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However, practical approaches for integrating circadian-phase-related physiological markers with behavioral and environmental sensing under free-living conditions remain limited. This study presents a multimodal wearable and lifelog monitoring workflow that combines a heat-flux-based wearable temperature-estimation sensor, a wrist-worn actigraph, melanopic equivalent daylight illuminance (EDI) measurement, and web-based lifelog entries. Ten healthy young adults were monitored for approximately one week in daily life. The midpoint between the descending and ascending mid-level crossings of the nocturnal temperature rhythm was extracted as a circadian-phase-related temperature rhythm marker. In a practical comparison with gastrointestinal temperature measured using an ingestible capsule, the wearable-derived rhythm marker showed a mean absolute difference of 27.1 \u00b1 16.6 min. The temporal difference between the two markers was defined as the phase angle, and coupling stability was evaluated using phase angle variability and the correlation between the markers. After excluding one participant who traveled overseas, clustering and principal component analyses were used to visualize exploratory participant-level differences in circadian\u2013behavioral coupling. Integrated analysis with melanopic EDI, activity, and lifelog-derived features suggested that light exposure, activity timing, and behavioral timing may provide contextual information for interpreting coupling patterns in this small cohort. These findings support the feasibility of a sensing system application that integrates physiological, behavioral, environmental, and lifelog data for the exploratory assessment of circadian\u2013behavioral coupling under free-living conditions, rather than the development of new sensor hardware.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s26185703","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,8]],"date-time":"2026-09-08T16:46:04Z","timestamp":1788885964000},"page":"5703","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Integrating Wearable Temperature, Activity, Melanopic Light, and Lifelog Data to Assess Circadian\u2013Behavioral Coupling in Free-Living Conditions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Sora","family":"Matsumoto","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo 1520033, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5894-2939","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuki","family":"Hashimoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo 1520033, Japan"},{"name":"Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Smart Hospital Healthcare, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo 1520033, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3630-5562","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yoshifumi","family":"Nishida","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo 1520033, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"85","article-title":"Overview of Circadian Rhythms","volume":"25","author":"Vitaterna","year":"2001","journal-title":"Alcohol Res. 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