Overview
- Builds on the increased importance of healthy walking for travel around future cities in the post-Covid pandemic era
- Highlights state-of-the-art smart approaches for gait detection and analysis, fall detection, and healthy walking
- Scopes out future research direction, including in activity recognition, gait biometrics, and related fields
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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About this book
This book examines smart technologies and their invaluable role in augmenting the walking experience of mobile users.
From meticulously planned walking routes to precise footprint detection and analysis, as well as cutting-edge fall detection and prevention mechanisms, these intelligent technologies have the potential to revolutionize healthy and smart walking. Against the backdrop of the post-COVID-19 era, where unrestricted mobility has become pivotal for restoring normalcy, the demand for smart healthcare solutions has soared.
The book explores latest advances in sensor technology, cloud computing, deep learning, and networking and related innovative applications that can leverage smart technologies to enhance healthy walking.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Chen has guest edited several special issues on mobile healthcare-related topics for journals including Health Care Management Science, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, etc. He has also published papers on mobile health care in journals such as International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Health Care Management Science, Cognitive Computation, Health Policy and Technology, and Digital Health.
Dr. Lee is the Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal and has guest edited a special issue on wearable inertial sensors for gait for Sensors. She has also published papers on Gait & Posture, IEEE Sensors Journal, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Journal of Biomechanics, Clinical Neurophysiology, etc. She is also an active reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Sensors Journal, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Gait & Posture, etc.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Smart and Healthy Walking
Book Subtitle: Toward Better Health and Life in Smart Cities
Authors: Tin-Chih Toly Chen, Yun-Ju Lee
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59443-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-59442-7Published: 01 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-59443-4Published: 30 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 98
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cities, Countries, Regions, Public Policy, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Cyber-physical systems, IoT, Professional Computing, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention