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Book chapter
Sensors and Wearables
Designing Effective Digital Learning Environments, pp.160-175
Routledge, 1
2025
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of sensors and wearables and the potential benefits for enhancing learning and human performance through instructional and non-instructional interventions. These devices change the dynamics of how individuals acquire, store, and retrieve information, virtually eliminating the disconnect between humans and computers. Wearables include a variety of body-borne sensory, communication, and computational components that may be worn on the body, under, over, or within clothing. Current trends in commercially available wearables include smartwatches, wristbands, smart jewelry, eyewear, headsets, and e-textiles. Wearables have been integrated into a wide variety of contexts for human performance support and improvement of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning. The contexts for wearable integration are vast including military, healthcare, business and industry, and primary through post-secondary educational environments. However, formal research regarding the efficacy of wearables in these environments is emerging with the majority comprised of proof-of-concept studies. Positive effects regarding learning outcomes in primary through post-secondary educational environments have been noted and a trend toward continued rigorous research in adult learning environments is warranted.
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- Title
- Sensors and Wearables
- Edition
- 1
- Publication Details
- Designing Effective Digital Learning Environments, pp.160-175
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher
- Routledge; Abingdon, Oxon
- Copyright
- © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Andreas Gegenfurtner and Ingo Kollar; individual chapters, the contributors
- Identifiers
- 99380625178406600
- Academic Unit
- School of Education; Instructional Design and Technology
- Language
- English