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Low-cost personalised instrumented clothing with integrated FES electrodes

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Kai Yang

Professor

Research interests

  • Electronic textile materials and manufacturing
  • Wearable medical devices (e.g. stroke rehabilitation, pain management)
  • Digital healthcare
Connect with Kai

Email: ky2e09@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Chris Freeman PhD, BEng, BSc, CEng, FIET

Professor
Connect with Chris

Email: cf@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Dr John Tudor

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Smart fabrics/e-textiles
  • MEMS and microfabrication
  • Sensors and Transducers
Connect with John

Email: mjt@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Stephen Beeby PhD, FIEEE, FInstP, FIET, CEng, CPhys

Professor of Electronic Systems & Device

Research interests

  • Electronic Textiles
  • Flexible Electronics
  • Smart Materials
Connect with Stephen

Email: spb@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Dr Ann-Marie Hughes

Associate Professor
Connect with Ann-Marie

Email: A.Hughes@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles (C-FLEET)

The Centre for Flexible Electronics and E-Textiles (C-FLEET) is a centre of expertise for flexible smart materials, printed electronics and electronic textile technologies. We work with industry, policy makers, and the general public to address both national and global challenges.

Smart Electronic Materials and Systems

Our interests range from nano-scale biological sensors to complete sensor systems.

Research outputs

Multichannel biphasic muscle stimulation system for post stroke rehabilitation
Tyler Ward, Neil Grabham, Christopher Freeman, Yang Wei, Ann-Marie Hughes, Conor Power, Michael Tudor & Kai Yang, 2020, Electronics, 9(7), 1-13
DOI: 10.3390/electronics9071156
Type: article
Electronic textiles based wearable electrotherapy for pain relief
Meijing Liu, Tyler Ward, Dan Young, Helga Matos, Yang Wei, Joanna Adams & Kai Yang, 2019, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 303
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2019.111701
Type: article
Wearable electrical stimulation to improve lymphatic function
Wei Yang, Kai Yang, Martin Browne, Luciana Bostan & Peter Worsley, 2019, IEEE Sensor Letters, 3(2)
DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2019.2893478
Type: article
Factors affecting rehabilitation and use of upper limb after stroke
Katie Meadmore, Emma Hallewell, Christopher Freeman & Ann-Marie Hughes, 2018, Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation
DOI: 10.1080/10749357.2018.1544845
Type: article
Development of user-friendly wearable electronic textiles for healthcare applications
Kai Yang, Katie Meadmore, Chris Freeman, Neil Grabham, Ann-Marie Hughes, Yang Wei, Russel Torah, Monika Glanc-Gostkiewicz, Steve Beeby & John Tudor, 2018, Sensors, 18(8)
DOI: 10.3390/s18082410
Type: article