About IEEE Internet Computing

IEEE Internet Computing provides journal-quality evaluation and review of emerging and maturing Internet technologies and applications. The magazine targets the technical and scientific Internet user communities as well as designers and developers of Internet-based applications and enabling technologies. IC publishes refereed articles on the latest developments and key trends in Internet technologies and applications.

A crossroads between academic researchers and software professionals, the magazine presents novel content from academic and industry experts on a wide range of topics, including applications, architectures, information management, middleware, policies, security, and standards. It applies theory to the practice of building Internet systems and feeds the experience of Internet system construction and use back into research and theory. The magazine reaches more than 7,000 subscribers internationally, comprising leading researchers, developers, and engineers.

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Special Issue on Wearable Computing
Submission Date: 2026-03-25

We invite researchers to contribute to our forthcoming special issue on Wearable Computing. Wearable systems are rapidly reshaping how humans sense, interact with, and interpret the world. Advances in miniaturised electronics, ultra-low-power sensing, wireless connectivity, on-device machine learning, edge and cloud hybrid architectures, and the growing integration of multimodal large language models and foundation models have enabled new generations of intelligent, body-worn devices. These systems increasingly support applications in health monitoring, augmented and mixed reality, human-machine collaboration, pervasive sensing, and next-generation Internet-of-Things ecosystems.

This special issue of IEEE Internet Computing will spotlight advances across the full stack of wearable systems. We seek submissions that examine core technologies, device and system architectures, sensing and inference pipelines, communication protocols, user interfaces, and large-scale deployments that contribute to the development of reliable, interpretable, accessible, and human-centered wearable computing infrastructures.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Wearable Hardware Platforms: Device form factors, smart textiles, flexible and stretchable electronics, and body-worn sensing systems
    Embedded Sensing and Actuation: Physiological sensing, inertial and motion tracking, multimodal fusion, and context-aware environments
    On-Device Intelligence: Ultra-low-power machine learning, TinyML, distributed learning, and federated learning for wearables
    LLMs, MLLMs, and Foundation Models: On-device adaptation, edge-assisted inference, privacy-preserving training, and wearable-centric agentic applications
    Wearable Communications: Body area networks, device-to-device links, and wearable-to-edge/cloud communication protocols
    Middleware and System Software: Operating systems, resource management, data pipelines, and software frameworks for wearable ecosystems
    Privacy, Security, and Ethics: Continuous monitoring, data leakage risks, access control, trust management, and responsible data practices
    Human–Computer Interaction: User experience, ergonomics, accessibility, and interaction techniques tailored for wearable devices
    Applications: Health and wellness, elder care, sports and fitness, workplace safety, AR/VR/MR interfaces, smart garments, and broader IoT integration
    Edge/Cloud Architectures: Offloading strategies, latency–energy tradeoffs, and hybrid computation models
    Interoperability and Deployment: Standardisation, integration with IoT infrastructures, and scalable field deployments
    User Studies and Societal Impact: Longitudinal deployments, behaviour change, engagement, and ethical considerations
    Evaluation and Testbeds: Benchmarking methods, experimental deployments, testbeds, and reproducibility frameworks