We admit to facing a moment of vulnerability and not feeling confident of receiving any submissions to our Research Topic on Wearable Technologies and Physiological Assessment for the Frontiers in Digital Health journal when the call was announced in 2021. While wearable technology has been listed, since 2016, among the top trends (1) in our narrow field of interest (2, 3), we were hesitant about its broader appeal. Perhaps for those reasons we deliberately asked for a wide range of applications in which wearable technology could obtain physiological data, from telehealth and clinical trials to diversity, inclusion, and environmental health.
