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Wearable devices, such as smartwatches and head-mounted displays, are increasingly used for prolonged tasks like remote learning and work, but sustained interaction often leads to user fatigue, reducing efficiency and engagement. This study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yikan Wang

Foundation models have recently extended beyond natural language and vision to timeseries domains, including physiological signals. However, progress in electrodermal activity (EDA) modeling is hindered by the absence of large-scale,…

Reflective photoplethysmography (PPG) has become the default sensing technique in wearable devices to monitor cardiac activity via a person's heart rate (HR). However, PPG-based HR estimates can be substantially impacted by factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Manuel Meier , Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

Wearables like smartwatches or wrist bands equipped with pervasive sensors enable us to monitor our physiological signals. In this study, we address the question whether they can help us to recognize our emotions in our everyday life for…

Hearth Rate (HR) monitoring is increasingly performed in wrist-worn devices using low-cost photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors. However, Motion Artifacts (MAs) caused by movements of the subject's arm affect the performance of PPG-based HR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Alessio Burrello , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Matteo Risso , Simone Benatti , Enrico Macii , Luca Benini , Massimo Poncino

WiFi-based human sensing has exhibited remarkable potential to analyze user behaviors in a non-intrusive and device-free manner, benefiting applications as diverse as smart homes and healthcare. However, most previous works focus on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Shuokang Huang , Kaihan Li , Di You , Yichong Chen , Arvin Lin , Siying Liu , Xiaohui Li , Julie A. McCann

This study presents ME-WARD (Multimodal Ergonomic Workplace Assessment and Risk from Data), a novel system for ergonomic assessment and musculoskeletal risk evaluation that implements the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) method. ME-WARD…

A synaptic theory of Working Memory (WM) has been developed in the last decade as a possible alternative to the persistent spiking paradigm. In this context, we have developed a neural mass model able to reproduce exactly the dynamics of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-29 Halgurd Taher , Alessandro Torcini , Simona Olmi

There has been a recent tremendous interest in label-free detection of biomarkers which is a critical enabler of point-of-need diagnostics. A low-power, small form factor, multiplexed wearable system is proposed for continuous detection of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Devangsingh Sankhala , Madhavi Pali , Kai-Chun Lin , Badrinath Jagannath , Sriram Muthukumar , Shalini Prasad

This paper proposes a novel lightweight method using the multitaper power spectrum to estimate arousal levels at wearable devices. We show that the spectral slope (1/f) of the electrophysiological power spectrum reflects the scale-free…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Berken Utku Demirel , Ivan Skelin , Haoxin Zhang , Jack J. Lin , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

This paper presents a control interface to translate the residual body motions of individuals living with severe disabilities, into control commands for body-machine interaction. A custom, wireless, wearable multi-sensor network is used to…

We focus on electromagnetoencephalography imaging of the neural activity and, in particular, finding a robust estimate for the primary current distribution via the hierarchical Bayesian model (HBM). Our aim is to develop a reasonably fast…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Atena Rezaei , Alexandra Koulouri , Sampsa Pursiainen

With the rapid development of the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, human activity recognition (HAR) has been applied in a variety of domains such as security and surveillance, human-robot interaction,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Rex Liu , Albara Ah Ramli , Huanle Zhang , Erik Henricson , Xin Liu

Human maintain their body balance by sensorimotor controls mainly based on information gathered from vision, proprioception and vestibular systems. When there is a lack of information, caused by pathologies, diseases or aging, the subject…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Giovanni Costantini , Daniele Casali , Fabio Paolizzo , Marco Alessandrini , Alessandro Micarelli , Andrea Viziano , Giovanni Saggio

Research in mental health has implicated sleep pathologies with depression. However, the gold standard for sleep assessment, polysomnography, is not suitable for long-term, continuous, monitoring of daily sleep, and methods such as sleep…

Continuous, ubiquitous monitoring through wearable sensors has the potential to collect useful information about users' context. Heart rate is an important physiologic measure used in a wide variety of applications, such as fitness tracking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Nutta Homdee , Mehdi Boukhechba , Yixue W. Feng , Natalie Kramer , John Lach , Laura E. Barnes

Passive and non-obtrusive health monitoring using wearables can potentially bring new insights into the user's health status throughout the day and may support clinical diagnosis and treatment. However, identifying segments of free-living…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-31 Yordan P. Raykov , Luc J. W. Evers , Reham Badawy , Marjan J. Faber , Bastiaan R. Bloem , Kasper Claes , Max A. Little

The integration of imitation and reinforcement learning has enabled remarkable advances in humanoid whole-body control, facilitating diverse human-like behaviors. However, research on environment-dependent motions remains limited. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yucheng Xin , Jiacheng Bao , Haoran Yang , Wenqiang Que , Dong Wang , Junbo Tan , Xueqian Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Elderly gait is a source of rich information about their physical and mental health condition. As an alternative to the multiple sensors on the lower body parts, a single sensor on the pelvis has a positional advantage and an abundance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Muhammad Zeeshan Arshad , Ankhzaya Jamsrandorj , Jinwook Kim , Kyung-Ryoul Mun

Recent research has demonstrated the capability of behavior signals captured by smartphones and wearables for longitudinal behavior modeling. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive public dataset that serves as an open testbed for fair…