Movement Analysis for Health and Biometrics

Dear Colleagues,

Movement is being investigated in biomechanics, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence. The progress that has been made in modeling and analyzing movement is contributing to both the understanding of human movement and the development of new applications. In particular, the availability of low cost and pervasive devices for recording movements (wearable devices, smartphones, tablets, cameras, etc.), together with machine learning methods for the quantitative and automatic analysis of movement, has put forward the development of systems for user authentication, medical diagnosis, and rehabilitation monitoring. A leading example is the use of artificial intelligence methods for the analysis of complex movements such as handwriting and gait, which is improving our knowledge of the mechanisms underlying human movement and, at the same time, enriching the fields of e-health and e-security with new applications. Another successful example is the design of control systems for prosthetic devices that exploit knowledge about movement execution and artificial intelligence methods.

This Special Issue aims to highlight how movement analysis and new technologies are innovating the fields of health and biometrics and contributing to human movement understanding.

We invite researchers to contribute with original works and qualified reviews related to this Special Issue.

Dr. Antonio Parziale
Dr. Rosa Senatore
Dr. Nicole Dalia Cilia
Guest Editors

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