Detecting leisure activities with dense motif discovery

  • Authors:
  • Eugen Berlin;Kristof Van Laerhoven

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt;Technische Universität Darmstadt

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper proposes an activity inference system that has been designed for deployment in mood disorder research, which aims at accurately and efficiently recognizing selected leisure activities in week-long continuous data. The approach to achieve this relies on an unobtrusive and wrist-worn data logger, in combination with a custom data mining tool that performs early data abstraction and dense motif discovery to collect evidence for activities. After presenting the system design, a feasibility study on weeks of continuous inertial data from 6 participants investigates both accuracy and execution speed of each of the abstraction and detection steps. Results show that our method is able to detect target activities in a large data set with a comparable precision and recall to more conventional approaches, in approximately the time it takes to download and visualize the logs from the sensor.