Introduction to Special Issue on Body Tracking and Healthcare

The Special Issue on Body Tracking and Healthcare highlights the exciting possibilities that sensor technologies are opening up in health and well-being. From the assessment and monitoring of medical conditions, to new opportunities for rehabilitation, to innovations in interaction in the operating theatre, body-tracking technology makes possible a whole new world of applications and systems. One important aspect of this change is that advances in the availability, diversity, cost, robustness, weight, accuracy, and reliability of these sensing systems have meant that we are now seeing a move out of controlled, specialist laboratory settings into the real world.