Wearable computing systems play an increasingly important role in recreational and elite
sports. They comprise of two important parts. The first are sensors embedded into clothes …

Wearable sports technology such as fitness trackers, smart watches or heart rate sensors
has become ubiquitous in our everyday lives. This technology enables even recreational …

Ubiquitous (pervasive) computing is a term for a synergetic use of sensing, communication
and computing. Pervasive use of computing has seen a rapid increase in the current …

Recent advancement in digital technologies is driving a remarkable transformation in sports,
health, and medical engineering, aiming to achieve the accurate quantification of …

The use of small, interconnected and intelligent tools within the broad framework of
pervasive computing for analysis and assessments in sport and physical activity is not a …

Until recent years most research involving the capture and analysis of biometric and/or
physiological signals have been limited to a laboratory or otherwise controlled environment …

Very few of today's applications and application scenarios of ubiquitous computing and
wearable computing are highly convincing and employed in real-world settings. With respect …

In elite sports real-time feedback of biomechanical parameters is indispensable to achieve
performance enhancement. Wearables including embedded data analysis are a suitable …

Wearable devices are considered to evaluate the performance of athletes during sports
activities. Preliminary steps include recording motion variables at a sufficiently high sample …

Significant similarities were noticed post-publication between this special issue article and
other published sources. There is an indication that attempts have been made to disguise …