Wearable sensors : fundamentals, implementation and applications / edited by Edward Sazonov, Michael R. Neuman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wearables: fundamentals, advancements, and a roadmap for the future / Sungmee Park, Kyunghee Chung, and Sundaresan Jayaraman -- Social aspects of wearability and interaction / Lucy Dunne, Halley Profita, and Clint Zeagler -- Wearable haptics / Yuichi Kurita -- Wearable bio and chemical sensors / Shirley Coyle, Vincenzo F. Curto, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Larisa Florea, and Dermot Diamond -- Wearable intertial sensors and their applications / Toshiyo Tamura -- Application of optical heart rate monitoring / Mathieu Lemay, Mattia Bertschi, Josep Sola, Philippe Renevey, Jakub Parak, and Ilkka Korhonen -- Measurement of energy expenditure by body-worn heat-flow sensors / Neil Szuminsky, John Dykstra, and Ed Melanson -- Knitted electronic textiles / Rita Paradiso, Laura Caldani, and Maria Pacelli -- Woven electronic textiles / Tomohiro Kuroda, Hideya Takahashi, and Atsuji Masuda -- Flexible electronics from foils to textiles: materials, devices, and assembly / Giovanni Salvatore and Gerhard Tr�oster -- Energy harvesting at the human body / Loreto Mateu, Tobias Dr�ager, Iker Mayordomo, and Markus Pollak -- Introduction to RF energy harvesting / W.A. Serdijn, A.L.R. Mansano, and M. Stoopman -- Low-power integrated circuit design for wearable biopotential sensing / Sohmyung Ha, Chul Kim, Yu M. Chi, and Gert Cauwenberghs -- Wearable algorithms: an overview of a truly multi-disciplinary problem / Guangwei Chen, Esther Rodriguez-Villegas, and Alexander J. Casson -- Mining techniques for body sensor network data repository / Vitali Loseu, Jian Wu, and Roozbeh Jafari -- Modeling physical activity behavior change / Edmund Seto and Ruzena Bajcsy -- Human body communication for a high data rate sensor network / Jung-Hwan Hwang and Chang-Hee Hyoung -- Channel models for on-body communications / H.G. Sandalidis and I. Maglogiannis -- Trust establishment in wireless body area networks / Shucheng Yu, Ming Li, and Lu Shi -- Wireless body area networks / Paolo Barsocchi and Francesco Potort�i -- Fundamentals of wearable sensors for the monitoring of physical and physiological changes in daily life / Masaaki Makikawa, Naruhiro Shiozawa, and Shima Okada -- Wearing sensors inside and outside of the human body for the early detection of diseases / Carmen C.Y. Poon, Yali Zheng, Ningqi Luo, Xiaorong Ding, and Yuan Ting Zhang -- Wearable and non-invasive assistive technologies / Maysam Ghovanloo and Xueliang Huo -- Detection and characterization of food intake by wearable sensors / Juan M. Fontana and Edward Sazonov.

Wearable Sensors covers a wide variety of topics associated with the development and application of various wearable sensors. It also provides an overview and coherent summary of many aspects of current wearable sensor technology. Both industry professionals and academic researchers will benefit from this comprehensive reference which contains the most up-to-date information on the advancement of lightweight hardware, energy harvesting, signal processing, and wireless communications and networks. Practical problems with smart fabrics, biomonitoring and health informatics are all addressed, plus end user centric design, ethical and safety issues.-- Source other than Library of Congress.