Table 1 Comparison of mental health perception technologies.

From: The analysis of the internet of things technology for mental health of sports education students based on big data

Study

Data source

Method

Target group

Application scenario

Core limitation/distinction

Zhao et al.7

ECG/EEG/motion sensors

Multimodal biosignal fusion

Clinical depression patients

Medical diagnosis

Reliance on costly medical equipment, limited applicability in education

Alkurdi et al.8

Wearable physiological data

Real-world noise filtering model

Individuals with anxiety

Daily monitoring

Lacks integration of behavioral–psychological cross-modal analysis

Begum9

Social media text

Chaotic Simulated Binary PSO (CS-BPSO)

Young internet users

Online screening

Ignores behavior patterns specific to sports training

Atta et al.10

Clinical interview records

Swarm-intelligence-optimized neural network

High-risk depression groups

Automated diagnosis

Requires medical data, limited adaptability to campus scenarios

Song11

Plantar pressure sensors

Biomechanics systematic review

Long-distance runners

Sports injury prevention

No quantitative model linking injury to depression

Halkiopoulos et al.13

AR/VR interaction logs

Machine learning cognitive therapy optimization

Patients with psychological disorders

Virtual therapy

High hardware costs, limited integration with daily teaching

Troussas et al. 14

Educational software interaction logs

Reinforcement learning with dynamic fuzzy weights

General student population

Adaptive learning systems

No focus on psychological state perception

This study

Campus IoT behavioral data

GA–RF hybrid model

Sports education students

Teaching intervention support

(1) Focus on training load–mental state relationship (2) Low-cost integration with campus devices (3) Closed-loop intervention in educational settings