Wearable Sensors for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics

Dear Colleagues,

The development of wearable sensors capable of collecting a wide variety of relevant physiological and environmental parameters allows for the acquisition of worker-related signals in a non-intrusive, automatic, and continuous way. Data can be obtained through both custom-made devices (namely, ad hoc ones developed by scientific researchers) and commercial wearable devices. The availability of instruments (such as wearable motion trackers, inertial measurement units, pressure sensors, eye and facial expression tracking devices, smart sensors for temperature, breathing, electrocardiography, electroencephalography, electromyography, and electrodermal activity) offers many opportunities for novel solutions in health monitoring and diagnosis.

Consequently, this Special Issue aims to delineate an emerging branch of science that considers wearable sensors a tool for biomechanical risk assessment and injury prevention, even with the help of artificial intelligence, during work-, home-, sport-, and leisure-related activities. We welcome submissions on the design of novel sensors or commercial wearable technologies and the development of any novel methodology aiming to integrate quantitative physiological information, with and without the use of artificial intelligence, to achieve the main goals of health monitoring and diagnosis. Both research papers and review articles will be considered.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following fields:

• Ergonomics and occupational medicine;
• Wearable, motion, force/pressure, and EMG sensors for ergonomics;
• Sensors for well-being;
• Activity-monitoring devices and systems;
• Machine learning and deep learning for wearable data analysis;
• Biomechanical risk assessment;
• Health monitoring in working environments;
• Work-related musculoskeletal disorders;
• Novel design approaches for ergonomic assessment;
• M-health and/or e-health solutions for ergonomics.

Dr. Leandro Donisi
Dr. Carlo Ricciardi
Dr. Alfonso Maria Ponsiglione
Dr. Giuseppe Cesarelli
Guest Editors

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