Wearable and Portable Devices for Endurance Sports
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2025 | Viewed by 243
Special Issue Editor
Interests: physiology; training; biomechanics
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Dear Colleagues,
Sport biomechanics and training have been traditionally tested in laboratory environments, requiring both specific conditions and expensive equipment. The novel use of wearable devices substitutes the lack of ecology for such measures and provides an affordable and easy-to-use option for performing biomechanics. Lately, wearable sensors have enabled the quantification of performance and workload by providing mechanical and physiological parameters, and their popularity has grown exponentially. In this context, more and more wearable sensors are commercially available and, when applied to biomechanics, these devices are able to provide both kinetic and kinematic variables, consequently improving the feasibility and testing time of such assessments and, therefore, becoming a real alternative for sport practitioners and researchers. Additionally, wearable devices facilitate real-time monitoring and biofeedback.
This Special Issue encourages authors to submit contributions on the use and application of wearable sensors for endurance sports.
The main topics for this issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Validity analysis of novel wearable devices for endurance sports.
- Reliability analysis of wearable devices.
- New applications and uses of metrics provided by wearable devices in training, competition, and injury management settings.
- Novel technologies applied to sport biomechanics and training science.
- The state of the art of wearable devices in relation to the topic of this Special Issue.
- Algorithms, integrations with other platforms or software, signal processing, and big data obtained by wearable devices
Dr. Diego Jaén-Carrillo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wearable devices
- portable devices
- sensors
- biomechanics
- endurance sports
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