Wearable Sensors for Gait, Human Motion Analysis and Health Monitoring: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ambient assisted living; active & healthy ageing technologies; wearable sensors; signal processing; image processing; computer vision; artificial intelligence
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Interests: ambient assisted living; active & healthy ageing technologies; wearable sensors; signal processing; artificial intelligence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human motion analysis and gait analysis have traditionally been performed in laboratories under controlled conditions using expensive equipment. Wearable sensors present an easy-to-use and cheap way to perform both gait and human motion analysis, including in healthcare scenarios, where monitoring is vital.
Wearable sensors are an increasingly popular method for the quantification of performance and workload with mechanical and physiological parameters. A wide range of wearable sensors are commercially available, and when applied to gait analysis or motion analysis, they can provide kinetic and kinematic features, thus representing useful tools for clinicians, researchers and caregivers in real-life contexts.
Wearable smart devices and services can be applied in microelectronics, new sensing technologies and materials, transducers, signal processing, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence tools, making them attractive in biomechanics contexts for both real-life and real-time analysis.
This Special Issue will study the design, implementation, testing, benchmarking and use of wearable sensors and related infrastructures and services, including ambient assisted living, ambient intelligence and IoT paradigms, and reframe the sense of “Smart Living” to ensure inclusion, safety, comfort, high-quality care and healthcare and environmental sustainability. The Special Issue will cover technological issues related to the integration of hardware and processing aspects into wearable smart devices for motion analysis and health monitoring, including mobile, edge, fog and cloud computing.
We invite papers that include, among others, the following topics:
- Posture and gait analysis;
- Human daily motion analysis;
- Gait analysis of elderly and disabled people;
- Home care motion sensing and analysis;
- Wearable sensors and related techniques for medical decision-making;
- Wearable sensors and related techniques for motor diagnosis;
- Wearable sensors and related techniques for human gait recognition;
- Sensing technologies for ambulatory human motion analysis;
- Advanced sensor signal processing;
- Health monitoring systems;
- Industry-related wearable sensors;
- Innovative applications of wearable sensor systems.
Dr. Alessandro Leone
Dr. Gabriele Rescio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wearable sensors
- gait analysis
- human motion
- biomechanics
- health monitoring
- home care
- assisted living
- signal processing
- cloud computing
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