Bachelor Assignment

To reduce the number of running-related injuries, Movella, the motion capture technology company, and Saxion University of Applied Sciences are in collaboration to create a running garment made of e-textile, which will focus on injury prevention of the lower extremity of the body by giving haptic feedback to the runner using coin vibration motors.

During this thesis, new attachment methods were developed, which enable the attachment of vibration motors to the conductive textile tracks that are on the running garment. The results include three different functional prototypes that encase vibration motors, functionality testing results, usability testing results and design recommendations for the next versions of the attachments.