Sensors for Exercise and Sport Activities: From Health Promotion to Sports Performance
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2020) | Viewed by 59499
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physical activity; exercise physiology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: biometric sensors; 3D depth sensor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During exercise and sport activity, massive joint and muscle movements occur which result in hormonal, cardiopulmonary, and metabolic response. Repetitive participation of exercise and sport activity further results in the improvement of neuromuscular coordination, increase in muscle mass, strength, and power, as well as cardiopulmonary fitness. Traditionally, assessment of physical activity and cardiopulmonary and musculoskeletal fitness require very expensive devices, such as metabolic carts, dynamometers (Cybex and Contrax), and accelerometers (Actigraph). Measurement of movement, physical activity, and fitness levels provide valuable information to predict a person’s health, physical function, and risk of different musculoskeletal and metabolic diseases, such as low back pain, osteoarthritis, shoulder joint problem, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even cancer risk. Furthermore, these types of information also provide postural, kinematic, and biomechanical information during sport activity, which may predict the sports performance of participants. On the other hand, the advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) provide new ways to interact and gain insights into the captured data, which enable analyzing, segmenting, classifying, and recognizing human posture/movement and cardiopulmonary response to exercise and physical and sport activities.
This Special Issue will cover a wide range of topics around exercise and physical and sport activities, including new sensor technologies to capture movement, musculoskeletal/cardiopulmonary response to exercise/physical and sport activities, the application prospect of sensors in exercise and sport activities. and new algorithmic approaches to derive, analyze, and recognize exercise and physical activity sensor data.
Prof. Dr. Justin JeonDr. Seonug Jae Yoo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Exercise
- Physical activity
- Health promotion
- Sports performance
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