Individual and joint body movement assessed by wearable sensing as a predictor of attraction in speed dates

Interpersonal attraction is known to motivate behavioral responses in the person experiencing this subjective phenomenon. Such responses may involve the imitation of behavior, as in mirroring or mimicry of postures or gestures, which have been found to be associated with the desire to be liked by an interlocutor. Speed dating provides a...

Distinct cortical activity patterns in Parkinson's disease and essential tremor during a bimanual tapping task

Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET) are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by movement deficits. Especially in PD, maintaining cyclic movement can be significantly disturbed due to pathological changes in the basal ganglia and the cerebellum. Providing external cues improves timing of these movements in PD and...

Inertial sensors—applications and challenges in a nutshell

This editorial provides a concise introduction to the methods and applications of inertial sensors. We briefly describe the main characteristics of inertial sensors and highlight the broad range of applications as well as the methodological challenges. Finally, for the reader’s guidance, we give a succinct overview of the papers included in...

Towards Analyzing and Predicting the Experience of Live Performances with Wearable Sensing

We present an approach to interpret the response of audiences to live performances by processing mobile sensor data. We apply our method on three different datasets obtained from three live performances, where each audience member wore a single tri-axial accelerometer and proximity sensor embedded inside a smart sensor pack. Using these...

Exploring the possibilities for star-tracker assisted calibration of the six individual GOCE accelerometers

A method has been developed and tested for estimating calibration parameters for the six accelerometers on board the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) from star tracker observations. These six accelerometers are part of the gradiometer, which is the prime instrument on board GOCE. It will be shown that by taking...

On transforming accelerometer data to angular rate

The representation of the acceleration field on a rigid body contains as parameters its angular rate and acceleration vectors plus the acceleration vector at a single point of the body. A linear accelerometer measures a local component of the field. From the response of different accelerometers, three quadratic forms in the angular rate of the...