Wearable Sensors for Health and Physiological Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 63703
Special Issue Editors
Interests: preventive medicine; preventive cardiology; exercise training; physical activity; cardiac rehabilitation; sports cardiology; sports medicine; cardiovascular risk factors; healthy mobility; athlete’s health
2. Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Interests: human-centred geoinformatics; geospatial machine learning; urban geoinformatics; fusion of human and technical sensors; people as sensors and collective sensing (VGI); real-time and smart cities; crowdsourcing; digital health
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Dear colleagues,
With great pleasure, we invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Wearable Sensors for Health and Physiological Monitoring” for Sensors.
Wearable biosensors for humans are an emerging field in a large number of scientific disciplines like biomedical research, mobility research, biomechanics, geoinformatics, sports science, urban planning or psychology. Besides, in everyday living these wearable biosensors are also of increased relevance as the “quantified self” movement is rapidly gaining momentum. Many people use wearable devices like fitness-watches, fitness trackers, step-counters, or medical-purpose wearables. In addition, smartphone based applications like eDiary apps offer a broad variety of possibilities and are essentially smartphone-based biosensors. Smart tissues offer enormous possibilities to measure sweat loss, fluid balance, stress level and even electrocardiographic changes in athletes, patients, and citizens alike. In recreational and professional sports especially, injury prevention, training periodization, assessment of regeneration, training stimulus or fatigue and estimation of return-to-play after medical incidents are possible applications of biosensors.
Equipping sports gear such as helmets, ski boots, shoes, or bikes with biosensors may give useful insights for training purposes and injury prevention. The data derived from biosensors have even been used to change sporting rules in the past, and these data are of emerging importance in many official sporting bodies. Medical devices such as cardiac pacemakers, prostheses, or brain stimulators offer new perspectives to equip these devices with sensors or use the integrated sensors for advanced purposes such as disease monitoring, injury prevention, fitness tracking, emergency functions or interaction between patients and health care professionals. Emerging applications like biosensors in cars to detect sleepiness, medical emergencies, or stress are meanwhile under thorough scientific investigation with promising results in practical application.
Coupled with established location technology like GPS trackers, measurements from wearable sensors do not only allow drawing far-reaching conclusions about individuals and their physical conditions, but also enable the performance of collective studies. For instance, analysing physiological data of larger cohorts of test persons and citizens generates new insights into urban systems, mobility infrastructures, workplace wellbeing, or urban stress and relaxation. The geospatial and temporal correlation with real-world environmental covariates (demographic statistical data, characteristics of the urban environment like traffic, greenness, tourist density, etc.) helps in revealing previously unseen patterns, supporting urban management and planning or health system management.
In this Special Issue, we want to build a bridge between different scientific disciplines and offer highly innovative researchers in various fields a platform to exchange research in this exciting and emerging field: wearable sensors for health and physiological monitoring.
We, the guest editors of this Special Issue, represent research backgrounds in geographic information science, mobility research, and medicine with a focus on cardiovascular medicine and sports science. We herewith stand for the highly interdisciplinary approach that is essential in research in this emerging scientific field and highly anticipate submissions from a broad range of specialities to this Special Issue.
Kind regards,
Dr. David Niederseer
Dr. Bernd Resch
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- GPS-tracking
- wearable sensors
- smart tissue
- cardiac devices
- pacemaker
- implantable biosensor
- objective stress measurement
- mobility research
- sports science
- sports gear
- athletic training
- smart car
- geospatial analysis
- eDiary apps
- biomechanics
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