BackgroundΒΆ

This section presents the background to wearable devices, including:

  • Wearable devices: An introduction to wearable devices.

  • Signals: The types of signals that wearables acquire.

  • Physiology: The physiological origins of each signal, and the physiological mechanisms such as pulse arrival time which link signals.

  • Applications: The parameters that can be derived from the signals, and their utility in health and wellbeing applications.