Soft and Wearable Sensors for Digitalization of Human Health

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Soft and wearable sensors are gaining attention, especially in health-related applications. For example, patients recovering from injuries, surgeries or stroke require rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is arduous and expensive, requiring a large amount of resources. A personal digital system where rehabilitation progress can be digitised, analysed, and tracked will mitigate these shortcomings. With the development of our soft, flexible, and stretchable sensors that can measure movement and pressure, truly wearable braces for the joints such as the elbow, knee and ankle that are comfortable to wear that can provide real-time monitoring of unimpeded movement of the limbs and walking gait, providing “true” rehabilitation feedback. It can also be adopted into other medical applications, such as wearable chest bands for breathing monitoring. This presentation will share some of our work on soft sensors based on piezoresistive and capacitive transductions.


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  • Starts 19 April 2026 11:00 AM UTC
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K. C. Aw of University of Auckland

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Soft and Wearable Sensors for Digitalization of Human Health

Soft and wearable sensors are gaining attention, especially in health-related applications. For example, patients recovering from injuries, surgeries or stroke require rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is arduous and expensive, requiring a large amount of resources. A personal digital system where rehabilitation progress can be digitised, analysed, and tracked will mitigate these shortcomings. With the development of our soft, flexible, and stretchable sensors that can measure movement and pressure, truly wearable braces for the joints such as the elbow, knee and ankle that are comfortable to wear that can provide real-time monitoring of unimpeded movement of the limbs and walking gait, providing “true” rehabilitation feedback. It can also be adopted into other medical applications, such as wearable chest bands for breathing monitoring. This presentation will share some of our work on soft sensors based on piezoresistive and capacitive transductions.

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K. C. Aw was born in Georgetown, Malaysia and is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Auckland. He joined the university in 2004. Prior to this academic position, he worked at Intel, Delta Prisma, Altera and Navman for a total of 15 years. He earned his undergraduate degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, M.Sc in Advanced Manufacturing Systems and PhD in Applied Physics (Semiconductor Physics).
His main interests are in micro-systems and deployment of smart/functional materials and structures such as conducting polymers, metallic oxides, etc., which act as sensors and actuators in various applications such as bio-sensors, medical/rehabilitation robots, micro-pumps, micro-manipulators, MEMS, energy harvesters, etc.

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