Smart Sensing Technologies for Human-Centered Healthcare: Research and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Smart sensing technologies, including wearable sensors, ambient sensors, and smartphone sensor modalities, have been receiving increased research and commercial attention over the last 5–10 years. Indicatively, wearables are now already a strong multi-billion dollar industry, and along with smartphone apps, have been widely embraced by the public to keep track of fitness and health aspects. Similarly, other sensing modalities, including ambient sensing, can be used in innovative ways to inform healthcare provision and have enormous potential in transforming contemporary healthcare delivery. Collectively, the data that are collected from these devices, along with emerging advances in data science and machine learning, are leading to unprecedented opportunities in rethinking human-centered healthcare.

This Special Issue will focus on sensing technologies for healthcare to provide a state-of-the-art forum to report on both algorithmic-focused and application-focused papers, following the organization of the 2022 Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare conference (https://pervasivehealth.eai-conferences.org/2022/).

We invite extensions of some of the best works presented at the conference (authors need to ensure there is at least 50% new content compared to the conference paper), along with papers submitted within the open call, taking also into account the target audience of Sensors.

This Special Issue fits excellently with the aims and scope of Sensors. It aims to provide a forum to document advances in sensor technologies and mining sensor data to improve healthcare. We aim to attract both algorithmic-focused studies and application-focused studies, as long as there is a clear link between the use of sensing technologies (interpreted broadly) and healthcare. Many of the key areas that we will be soliciting manuscripts from align excellently with the keywords that are identified in the formal page of the journal.

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors in advance if they have any questions.

Dr. Thanasis Tsanas
Dr. Andreas Triantafyllidis
Dr. Asimina Kiourti
Dr. Siddharth Arora
Guest Editors

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