A wearable man-machine interface, comprising: a support member adapted for attachment to a skin area of an extremity of a human or animal body, a flexible layer having magnetic properties attached to the support member on a side facing the skin area of the human or animal body for contacting the surface of the skin area, wherein the flexibility of the layer having magnetic properties is such that the layer is able to at least substantially follow deformations of the surface of the skin area, and wherein the magnetic properties of the layer are such that a magnetic field is generated by the flexible layer and a deformation of the surface of the skin area leads to a measurable change in the magnetic field strength and/or a measurable change in the magnetic flux density of the generated magnetic field, a sensing unit attached to the support element which measures the change in magnetic field strength and/or the change in magnetic flux density, an integrated or separate processing unit arranged to execute an algorithm which allocates the measured change in magnetic field strength and/or the measured change in magnetic flux density to a configuration and/or movement and/or a force with which the movement is performed with the aid of Bayes classifiers, an artificial neural network, a support vector machine, a finite state machine, a Hidden Markov model, a relevance vector machine, a dynamic time warping method, a conditional random field method, a Decision Tree, a Random Forest Method, a k-nearest neighbors algorithm, a Discriminant Analysis, a Linear Regression, a Logistic Regression, a Gaussian Process, a Perceptron and/or Ensemble Methods, such as Bayes Optimal Classifier, bagging, boosting, wherein a configuration is a specific position of the human or animal limb and a movement is a temporal change of a configuration, and a communication unit for data exchange with at least one external device which, based on the data exchanged with the man-machine interface, is able to perform an action corresponding to the at least one allocated configuration and/or movement and/or force with which the movement is performed. a support member adapted for attachment to a skin area of an extremity of a human or animal body, a flexible layer having magnetic properties attached to the support member on a side facing the skin area of the human or animal body for contacting the surface of the skin area, wherein the flexibility of the layer having magnetic properties is such that the layer is able to at least substantially follow deformations of the surface of the skin area, and wherein the magnetic properties of the layer are such that a magnetic field is generated by the flexible layer and a deformation of the surface of the skin area leads to a measurable change in the magnetic field strength and/or a measurable change in the magnetic flux density of the generated magnetic field, a sensing unit attached to the support element which measures the change in magnetic field strength and/or the change in magnetic flux density, an integrated or separate processing unit arranged to execute an algorithm which allocates the measured change in magnetic field strength and/or the measured change in magnetic flux density to a configuration and/or movement and/or a force with which the movement is performed with the aid of Bayes classifiers, an artificial neural network, a support vector machine, a finite state machine, a Hidden Markov model, a relevance vector machine, a dynamic time warping method, a conditional random field method, a Decision Tree, a Random Forest Method, a k-nearest neighbors algorithm, a Discriminant Analysis, a Linear Regression, a Logistic Regression, a Gaussian Process, a Perceptron and/or Ensemble Methods, such as Bayes Optimal Classifier, bagging, boosting, wherein a configuration is a specific position of the human or animal limb and a movement is a temporal change of a configuration, and a communication unit for data exchange with at least one external device which, based on the data exchanged with the man-machine interface, is able to perform an action corresponding to the at least one allocated configuration and/or movement and/or force with which the movement is performed.