Wearable Systems Based Gait Monitoring and Analysis

Introduction.-Characteristics of Gait.- Wearable Gait Detection Technologies.- Gait Analysis Algorithms.-  Medical Applications.- Occupational Applications. Conclusions.

Shuo Gao, Ph.D., is currently an associate professor at the Beihang University, Beijing, China. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge and from 2017 to 2018 was a research associate with University College London, UK. His area of expertise is wearable-system development. Professor Gao has published over 70 articles as the first/last author for peer-reviewed journals and flagship conferences and has been awarded 30 patents in the United States, United Kingdom, and China. He is co-author of the books Touch-Based Human-Machine Interaction: Principles and Applications (Springer, 2021) and A Flexible Multi-Functional Touch Panel for Multi-Dimensional Sensing in Interactive Displays (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He serves on several IEEE technical committees in various capabilities and is a member of the Editorial Board for Materials, Frontiers in Electronics, and Semiconductor Science and Information Devices. In terms of industrial experience, he has worked as a hardware engineer at SIGPRO, Ottawa, Canada, a system engineer at Ciena Corporation, Ottawa, Canada, and a technique consultant at Cambridge Touch Technologies Inc., Cambridge, UK. He is an expert group member of BOE Technology Group Co., Beijing, China.