In recent years much progress has been made in the integration of physical transducers into clothing e.g. breathing rate, heart rate and temperature [1]. The integration of chemical sensing into textiles adds a new dimension to the field of smart clothing. Wearable chemical sensors may be used to provide valuable information about the wearer’s health, monitoring the wearer during their daily ro...

Background. In the study of wearable device users, it was found that the intentional motives for using wearable devices were a novelty, fun, and popular trends, but whether the needs and functions of device users will change due to the change the time is the focus of this study. Objectives. This study aims to examine the path relationships among motivation of use, exercise commitment, and exer...

During the last decade, the development of healthcare related information and communication technology (ICT) has shifted from wired and stand-alone systems such as centralized information management towards integrated wireless and embedded devices (Koch, 2005). This shift also has a foundation in the development of smaller handheld devices with increasing computational powers, biosensors, weara...

The present work describes the first example of a wearable salivary metabolite biosensor based on the integration of a printable enzymatic electrode on a mouthguard. The new mouthguard enzymatic biosensor, based on an immobilized lactate oxidase and a low potential detection of the peroxide product, exhibits high sensitivity, selectivity and stability using whole human saliva samples. Such non-...

A wireless body sensor network (WBSN) is a typically wearable wireless network deployed on a user’ body, which consists of biosensors and a local personal wireless hub, which we commonly call wireless body sensor network controller (WBSNC). The sensitive micro data (SMD) of WBSN users is collected by biosensors and forwarded to the WBSNC before it is delivered to the data process center (health...

Capacitive biosensors are an emerging technology revolutionizing wearable sensing systems and personal healthcare devices. They are capable of continuously measuring bioelectrical signals from the human body while utilizing textiles as an insulator. Different textile types have their own unique properties that alter skin-electrode capacitance and the performance of capacitive biosensors. This p...

Health and long term care is a growth area for wearable heath monitoring systems. Wearable diagnostic and therapeutic systems can contribute to timely point-of-care for patients with chronic health conditions, especially chronic neurological disorders, cardiovascular diseases and strokes that are leading causes of mortality worldwide. Diagnostics and therapeutics for patients under timely point...

F requent and noninvasive cardiovascular monitoring is important in surveillance for cardiovascular catastrophes and treatment therapies of chronic disease. Resting heart rate, one of the simplest cardiovascular parameters, is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (comparable with smoking, high blood cholesterol, or hypertension).1 In particular, the association between accelera...