Wearable Sensors for Gait, Human Motion and Health Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2026 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wearable sensors; human movement reconstruction; inertial sensors; rehabilitation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid advancement of wearable sensing technologies is reshaping the monitoring and assessment of gait, human motion, and health-related parameters. This Special Issue aims to highlight recent progress in wearable sensors, smart sensing systems, and data-driven methodologies for continuous, remote, and personalized health monitoring. In the context of telemedicine and precision medicine, wearable devices enable unobtrusive, real-time acquisition of motion and physiological data, supporting early disease detection, rehabilitation monitoring, and individualized clinical decision-making.
This Special Issue welcomes original research and review articles addressing novel wearable sensor designs, multimodal sensing and data fusion strategies, and artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms for motion analysis and predictive health assessment. Particular emphasis is placed on robust and scalable solutions for real-world deployment, including energy-efficient architectures, long-term monitoring, and the translation of laboratory-based methods into daily-life and clinical environments.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, remote gait and posture analysis, activity recognition, early diagnosis and monitoring of movement disorders, rehabilitation and assistive technologies, digital biomarkers, and AI-enabled health analytics. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among sensor engineering, biomechanics, data science, and clinical research, this Special Issue seeks to advance next-generation wearable sensing technologies for accurate, reliable, and intelligent human motion and health monitoring.
Dr. Nicola Carbonaro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wearable sensors
- gait analysis
- human motion analysis
- health monitoring
- precision medicine
- artificial intelligence
- multimodal sensing
- sensor fusion
- digital biomarkers
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