Human Performance Engineering
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 451
Editors
Interests: biomechanics; ergonomics; injury prevention; slips, trips, and falls; postural control; gait; wearable technologies
Interests: tactical readiness; slips, trips, and falls in occupational populations; ergonomics; biomechanics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human Performance Engineering is an emerging interdisciplinary field focused on optimizing human movement, health, safety, rehabilitation, and occupational performance through the integration of engineering principles, biomechanics, physiology, neuroscience, and translational clinical sciences. Human Performance Engineering also emphasizes the interaction between humans and complex environments, wearable technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) and more. This includes promoting human movement efficiency, optimizing human–machine interfaces, reducing cognitive and physical workload, improving ergonomic design, enhancing decision-making under stress, and developing adaptive assistive systems that augment human performance while minimizing injury and fatigue.
The Special Issue seeks to provide a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration between engineers, clinicians, movement scientists, rehabilitation specialists, and data scientists to address current challenges and future opportunities in human performance optimization. This Special Issue welcomes high-quality, interdisciplinary studies advancing the theory, technology and practical application of general human performance engineering. We invite original research, reviews, short communications, methodological papers, case studies and perspectives covering but not limited to the following topics:
- Fundamental theories, computational models and quantitative assessment of human physical and cognitive performance
- Biomechanics, ergonomics, posture/gait control and load adaptation mechanisms
- Fatigue regulation, stress response and physiological recovery strategies for all age groups
- Wearable sensors, multi-modal data fusion and intelligent human performance monitoring technologies
- Sports performance optimization, scientific training and injury prevention for athletes and fitness populations
- Occupational ergonomic optimization and chronic injury prevention for industrial, transportation and sedentary workers
- Functional maintenance, fall prevention and mobility improvement for elderly individuals
- Postoperative rehabilitation, neuromuscular reconstruction and functional recovery for patients with motor dysfunction
- Tactical performance optimization and occupational resilience for military and first responder groups
- Human–machine interaction, exoskeleton and protective equipment ergonomic design
- AI and digital twin applications for personalized performance intervention
- Population-level health promotion for sustainable human functional performance
This Issue aims to summarize state-of-the-art progress in universal human performance engineering and provide innovative solutions for performance enhancement, injury prevention and functional rehabilitation across diverse populations.
Dr. Harish Chander
Dr. Chip Wade
Dr. John C. Garner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tactical human performance, resilience and readiness
- first-responders
- biomechanics and ergonomics
- wearable technologies and sensors
- injury prevention and rehabilitation
- cognitive and physical performance
- training and conditioning strategies
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