Wearables for Monitoring and Postural Feedback in the Work Context: A Scoping Review.

Wearables offer a promising solution for simultaneous posture monitoring and/or corrective feedback. The main objective was to identify, synthesise, and characterise the wearables used in the workplace to monitor and postural feedback to workers. The PRISMA-ScR guidelines were followed. Studies were included between 1 January 2000 and 22 March 2023 in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese without geographical restriction. The databases selected for the research were PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. Qualitative studies, theses, reviews, and meta-analyses were excluded. Twelve studies were included, involving a total of 304 workers, mostly (n = 8). The remaining studies covered (n = 2), in the (n = 1), and (n = 1). For assessment purposes, most studies used (n = 5) or (n = 5) characterised as (n = 7), (n = 2) or (n = 3). The most common source of feedback was the (n = 6) or (n = 4). was the most prevalent (n = 6), followed by (n = 5) and (n = 3). Most studies employed prototype wearables emphasising kinematic variables of human movement. Healthcare professionals were the primary focus of the study along with haptic feedback that proved to be the most common and effective method for correcting posture during work activities.