title: Challenges of ambulatory physiological sensing.
abstract: Applications for ambulatory monitoring span the spectrum from fitness optimization to cardiac defibrillation. This range of applications is associated with a corresponding range of required detection accuracies and a range of inconvenience and discomfort that wearers are willing to tolerate. This paper describes a selection of physiological sensors and how they might best be worn in the unconstrained ambulatory environment to provide the most robust measurements and the greatest comfort to the wearer. Using wireless mobile computing devices, it will be possible to record, analyze and respond to changes in the wearers' physiological signals in real time using these sensors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Translational Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave., KS-B28, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Healey
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D003020:Clothing; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D009068:Movement; D013784:Textiles