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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"wearable sensing"”.
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AI-Driven Wearable Sensing Systems for Human Well-being
Wearable sensing technologies are evolving from simple activity trackers into intelligent, multimodal systems that can continuously assess and enhance human well-being. Traditional devices remain largely passive, limited by heterogeneous data, energy constraints, and opaque AI models. This thesis, …
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Wearable sensing analysis : identifying alcohol drinking from daily physiological data
… analysis pipeline is built and evaluated. Modern wearable technology is integrated without extra burdensome equipment in our system. Simple, they would be just smartphone and a vest suite with sensor in it, those are already our daily-carry personal stuffs. Smartphone application will be in charge …
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Construction Industry Hesitation in Accepting Wearable Sensing Devices to Enhance Worker
… workers in the United States. Advancements in wearable technology have been proven to create a safer construction environment. Despite the availability of these devices, use within the construction industry remains low. The objective of this research is to identify and analyze the causes behind …
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Non-invasive wearable sensing systems for continuous health monitoring and long-term behavior modeling
… profile of a user over time. Most clinical sensing technologies that exist have focused on accuracy and reliability, at the expense of cost-effectiveness, burden on the patient, and portability. Future proactive health technologies, on the other hand, must be affordable, unobtrusive, and …
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Multi-Scale Architecture-Driven Design of Ultra-Soft Conductive Composites for Flexible and Wearable Sensing Applications
Flexible and wearable sensing systems require materials that combine high mechanical compliance with reliable electrical performance under repeated deformation. Conventional soft conductive composites rely on stochastic percolation networks, where conductive fillers are randomly distributed within …
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Monitoring breathing with smart fabrics
Wearable sensing technologies offer promising solutions for non-intrusive monitoring in healthcare, fitness, and assistive applications. This thesis investigates respiration monitoring using off-the-shelf, commercially available stretchable conductive fabric as the sensing element, eliminating the …
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A data fusion-based hybrid sensory system for older people’s daily activity recognition.
… ambient sensors (passive infrared); the wearable data are used to recognize the defined specific daily activities, and the ambient information is used to infer the occupant’s room-level daily routine; 2): proposes a unique and effective data fusion method to hybridize the two-source …
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Founders' dynamics -- interpersonal relationships and between-team interaction in early startups
… and field experiments that make use of Rhythm, a wearable sensing platform designed for measuring social interaction. We first describe the design of the platform and its evaluation process. Then, we describe a large-scale field study in a university startup accelerator program and its results. …
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Machine Learning and Biomechanical Sensing Toward Real-Time In-The-Loop Gait and Joint Health Optimization
Despite advances in wearable sensing and assistive devices, current systems often rely on indirect or delayed signals that limit their ability to capture subcutaneous physiological dynamics in real-time. This challenge hinders progress across domains ranging from exoskeleton control to clinical …
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Responsive IoT : using biosignals to connect humans and smart devices
… is partitioned in two parts. First, I present a wearable sensing system to estimate the thermal comfort level of the user by monitoring skin temperature, blood volume pressure and skin conductivity. This effort is a first step towards connecting room occupants and smart A/C devices, which can …
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Motion artifact reduction for wearable photoplethysmogram sensors using micro accelerometers and laguerre series adaptive filters
… photoplethysmogram (PPG) is an extremely useful wearable sensing medical diagnostic tool. However, the PPG signal becomes highly corrupted when the wearer is in motion, rendering the measured signal useless. This thesis develops an adaptive motion artifact reduction scheme to recover the …
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Integrated Wearable Devices for Prosthetic Applications
… prosthetic systems increasingly relies on wearable electronic interfaces capable of providing accurate sensing and reliable decoding of human intentions. Although technological advances continue, prosthetic abandonment remains a major problem, as current technologies and control strategies …
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Compressive Sensing Approaches for Sensor based Predictive Analytics in Manufacturing and Service Systems
Recent advancements in sensing technologies offer new opportunities for quality improvement and assurance in manufacturing and service systems. The sensor advances provide a vast amount of data, accommodating quality improvement decisions such as fault diagnosis (root cause analysis), and real-time …
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Digital phenotyping through multimodal, unobtrusive sensing
The growing adoption of multimodal wearable and mobile devices, such as smartphones and wrist-worn watches has generated an increase in the collection of physiological and behavioural data at scale. This digital phenotyping data enables researchers to make inferences regarding users’ physical and …
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Multiscale Quantitative Analytics of Human Visual Searching Tasks
… visual searching decisions. The advancements of wearable sensing techniques enable such multiscale quantitative analytics of human visual searching performance. For example, by equipping human users with electroencephalogram (EEG) device, eye tracker, and logging system, the multiscale …
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Development of Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites with Hybrid Structures for Fabrication of Stretchable Strain Sensing and Wearable Electronic Devices
… devices for remote health assessment requires wearable and attachable smart systems. Examples of these monitoring devices are stretchable and skin-mountable strain sensors for human motion detections, sport activities monitoring, soft robotics, and entertainment technology. Several requirements …
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Human Pose Estimation and Algorithms for Alignment and Registration Problems: Applications in Robotics, Computer Vision, and Stroke Rehabilitation
… reconstructing upper-body kinematics from three wearable IMUs (sternum and bilateral forearms) for stroke rehabilitation. Using a synchronized XSens MVN system as reference, we introduce a cross-sensor mapping that transfers standalone XSens DOT measurements into the MVN coordinate system. Two …