Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), enabling communication infrastructure to simultaneously transmit data and sense the surrounding physical environment, is emerging as a cornerstone technology for sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks. Whil...
The adoption of mobile and ubiquitous solutions that involve participatory or opportunistic sensing increases every day. This situation has highlighted the relevance of optimizing the energy consumption of these solutions, because their operation dep...
Urban Digital Twins excel at modeling physical infrastructure but remain structurally limited in capturing the qualitative, experiential dimensions of urban life—particularly sense of place, which empirical research links to civic stewardship a...
An ultimate goal for Ubiquitous Computing is to enable people to interact with the surrounding electrical devices using their habitual body gestures as they communicate with each other. The feasibility of such an idea is demonstrated through a wearab...
The increasing expansion of ubiquitous sensing systems has created large streams of time-series data that are difficult for non-technical users to interpret. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising interface for transforming sensor data into n...
Gait is a sensitive marker of mobility decline and fall risk, motivating unobtrusive sensing methods that can extract spatiotemporal parameters outside specialized gait laboratories. This paper presents a physics-based comparison of two millimeter-wa...
Material-level sensitivity or conductivity alone does not determine whether a wearable sensor produces trustworthy data. The signal must survive body coupling, packaging, wireless transfer, power constraints, and algorithmic interpretation. This cros...
In this article, an employee perspective has been applied in aiming to explore how organizations face challenges and take responsibility for industrial digitalization, thus extending the research on the human-centric perspective in relation to Indust...
Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) have become increasingly crucial, particularly with the standardization of fifth-generation (5G) technology. In parallel, the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has amplified the need for human-centric solut...
The concept of “human-centric, sustainable and resilient smart cities” in Industry 5.0 (I5.0) refers to urban socio-technical ecosystems in which digital infrastructures and services are explicitly oriented toward human well-being, ecolog...
The transition from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 represents a shift toward human-centric work systems that prioritize employee well-being and meaningful human–technology collaboration. Research examining employee well-being, job satisfaction, a...
Human–Machine Interaction (HMI) systems are integral to various domains and rely on human operators for effective performance. The sense of agency (SoA) is crucial in these systems, as it influences the operator’s concentration and overal...
Opportunistic networks acquire external communication, computation, sensing, storage, and service resources as mission requirements evolve. Prior research has developed human-mobility models, context-aware routing, trust mechanisms, and adaptive reso...
Exposure to degraded indoor air quality (IAQ) conditions represents a major concern for health and well-being. PM2.5 is among the most prevalent indoor air pollutants and constitutes a key indicator in IAQ assessment. Conventional IAQ frameworks ofte...
The concept of joint attention holds significant importance in human interaction and is pivotal in establishing rapport, understanding, and effective communication. Within social robotics, enhancing user perception of the robot and promoting a sense...
The safety of public spaces on university campuses directly affects the mental and physical well-being of both faculty and students, significantly contributing to the stability and growth of the institution. Therefore, evaluating and optimizing the s...
Programming education has become increasingly vital within global K–12 curricula, and large language models (LLMs) offer promising solutions to systemic challenges such as limited teacher expertise and insufficient personalized support. Adoptin...
Current planning of urban landscapes is dominated by a human-centric view. This leads to short-term orientation, predictable planning outcomes, and decisions being taken by a small group of humans. Alternatively, a symbiotic human–nature relati...
Ship damage control (DC) is pivotal to platform survivability in the face of battle damage and severe accidents. The DC context features multi-hazard coupling among flooding, fire, and smoke, as well as fast system dynamics and intensive human–...
Vision-based 3D sensing provides an effective approach for constructing human-centric digital twins in applications such as ergonomic assessment and human–robot collaboration. However, reconstructing reliable dynamic human digital twins from vi...
In the context of rapidly evolving industrial ecosystems, the human–machine interaction (HMI) has shifted from basic interface control toward complex, adaptive, and human-centered systems. This review explores the multidisciplinary foundations...
For over a century, wood manufacturing has been organized around understanding the material and process and optimizing the product. It established a globally successful industry and enabled efficient production of traditional and engineered wood prod...
The last few years have seen a massive transformation of the global industrial landscape, thanks to the emergence of Industry 4.0 and the disruptive technologies it enables, such as Augmented Reality (AR). This paper presents the result of a project...
On-skin non-invasive Wearable Health-Monitoring Devices (WHMDs) have rapidly evolved from laboratory prototypes into commercially viable systems capable of continuously tracking physiological and biochemical signals. By integrating epidermal temperat...
Perception-oriented evaluation of automotive headlamps still relies mainly on human-vision photometric criteria, although forward-facing cameras are increasingly safety-critical sensing elements for night driving. This paper benchmarks 16 measured pr...
Intuitive user interfaces are indispensable to interact with the human centric smart environments. In this paper, we propose a unified framework that recognizes both static and dynamic gestures, using simple RGB vision (without depth sensing). This f...
Identifying spatial communities in vehicle movements is vital for sensing human mobility patterns and urban structures. Spatial community detection has been proven to be an NP-Hard problem. Heuristic algorithms were widely used for detecting spatial...
Smart textiles are emerging as transformative modern textiles in which sensing, actuation, and communication are directly embedded into textiles, extending their role far beyond passive wearables. This review presents a comprehensive analysis of the...
The rapid rise of bio-hybrid robots and hybrid human–AI systems has triggered an explosion of terminology that inhibits clarity and progress. To investigate how terms are defined, we conduct a narrative scoping review and concept analysis. We e...
Human Activity Recognition(HAR) plays an important role in the field of ubiquitous computing, which can benefit various human-centric applications such as smart homes, health monitoring, and aging systems. Human Activity Recognition mainly leverages...
Industry 5.0 introduces a shift toward human-centric, sustainable, and resilient industrial ecosystems, emphasizing intelligent automation, collaboration, and adaptive operations. Predictive Maintenance (PdM) plays a critical role in this transition,...
As industrial automation evolves towards human-centric, adaptable solutions, collaborative robots must overcome challenges in unstructured, dynamic environments. This paper extends our previous work on developing a digital shadow for industrial robot...
Accelerated urbanization has led to regional disruptions and exacerbated imbalances in spatial quality, social cohesion, and inequalities. Urban regeneration, as a mitigating strategy for these disruptions, faces significant social challenges, partic...
Camera-centric perception has matured into a cornerstone of modern autonomy, from self-driving cars and factory cobots to underwater and planetary exploration. This review synthesizes more than a decade of progress in vision-based robotic navigation...
This paper introduces an innovative EEG sensor-based computational framework that establishes a pioneering nexus between personality trait quantification and neural dynamics, leveraging biosignal processing of brainwave activity to elucidate their in...
Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as key enablers of Future Internet ecosystems, supporting intelligent, adaptive, and context-aware services across distributed cyber-physical environments. Beyond traditional natural language processing, LLMs...
Multimodal sensor fusion is increasingly used to improve observability for fault diagnosis and prognostics, enabling Remaining Useful Life estimation in complex mechatronic and robotic systems. Yet, real-world deployments remain vulnerable to sensor...
AI-empowered smart sensor networks are driving Internet of Things (IoT) systems from passive data acquisition toward human-centric dynamic perception. In such scenarios, multimodal emotion recognition is expected to infer subtle affective states from...
Driven by the development of next-generation wireless networks and the widespread adoption of sensing, communication is shifting from traditional bit-level transmission to intelligent, rich interactions within our digital social system. However, exis...
As global urban centers transition into “Super-Aged Societies,” the paradigm of urban sustainability has shifted from mere housing provision to the development of Sustainable Care Retirement Communities (SCRCs). This study addresses a cri...
As robots take on a growing role in creative work, an important question is often overlooked: how do we preserve people’s sense of psychological ownership over what they create together with a machine? This study integrates a large-scale scient...
Sales enablement sensing-as-a-service (SESaaS) is an organisation’s future process management for any sales management operation. With an expanding base of dynamic customer demands and the adoption of multiple technological advancements, there...
Sound governance arrangement in socio-ecological systems (human niche) combines different means of sense-making. The sustainability of human niche-building depends on the governability of the social-ecological systems (SES) forming the niche. Experie...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are converging to create densely sensed, connected, and increasingly automated urban environments. However, research on AI–IoT integration remains dominated by optimisation-centric p...
Improving HVAC energy efficiency while maintaining collective thermal comfort remains challenging in multi-occupant shared indoor environments, where occupants differ in thermal sensation, activity level, clothing condition, and spatial distribution....
Mixed reality (MR) enables a novel way to visualize virtual objects on real scenarios considering physical constraints. This technology arises with other significant advances in the field of sensors fusion for human-centric 3D capturing. Recent advan...
High-efficiency electric motors represent a core enabling technology for sustainable industrial systems, providing substantial opportunities to reduce electricity consumption, operating costs, and associated greenhouse gas emissions across motor-driv...
Drawing on Karl Marx’s ecological concepts of the “metabolic rift” and the “emancipation of senses”, this paper explores an alternative ecocinema that integrates the ecological with the social and the economic. Early Hol...
The inappropriate thermal conditions resulting from increasingly severe climate issues have led to numerous complications for urban residents, decreased urban settlement comfort, and increased average and peak energy demands in built environments. Ex...
Modern infrastructure must evolve from reactive, centralised models towards proactive, resilient, and human-centric systems aligned with Industry 5.0. Digital Twin (DT) technologies have emerged as a promising enabler of this transition, but their wi...
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