Wearable Sensing

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Wearable sensing studies how devices such as watches, inertial sensors, physiological monitors, smart textiles, and glasses can measure movement, body signals, and interactions in daily life. Researchers use signal processing and machine learning—from handcrafted features and convolutional or recurrent networks to self-supervised and foundation models—to recognize activities, estimate health or movement states, and support assistive control. Evaluation commonly uses benchmarks such as PAMAP2, WISDM, WESAD, and SisFall, with subject-independent tests increasingly important for assessing performance on new people. A central challenge is making systems reliable across users, sensor placements, missing or noisy data, and real-world conditions while meeting privacy, battery, and on-device computing limits.

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  1. Understanding Everyday Communication Patterns, Stress, and Productivity in Hybrid Work through Egocentric Wearable Audio Sensing

    Oct 27, 2026Tiantian Feng, Aditya Kommineni, Emily Zhou +4Wearable SensingMental Health

    Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory, University of Southern California, USA⋆ · Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, USA‡ · Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, USA†

  2. Towards Field-Deployable Wearable IMU Systems for Occupational Activity Recognition

    Oct 22, 2026Ihsan Ul Haq, James Brusey, Farnad Nasirzadeh +1Human Activity RecognitionWearable Sensing

    Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling, Coventry University, United Kingdom · School of Architecture and Built Environment Deakin University, Australia · School of Information Technology Deakin University, Australia

  3. Timing-Aware and Interpretable Self-Attention for Event-Based Wearable Task Transition Detection

    Oct 20, 2026Anda Ouyang, Siyuan Chen, Julien EppsTemporal AttentionInterpretable Time-Series Classification

    School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia

  4. Location-Based Safety Management with Wearable Seamless Indoor-Outdoor Positioning

    Oct 15, 2026Anh-Van Vu, Seungwoo Chae, Changmin Sung +2Wearable SensingMap-Based Localization

    Department of Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  5. A Black-Box Positioning Solution for Effortless Integration in Wearable Navigation

    Oct 15, 2026Anh-Van Vu, Changmin Sung, Dongsoo HanInertial NavigationWearable Sensing

  6. CoWear: Towards Collaborative Wearable Inertial Localization with Multiple Smart Devices

    Oct 14, 2026Zhuoyuan She, Zhanpeng Zhang, Yapeng Chen +3Cooperative LocalizationInertial Navigation

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. · School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. · School of Space and Earth Sciences, Beihang University, Beijing, China. +1

  7. Robust Real-Time Monocular Human Pose Estimation with Insole-Based Sensor Fusion

    Oct 14, 2026Liang Yu, Tao Zhu, Xiangqing Lu +2Human Pose EstimationMultimodal Sensor Fusion

    University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China · Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

  8. IMU-Bench: Benchmarking Wrist IMU Representations Across Kinematic, Semantic and Clinical Tasks

    Oct 14, 2026Yiquan Li, Aidan Bradshaw, Chenfeng Gao +1Wearable SensingMulti-Task Learning

    Northwestern University

  9. W-JEPA: Wavelet Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture for Wearable Activity Recognition

    Oct 14, 2026Yogesh Prabhu, Loki Natarajan, Jingjing ZouHuman Activity RecognitionRepresentation Learning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego (UCSD). · Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego (UCSD). · UCSD Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. +1

  10. Tread: A Visuo-Inertial Framework for Terrain and Locomotion Context-Aware Gait-Phase and Speed Estimation in Wearable Robotics

    Oct 13, 2026Debadrata Sarkar, Akash Bachhar, Aman AroraTerrain-Aware Robot LocomotionGait Analysis

    Human Centred Robotics and Cybernetics Group, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur 713209, India

  11. EgoExplorer: A Vision-Motion-Touch Observatory for Human Loco-Manipulation In Situ

    Oct 13, 2026Yunsong Zhou, Xuekun Jiang, Haiqi Shen +113D Human ReconstructionWearable Sensing

    Shanghai AI Laboratory · Zhejiang University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  12. FALLNEST: Dual-Domain Dataset Condensation of Imbalanced IMU Data for Wearable Fall Detection

    Oct 13, 2026Rashi Niyas P, Ritika Jain, Hitika TiwariFall DetectionDataset Condensation

    Indian Institute of Technology Madras · Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

  13. Variable Input Masked Autoencoders for Wrist-Worn Accelerometry

    Oct 12, 2026Harish Haresamudram, Wanting Mao, Aditya Radhakrishnan +2Self-Supervised Time Series Representation LearningTime-Series Foundation Models

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Google

  14. Anticipatory Textile MMG-Strain Sensing for Confirm-Then-Assist Soft Knee Exosuits

    Oct 11, 2026Zheng Ma, Xiao Jin, Zhenhua YuWearable SensingSoft Robotics

    Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K. · Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, London, U.K.

  15. CHEAR: Confusion-Hierarchy Evidence-Aware Reasoning for Cost-Efficient Human Activity Recognition

    Oct 11, 2026Xiangqing Lu, Tao Zhu, Mingxing Nie +1Human Activity RecognitionWearable Sensing

  16. PalmSpace: Towards a Versatile On-Palm Interaction Space through Unified Touch Modeling

    Oct 7, 2026Chentao Li, Mingze Gao, Runze Sun +3Wearable SensingTactile Sensing

    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China · Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, China

  17. What the Sleeve Feels: Explainable Machine Learning for Textile Pressure-Based Postural Screening

    Oct 7, 2026Limon Bin Hossain, Md Sadib Rahman AnantaWearable SensingDomain Generalization

    Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

  18. REFIT: Recognize, Fix, and Test Wearable Sensor Placement Shifts without Labels

    Oct 6, 2026Bangxun TangWearable SensingHuman Activity Recognition

    University of California, Irvine, USA

  19. Source-Learned Reliance for Selective Test-Time Adaptation of Multimodal Time Series

    Oct 5, 2026Payal Mohapatra, Yueyuan Sui, Haodong Yang +3Missing-Modality LearningTest-Time Adaptation

    Arm Inc., USA · Northwestern University, USA

  20. Deep Learning for Sleep Heart Rate Estimation from Accelerometers: Toward Population-Scale Cardiac Insight Without Optical Sensors

    Oct 5, 2026Tanbin Islam Rohan, Pranjol Sen Gupta, Tanusree Debi +1TransformerWearable Sensing

    Department of Information Technology Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA, USA · School of Computing University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA

  21. Non-invasive Seizure Detection Using Wearable Wrist-worn Accelerometry and Deep Learning

    Oct 5, 2026Nilushika Udayangani Hewa Dehigahawattage, Kishor Nandakishor, Marimuthu PalaniswamiWearable SensingWearable Health Monitoring

    dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Melbourne Victoria, Australia

  22. Sparse Calibration-Based Personalization of Kernel-Based Gait Phase and Speed Estimation Using Wearable IMUs

    Oct 2, 2026Myeongju Cha, Pilwon HurGait AnalysisWearable Sensing

    Department of Mechanical and Robotics Engineering, GIST, Gwangju, Korea

  23. Characterizing the Performance Gap in Human Activity Recognition for Older Adults

    Oct 2, 2026Hossein Khayami, Sungjin Hwang, Eshed Ohn-Bar +4Human Activity RecognitionWearable Sensing

    University of Maryland College Park, Maryland, USA · Boston University Boston, Massachusetts, USA · University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

  24. An Effective, Reliable, and Robust Framework for Human Activity Recognition Using Wearable Sensors

    Sep 29, 2026Nafees Ahmad, Ho-fung Leung, Muhammad Adil Abid +1Human Activity RecognitionWearable Sensing

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China · Independent Researcher, China · Malmö University, Sweden +1

  25. One Sensor, Whole Body - 3D Body Pose from a Single Consumer Earbud IMU

    Sep 28, 2026Zhilin Guo, Boqiao Zhang, Oszkár Urbán +8Wearable Sensing3D Human Pose Estimation

    University of Cambridge United Kingdom · Chalmers University of Technology Sweden

  26. SenseAgent: An LLM Agent for Adaptive Cross-Domain IMU Sensing

    Sep 25, 2026Tianya Zhao, Chuan Liu, Xuyu WangAdaptive SensingWearable Sensing

    Florida International University Miami, Florida, USA

  27. Skill Profiling with Attributable Reasoning (SPAR): A Wearable Analysis System for Boxing

    Sep 25, 2026Nibraas Khan, Hanchen David Wang, Enya Bullard +5Action Quality AssessmentSports Analytics

    Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA · Department of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA · Independent Researcher +2

  28. When Temporal Perturbations Act Like Sensor Biases: Label-Free Auditing of Wearable Activity Recognizers

    Sep 24, 2026Qingyu Wu, Yuan Wei, Renju Liu +1Human Activity RecognitionAdversarial Attacks

    Defense Innovation Institute, Academy of Military Science, Beijing, China · School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

  29. Edge AI on Constrained Devices for Binary Sleep-Wake Classification in Dynamic Environments

    Sep 24, 2026Stefan Reitmann, Lena OdenTime Series ClassificationWearable Sensing

    Faculty of Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany · Faculty of Computer Science, University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

  30. AnomaSense: Anomaly-based Sensor Activation for Fine-Grained Human Activity Recognition

    Sep 24, 2026Xue Wang, Yang ZhangHuman Activity RecognitionWearable Sensing

    University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA