Application Wearables in Motor Behavior Monitoring and Sport
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2022) | Viewed by 9125
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wearable devices are a wide range of electronic and computing technology products integrated into clothing and accessories comfortably worn on or close to human skin to continuously sense, store and analyze quantified biological, physical, behavioral, or environmental self-data. This monitoring is conducted through applications either installed on these devices or on other intelligent systems constantly connected to the internet that have the capacity to provide feedback communication of key metrics to allow the user to view/access personalized information in real time. The ultimate goal of wearable technology is to provide users with digital personalized services that build insights and highlight actions that enhance understanding of their performance parameters and predict their status.
State-of-the art wearable devices, with friendly user interface and ergonomic design, incorporate diverse and powerful sensors or sensor suites which have small size and low cost, consume little energy, and feature high performance, making them increasingly sophisticated and advanced. These devices have widely been used as a useful and powerful tool for laboratory and field research and have, also, opened up new possibilities for human performance and health research. A particular advantage of utilizing this technology is its ability to improve testing schemes, influence measurement strategies, and replace more expensive and well-established scientific instruments, at least under certain circumstances.
Invention and innovation are in all facets of human life and society. Ground-breaking inventions lead to sustainable innovations that shape the course of human evolution. Human kind is always trying to understand and reinvent itself and at the same time competes against human-kind in a struggle for dominance or in a challenge to set and to smash personal goals. Here comes the role of electronic and computing technology. The use of wearable devices in motor behavior was, is, and will be not only promising, but also a step forward in any kind of movement, in any part of the body, in any physical, social and sport context.
This Special Issue aims to bring together the current state-of-the-art research and future directions in the growing niche of “Application Wearables in Motor Behavior Monitoring and Sport”. For this goal, we cordially invite researchers and engineers from both academia and industry to submit their original and novel work for inclusion in this Special Issue.
The potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Application of wearable devices in motor behavior;
- Application of wearable devices in sports;
- Athlete’s biometrics for signs of exhaustion or injury while on the field;
- Body sensor networks and wearable technology;
- Internet of things, internet of bodies, and internet of everything;
- Human activity recognition and movement classification using wearable sensors;
- Monitor athletic training, performance and recovery after an injury;
- Motor behavior change through wearable technology;
- Monitor cognitive, emotional, and social aspects of sports;
- Smart textiles and wearable technologies for sportswear;
- The future of wearable technology in sports;
- The quantified athlete;
- Wearable sensors for monitoring the internal and external workload of the athlete;
- Wearable technology and big data in sports;
- Wearable technology and situation awareness;
- Wearable technology in injury prevention;
- Wearable technology to support performance enhancement;
- Wearable technology to support skill acquisition and improvement.
Prof. Dr. George Grouios
Guest Editor
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