Using rhythm awareness in long-term activity recognition

  • Authors:
  • Kristof Van Laerhoven;David Kilian;Bernt Schiele

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Darmstadt, Germany;TU Darmstadt, Germany;TU Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ISWC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper reports on research where users' activities are logged for extended periods by wrist-worn sensors. These devices operated for up to 27 consecutive days, day and night, while logging features from motion, light, and temperature. This data, labeled via 24-hour self-recall annotation, is explored for occurrences of daily activities. An evaluation shows that using a model of the users' rhythms can improve recognition of daily activities significantly within the logged data, compared to models that exclusively use the sensor data for activity recognition.