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. Monitoring and Prediction of Mood in Elderly People during Daily Life Activities

    Mar 11, 2026Daniel Bautista-Salinas, Joaquín Roca González, Inmaculada Méndez +1Affective ComputingHuman Behavior Prediction

    Technical University of Cartagena, 30202 Cartagena, Spain · University of Murcia, 30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain

  2. Bio-Inspired Self-Supervised Learning for Wrist-worn Accelerometer Data

    Mar 11, 2026Prithviraj Tarale, Kiet Chu, Abhishek Varghese +4Human Activity RecognitionSelf-Supervised Time Series Representation Learning

    College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States · Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, United States · Google Health, Seattle, United States +1

  3. VoxCare: Studying Natural Communication Behaviors of Hospital Caregivers through Wearable Sensing of Egocentric Audio

    Mar 11, 2026Tiantian Feng, Kleanthis Avramidis, Anfeng Xu +3Voice Activity DetectionWearable Sensing

    University of Southern California, USA · The University of Memphis, USA

  4. Ethical Fairness in Ubiquitous Health Sensing without Known Attributes

    Mar 10, 2026Shaily Roy, Harshit Sharma, Daniel A. Adler +3Algorithmic FairnessWearable Sensing

    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA · Information Science, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA +1

  5. Model-Free Co-Optimization of Manufacturable Sensor Layouts and Deformation Proprioception

    Mar 9, 2026Yingjun Tian, Guoxin Fang, Aoran Lyu +5Deformable Shape ReconstructionWearable Sensing

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom · Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

  6. Activity Recognition from Smart Insole Sensor Data Using a Circular Dilated CNN

    Mar 4, 2026Yanhua ZhaoHuman Activity RecognitionConvolutional Neural Networks

  7. Event-Driven On-Sensor Locomotion Mode Recognition Using a Shank-Mounted IMU with Embedded Machine Learning for Exoskeleton Control

    Feb 24, 2026Mohammadsaleh Razmi, Iman ShojaeiWearable SensingHuman Activity Recognition

    Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA 95134, USA

  8. DeepFeature: LLM-Empowered Context-aware Feature Generation for Wearable Biosignals

    Dec 9, 2025Kaiwei Liu, Yuting He, Bufang Yang +6Wearable SensingWearable Health Monitoring

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China · The Education University of Hong Kong, China · Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, China +1

  9. A Comparative Study of EMG- and IMU-based Gesture Recognition at the Wrist and Forearm

    Dec 8, 2025Soroush Baghernezhad, Elaheh Mohammadreza, Vinicius Prado da Fonseca +2Human Activity RecognitionWearable Sensing

    Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada · Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Canada

  10. A Wearable Device Dataset for Mental Health Assessment Using Laser Doppler Flowmetry and Fluorescence Spectroscopy Sensors

    Feb 3, 2025Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Khai Le-Duc, Tan-Hanh Pham +7Medical DiagnosisMental Health

    Aston University, Birmingham, UK · University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada · University Health Network, Toronto, Canada +5