In recent years, there has been a significant expansion in the development and use of multi-
modal sensors and technologies to monitor physical activity, sleep and circadian rhythms …

At least 50% of the world's elderly population, whose range is fast growing, experience
disturbed sleep. Sleep studies have become an extensive approach serving as a diagnostic …

The world is facing major societal challenges because of an aging population that is putting
increasing pressure on the sustainability of care. While demand for care and social services …

Background Sleeping mattress parameters significantly influence sleeping comfort and
health, as reflected by the extensive investigations of sleeping support biomechanics to …

Heart rate (HR) detection from ballistocardiogram (BCG) signals is challenging because the
signal morphology can vary between and within-subjects. Also, it differs from one sensor to …

Enormous rapid development of Information Communication Technologies (ICT), but also
other closely related domains essentially and immensely changed human society and …

A number of research groups have proposed methods for ballistocardiogram (BCG) peak
detection toward the identification of individual cardiac cycles. However, objective …

Polysomnography is the gold-standard method for measuring sleep but is inconvenient and
limited to a laboratory or a hospital setting. As a result, the vast majority of patients do not …

Instrumented objects (eg, smart mattress) are attractive technologies in the field of long-term
vital signs monitoring because of their unobtrusiveness. Among the existing sensors that can …

The growing popularity of ubiquitous computing devices, such as smartphones, wristbands
and smartwatches, has caused an increase in the scale of collecting physiological and …