Wearable sensors provide a means of continuously monitoring a person in a natural setting. These sensors can “look in” by monitoring the wearer’s health through physiological measurements and also by detecting their activities. Other sensors can be used to “look out” from the wearer into the environment through which he/she is moving, which may serve to detect any potential hazards or provide c...

In Wearable Well-Being project PUHVI, HipGuard system for patients recovering from hip surgery was developed. Novel wireless sensors having 3-axis acceleration and 3-axis magnetic sensors are used to measure patient’s hip and leg position and rotation. Furthermore, capacitive insole sensors are used to measure the force between foot and a shoe. This paper concentrates on how these sensors can b...

The gold-standard sensors in many sensing areas have been primarily developed for use in a highly controlled medical or clinical setting, with the chief goal of optimizing their accuracy. Unfortunately for wearable technology, this often means that shortor long-term wearability has been significantly compromised. This paper discusses two case studies where sensing difficulty was experienced due...

A new method for fabricating textile integrable capacitive soft strain sensors is reported, based on multicore-shell fiber printing. The fiber sensors consist of four concentric, alternating layers of conductor and dielectric, respectively. These wearable sensors provide accurate and hysteresis-free strain measurements under both static and dynamic conditions.

Smart homes have a user centered design that makes human activity as the most important type of context to adapt the environment according to people’s needs. Sensor systems that include a variety of ambient, vision based, and wearable sensors are used to collect and transmit data to reasoning algorithms to recognize human activities at different levels of abstraction. Despite various types of a...

A strong effort has been made during the last years in the autonomous and automatic recognition of human activities by using wearable sensor systems. However, the vast majority of proposed solutions are designed for ideal scenarios, where the sensors are pre-defined, wellknown and steady. Such systems are of little application in real-world settings, in which the sensors are subject to changes ...

-Biosensors are analytical tools for the analysis of bio-material samples to gain an understanding of their biocomposition, structure and function by converting a biological response into an electrical signal. Wearable Biosensors (WBS) are the biosensors which can be worn on the body. Recent advancements in miniature devices have fostered a dramatic growth of interest of wearable technology. We...

OBJECTIVES Wearable devices are currently at the heart of just about every discussion related to the Internet of Things. The requirement for self-health monitoring and preventive medicine is increasing due to the projected dramatic increase in the number of elderly people until 2020. Developed technologies are truly able to reduce the overall costs for prevention and monitoring. This is possibl...

An \aaective wearable" is a wearable system equipped with sensors and tools which enables recognition of its wearer's aaective patterns. Af-fective patterns include expressions of emotion such as a joyful smile, an angry gesture, a strained voice or a change in autonomic nervous system activity such as accelerated heart rate or increasing skin conductivity. This paper describes new applications...

Wearable computing promises gaining efficiency improvements in industrial applications due to augmentation of sensing and computational devices, thus improving the interaction between the user and the machine interface. Devices such as head mounted displays (HMDs) or wrist-mounted computers help delivering tailored information to the user while enabling hands-free operations. Sensors sewn into ...