Smart Sensing Technologies for Personalised Coaching

Dear Colleagues,

Lifestyle choices can have a tremendous impact on people’s health and wellness. Avoiding unhealthy habits is, nowadays, a priority, and to achieve this goal, ground-breaking mechanisms are required to automatically and autonomously identify and eventually change people’s behaviours. An increasing number of smart ubiquitous sensing technologies are being developed all over the world to coach people on healthier, as well as more responsible behaviours, providing them timely and ubiquitously with personalised information and support. This Special Issue aims at bringing together the latest experiences, findings and developments on the smart sensing, modelling and understanding of human behaviour for the provision of personalised coaching and support services.

We invite novel, innovative and exciting contributions including sensors used for behavior monitoring and coaching, validity and reliability of sensing modality, and modeling of behavior and coaching strategies. This Special Issue is further interested in:

• wearable, mobile and ubiquitous health sensing systems,
• mobile social networks,
• behavioural grouping and participatory sensing,
• context-awareness and semantic modelling,
• physical and virtual coaching systems,
• benchmarking, datasets and simulation tools that have been applied to study behavior and/or support coaching.

Dr. Oresti Banos
Prof. Dr. Hermie Hermens
Prof. Dr. Christopher Nugen
Prof. Dr. Hector Pomares
Guest Editors

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