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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

A Smart Textile-Based Tactile Sensing System for Multi-Channel Sign Language Recognition.

Keran Chen, Longnan Li, Qinyao Peng, Mengyuan He, Liyun Ma, Xinxin Li, Zhenyu Lu

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Keran ChenSchool of Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
Longnan LiCollege of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China.ORCID 0009-0006-9732-5486
Qinyao PengBristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK.ORCID 0009-0008-4709-141X
Mengyuan HeBristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK.
Liyun MaHamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Xinxin LiCollege of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China.
Zhenyu LuSchool of Automation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China.

Funding

New Faculty Research Initiation Program Project 233072024CFJ0401
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sign language recognition plays a crucial role in enabling communication for deaf individuals, yet current methods face limitations such as sensitivity to lighting conditions, occlusions, and lack of adaptability in diverse environments. This study presents a wearable multi-channel tactile sensing system based on smart textiles, designed to capture subtle wrist and finger motions for static sign language recognition. The system leverages triboelectric yarns sewn into gloves and sleeves to construct a skin-conformal tactile sensor array, capable of detecting biomechanical interactions through contact and deformation. Unlike vision-based approaches, the proposed sensor platform operates independently of environmental lighting or occlusions, offering reliable performance in diverse conditions. Experimental validation on American Sign Language letter gestures demonstrates that the proposed system achieves high signal clarity after customized filtering, leading to a classification accuracy of 94.66%. Experimental results show effective recognition of complex gestures, highlighting the system's potential for broader applications in human-computer interaction.

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Sign LanguageTextilesTouchFingersGesturesHumansWearable Electronic Deviceshuman–computer interactionsign language recognitionsmart textilestactile sensingwearable sensors system

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PMID40807768
PMCPMC12349141

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