Wearable technologies have applications in entertainment, sports, healthcare, industry and for human-computer and human-robot interactions.
This book introduces wearable technologies and their unique ability to sense on-body a variety of physical and physiological parameters. This book introduces the most common sensor technologies found in wearable. It then details how machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques can be used to interpret the data from wearable sensors to infer the context of users, such as their physical activities, social interaction, cognitive-affective states, and others.