Memorizing What You Did Last Week: Towards Detailed Actigraphy With A Wearable Sensor

  • Authors:
  • Kristof Van Laerhoven;Andre Kvist Aronsen

  • Affiliations:
  • Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany;Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICDCSW '07 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

With sensors becoming smaller and more power efficient, wearable sensors that anyone could wear are becoming a feasible concept. We demonstrate a small lightweight module, called Porcupine, which aims at continuously monitoring human activities as long as possible, and as fine-grained as possible. We present initial analysis of a set of abstraction algorithms that combine and process raw accelerometer data and tilt switch states, to get descriptors of the user's motion-based activities. The algorithms are running locally, and the information they produce is stored in on-board memory for later analysis.