Wearable Sensing | Wenbo Zhang

WatchForce: Wearables Can Tell How Strong You Grasp From Your Wrist

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

WatchForce explores whether everyday wearable signals from the wrist can reveal grasp force, supporting unobtrusive assessment of hand-object interaction.

MuscleSense: Making Muscle Effort Audible for Eyes-Free In-the-Loop Regulation

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

MuscleSense explores how wearable physiological sensing can turn muscle effort into actionable, eyes-free feedback for movement awareness, training, and rehabilitation. It emphasizes feedback-oriented state inference, mobile deployment, and closed-loop user regulation during lower-limb exercise.

HALO

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

HALO studies hidden activation-loading organization: how motion, contact pressure, biomechanical loading, and muscle activation interact beneath observable movement.

The project aims to infer these latent structures from practical sparse wearable signals, making biomechanical organization more accessible outside the lab and easier to connect with feedback-driven mobile health applications.

Wearable Movement Understanding

Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This project line studies how sparse wearable sensors can move from tracking observable body motion to inferring deeper biomechanical and physiological signals such as plantar pressure, ground reaction force, kinetics, muscle activation, and physical interaction.

It connects systems including PressInPose, Motion2Press, KineticsSense, MuscleSense, HALO, and WatchForce into a coherent research route for everyday hidden-state understanding, mobile deployment, and closed-loop wearable feedback.

HALO: Inferring Hidden Activation-Loading Organization from Sparse Wearables

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

HALO studies how practical wearable signals can reveal latent relationships between movement, loading, and muscle activation that are usually hidden outside laboratory measurement setups. It extends the research line from motion and pressure estimation toward interpretable hidden-state organization.

PPGSpeech: A Wearable Silent Speech Interface Leveraging Neck-Worn Photoplethysmography

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

PPGSpeech investigates how neck-worn PPG signals can support silent speech interaction, extending wearable sensing beyond motion and biomechanics into subtle physiological signals for human-computer interaction.

KineticsSense: A Multimodal Wearable Sensor Framework for Modeling Lower-Limb Motion Kinetics

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

KineticsSense extends wearable movement analysis beyond surface kinematics by modeling lower-limb kinetics and muscle activation from sparse wearable signals.

Motion2Press: Cross-Modal Learning from IMU to Plantar Pressure for Gait Analysis

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Motion2Press connects inertial motion sensing with plantar pressure understanding, supporting portable gait analysis beyond laboratory pressure platforms.

A Full-Body Pose Estimation Method and System Based on Pressure and Inertial Sensors

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This granted patent covers a full-body pose estimation method and system based on pressure and inertial sensors. Inventors are listed as Wenbo Zhang et al.

PressInPose: Integrating Pressure and Inertial Sensors for Full-Body Pose Estimation in Activities

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

PressInPose explores how plantar pressure and sparse inertial sensors can support robust full-body pose estimation for sports, rehabilitation, and interactive applications.