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. AccLock: Unlocking Identity with Heartbeat Using In-Ear Accelerometers

    May 12, 2026Lei Wang, Jiangxuan Shen, Xi Zhang +6Biometric IdentificationWearable Sensing

    Soochow University, China · Macquarie University, Australia · Aalborg University, Denmark +2

  2. BenchHAR: Benchmarking Self-Supervised Learning for Generalizable Sensor-based Activity Recognition

    May 8, 2026Yize Cai, Rui Feng, Anlan Yu +2Human Activity RecognitionSelf-Supervised Time Series Representation Learning

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Peking University · Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

  3. Temporal Structure Matters for Efficient Test-Time Adaptation in Wearable Human Activity Recognition

    May 6, 2026Zishu Zhou, Zaipeng Xie, Xuanyao JieTest-Time AdaptationHuman Activity Recognition

    College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Hohai University

  4. HARMES: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Wearable Human Activity Recognition with Motion, Environmental Sensing and Sound

    May 4, 2026Robin Burchard, Pascal-André Brückner, Marius Bock +2Human Activity RecognitionWearable Sensing

    University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany · University of Bonn and & Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Bonn, Germany

  5. EduGage: A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Sensor-Based Momentary Assessment of Engagement in Self-Guided Video Learning

    May 2, 2026Zikang Leng, Edan Eyal, Yingtian Shi +3Wearable SensingUser Modeling

    College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA · School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

  6. Introducing WARM-VR: Benchmark Dataset for Multimodal Wearable Affect Recognition in Virtual Reality

    Apr 30, 2026Karim Alghoul, Faisal Mohd, Fedwa Laamarti +2Wearable SensingMultimodal Emotion Recognition

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Canada · Computer Vision Department, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  7. Missingness-Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Fusion for Human Activity Recognition from Low-Quality Wearable Sensor Data

    Apr 29, 2026Jiangtao Fan, Anish Jindal, Amir Atapour-AbarghoueiHuman Activity RecognitionWearable Sensing

    Department of Computer Science, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.

  8. GEGLU-Transformer for IMU-to-EMG Estimation with Few-Shot Adaptation

    Apr 28, 2026Miroljub Mihailovic, Luca Tonin, Stefano Tortora +1TransformerWearable Sensing

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, 35131 Padua, Italy

  9. PI-TTA: Physics-Informed Source-Free Test-Time Adaptation for Robust Human Activity Recognition on Mobile Devices

    Apr 28, 2026Changyu Li, Lu Wang, Ming Lei +4Test-Time AdaptationHuman Activity Recognition

    School of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University, Dongguan, China · College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China · University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K. +2

  10. Selective Correlation Based Knowledge Distillation for Ground Reaction Force Estimation

    Apr 27, 2026Eun Som Jeon, Jisoo Lee, Huisu Lim +3Gait AnalysisWearable Sensing

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, 01811, Republic of Korea · Geometric Media Lab, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85281, AZ, USA · School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, 82587, AZ, USA +1

  11. An Affordable, Wearable Stereo-Eye-Tracking Platform

    Apr 27, 2026Alexander Zimmer, Yasmeen Abdrabou, Enkelejda KasneciWearable SensingEye Tracking

    Human-Centered Technologies for Learning, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  12. Decoding High-Dimensional Finger Motion from EMG Using Riemannian Features and RNNs

    Apr 24, 2026Martin Colot, Cédric Simar, Guy Cheron +23D Hand Pose EstimationNeural Decoding

    Machine Learning Group, ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium · § These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship. · Neuromove, ULB Neuroscience Institute, ULB, Brussels, Belgium +1

  13. An Algorithm for On-Sensor Agnostic Detection of Changes in Human Activity for Ultra-Low-Power Applications

    Apr 24, 2026Sara Rimoldi, Arianna De Vecchi, Hazem Hesham Yousef Shalby +1Adaptive InferenceHuman Activity Recognition

    Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  14. Seeing Without Eyes: 4D Human-Scene Understanding from Wearable IMUs

    Apr 23, 2026Hao-Yu Hsu, Tianhang Cheng, Jing Wen +24D ReconstructionWearable Sensing

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  15. Parkinson's Disease Detection via Self-Supervised Dual-Channel Cross-Attention on Bilateral Wrist-Worn IMU Signals

    Apr 20, 2026Meheru ZannatCross-AttentionSelf-Supervised Time Series Representation Learning

    Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh

  16. Stress Detection Using Wearable Physiological and Sociometric Sensors

    Apr 14, 2026Oscar Martinez Mozos, Virginia Sandulescu, Sally Andrews +4Multimodal Sensor FusionWearable Sensing

    Dept. of Electronics, Computer Technology and Projects, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Plaza del Hospital, n1, 30202, Cartagena, Spain · Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest, 060042, Romania · Division of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU, UK +2

  17. Machine Learning-Based Real-Time Detection of Compensatory Trunk Movements Using Trunk-Wrist Inertial Measurement Units

    Apr 14, 2026Jannis Gabler, Clément Lhoste, Max Quast +5Wearable Sensing

    Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · TU Munich, Germany · Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ), Switzerland +1

  18. Towards Green Wearable Computing: A Physics-Aware Spiking Neural Network for Energy-Efficient IMU-based Human Activity Recognition

    Apr 12, 2026Naichuan Zheng, Hailun Xia, Zepeng Sun +2Spiking Neural NetworksHuman Activity Recognition

    School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · International School, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  19. Query-Conditioned Graph Retrieval for Contextualized LLM Reasoning in Personalized Wearable Data

    Apr 10, 2026Zhenyu Lu, Mahyar Abbasian, Amir M. RahmaniGraph Retrieval-Augmented GenerationGraph-Based Retrieval

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of California, Irvine

  20. Stress Estimation in Elderly Oncology Patients Using Visual Wearable Representations and Multi-Instance Learning

    Apr 8, 2026Ioannis Kyprakis, Vasileios Skaramagkas, Georgia Karanasiou +10OncologyWearable Sensing

    ECE Dept. HMU; FORTH-ICS; Heraklion, Greece · FORTH-BRI; Ioannina, Greece · Ioannina Univ. Hosp., UoI Med. Sch.; Ioannina, Greece +6

  21. ActivityNarrated: An Open-Ended Narrative Paradigm for Wearable Human Activity Understanding

    Apr 1, 2026Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, Mengxi Liu, Alcina Pinto +4Human Activity RecognitionCross-Modal Alignment

    DFKI, Germany · RPTU

  22. Sit-to-Stand Transitions Detection and Duration Measurement Using Smart Lacelock Sensor

    Mar 31, 2026Md Rafi Islam, Md Rejwanul Haque, Elizabeth Choma +4Human Activity RecognitionWearable Health Monitoring

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 · Genesis Medtech USA Inc · Whitworth University's Doctor of Physical Therapy program +2

  23. BadminSense: Enabling Fine-Grained Badminton Stroke Evaluation on a Single Smartwatch

    Mar 23, 2026Taizhou Chen, Kai Chen, Xingyu Liu +2Wearable SensingHuman Activity Recognition

    Department of Computer Science, Shantou University, Shantou, China · CSSE, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China · Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, China

  24. A Multi-Modal CNN-LSTM Framework with Multi-Head Attention and Focal Loss for Real-Time Elderly Fall Detection

    Mar 20, 2026Lijie Zhou, Luran WangFall DetectionWearable Sensing

    School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China · School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China

  25. SurfaceXR: Fusing Smartwatch IMUs and Egocentric Hand Pose for Seamless Surface Interactions

    Mar 19, 2026Vasco Xu, Brian Chen, Eric J. Gonzalez +4Gesture RecognitionMultimodal Sensor Fusion

    Vasco Xu and Henry Hoffmann are with the University of Chicago. · Brian Chen is with Northwestern University. · The remaining co-authors are with Google. +1

  26. A Multi-Modal Dataset for Ground Reaction Force Estimation Using Consumer Wearable Sensors

    Mar 19, 2026Parvin Ghaffarzadeh, Debarati Chakraborty, Koorosh Aslansefat +2Wearable Sensing

    Department of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence and Modelling (DAIM), University of Hull, UK · School of Computer Science, University of Hull, UK · School of Science & Technology, Nottingham Trent University, UK

  27. Multi-material Direct Ink Writing and Embroidery for Stretchable Wearable Sensors

    Mar 18, 2026Lukas Cha, Ryman Hashem, Ria Prakash +3Wearable Sensing

    Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, UK · The Podium Institute for Sports Medicine and Technology, University of Oxford, UK · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

  28. Electrodermal Activity as a Unimodal Signal for Aerobic Exercise Detection in Wearable Sensors

    Mar 16, 2026Rena Mira Krishna, Ramya Sankar, Shadi GhiasiHuman Activity RecognitionWearable Sensing

    Odle Middle School · ImagineQ Labs, Bellevue, WA, USA · Cambridge Center for International Research, United Kingdom

  29. User-Tailored Learning to Forecast Walking Modes for Exosuits

    Mar 16, 2026Gabriele Abbate, Enrica Tricomi, Nathalie Gierden +3Assistive RoboticsWearable Sensing

    Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), USI-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland · Munich Institute for Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Department of Computer Engineering, School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany.

  30. CFD-HAR: User-controllable Privacy through Conditional Feature Disentanglement

    Mar 12, 2026Alex Gn, Fan Li, S Kuniyilh +1Privacy-Preserving Representation LearningHuman Activity Recognition