Inferring social activities with mobile sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Trinh Minh Tri Do;Kyriaki Kalimeri;Bruno Lepri;Fabio Pianesi;Daniel Gatica-Perez

  • Affiliations:
  • Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland;Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy;Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy;Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy;Idiap Research Institute and EPFL, Martigny, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

While our daily activities usually involve interactions with others, the current methods on activity recognition do not often exploit the relationship between social interactions and human activity. This paper addresses the problem of interpreting social activity from human interactions captured by mobile sensing networks. Our first goal is to discover different social activities such as chatting with friends from interaction logs and then characterize them by the set of people involved, and the time and location of the occurring event. Our second goal is to perform automatic labeling of the discovered activities using predefined semantic labels such as coffee breaks, weekly meetings, or random discussions. Our analysis was conducted on a real-life interaction network sensed with Bluetooth and infrared sensors of about fifty subjects who carried sociometric badges over 6 weeks. We show that the proposed system reliably recognized coffee breaks with 99% accuracy, while weekly meetings were recognized with 88% accuracy.