conducted at Georgia Tech has led to the realization of the world's first Wearable Motherboard™ or an “intelligent” garment for the 21st Century (www.smartshirt.gatech.edu). The Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard (GTWM) provides an extremely versatile framework for the incorporation of sensing, monitoring and information processing devices. We will discuss the design and development of the Smart Shirt and its applications in the continuum of life from infants to senior citizens. We will then present the concept of “Interactive” or i-Textiles and discuss the paradigm of “fabric is the computer.”
Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman is a Professor of Textile Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He and his research students have made significant contributions in the following areas: (i) Enterprise Architecture and Modeling Methodologies for Information Systems; (ii) Engineering Design of Intelligent Textile Structures and Processes; (iii) Design and Development of Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) for textiles and apparel; and (iv) Multimedia Educational Systems. Most recently, his group's research has led to the realization of the world's first Wearable Motherboard™– also known as the “Smart Shirt” (http://www.smartshirt.gatech.edu). This invention was featured in a Special Issue of LIFE Magazine entitled Medical Miracles for the New Millennium (Fall 1998) as “One of the 21 Breakthroughs that Could Change Your Life in the 21st Century.” It was also recognized as one of the Best Inventions of 2001 by TIME Magazine in November 2001.
He received his Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University, in 1984, and the M.Tech and B.Tech degrees from the University of Madras, India, in 1978 and 1976, respectively. He was involved in the design and development of TK!Solver, the first equation-solving program from Software Arts, Inc., Cambridge, MA. Dr. Jayaraman worked as a Product Manager at Software Arts, Inc., and at Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, MA, before joining Georgia Tech in fall 1985.
Professor Jayaraman is a recipient of the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award from NSF for his research in the area of computer-aided manufacturing and enterprise architecture. In September 1994, he was elected a Fellow of the Textile Institute, (UK). In April 1997, he received the Georgia Outstanding Manufacturing Researcher of the Year Award from Georgians for Manufacturing. His publications include a textbook on computer-aided problem solving published by McGraw-Hill in 1991. Dr. Jayaraman is Technical Editor, Information Technology, for Textile World, the leading textile trade publication. In May 2000, he was named an Editor of the Journal of the Textile Institute, one of two leading refereed journals in the field of textile science and engineering. In October 2000, Professor Jayaraman received the Georgia Technology Research Leader Award from the State of Georgia. This award “honors an individual whose contribution to basic research extends the boundaries of a technology-related field. The contribution must be recognizable as a definite advance of knowledge or a significant technological development."
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