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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Smart Socks and In-Shoe Systems: State-of-the-Art for Two Popular Technologies for Foot Motion Analysis, Sports, and Medical Applications.

Andrei Drăgulinescu, Ana-Maria Drăgulinescu, Gabriela Zincă, Doina Bucur, Valentin Feieș, Dumitru-Marius Neagu

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrei DrăgulinescuElectronics Technology and Reliability Department, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 061071 Bucharest, Romania.
Ana-Maria DrăgulinescuTelecommunications Department, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 061071 Bucharest, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-6096-5793
Gabriela ZincăAutomation and Industrial Informatics Department, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 061071 Bucharest, Romania.
Doina BucurMechatronics Department, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Medical Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 061071 Bucharest, Romania.
Valentin FeieșElectronics Technology and Reliability Department, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 061071 Bucharest, Romania.
Dumitru-Marius NeaguNational Institute of Metrology, 042122 Bucharest, Romania.
Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present paper reviews, for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the most recent advances in research concerning two popular devices used for foot motion analysis and health monitoring: smart socks and in-shoe systems. The first one is representative of textile-based systems, whereas the second one is one of the most used pressure sensitive insole (PSI) systems that is used as an alternative to smart socks. The proposed methods are reviewed for smart sock use in special medical applications, for gait and foot pressure analysis. The Pedar system is also shown, together with studies of validation and repeatability for Pedar and other in-shoe systems. Then, the applications of Pedar are presented, mainly in medicine and sports. Our purpose was to offer the researchers in this field a useful means to overview and select relevant information. Moreover, our review can be a starting point for new, relevant research towards improving the design and functionality of the systems, as well as extending the research towards other areas of applications using sensors in smart textiles and in-shoe systems.

Indexed as

ShoesSportsClothingFootGaitTextilesgait monitoringpedarplantar pressuresensorssports applications

Identifiers

PMID32748872
PMCPMC7435916
OpenAlexW3046653450

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