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Evaluating and optimising human comfort within the built environment is challenging due to the large number of physiological, psychological and environmental variables that affect occupant comfort preference. Human perception could be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Prageeth Jayathissa , Matias Quintana , Mahmoud Abdelrahman , Clayton Miller

With the increasing number of IoT devices, there is a growing demand for energy-free sensors. Human activity recognition holds immense value in numerous daily healthcare applications. However, the majority of current sensing modalities…

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The growth of mobile sensor technologies have made it possible for city councils to understand peoples' behaviour in urban spaces which could help to reduce stress around the city. We present a quantitative approach to convey a collective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Thomas Johnson , Eiman Kanjo , Kieran Woodward

Much of the energy consumption in buildings is due to HVAC systems, which has motivated several recent studies on making these systems more energy- efficient. Occupancy and activity are two important aspects, which need to be correctly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Rajib Rana , Brano Kusy , Josh Wall , Wen Hu

The paper describes a dataset comprising indoor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, air quality, and noise levels. The data was collected from 10 sensing devices installed in various locations within three single-family…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Sheik Murad Hassan Anik , Xinghua Gao , Na Meng

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a rapidly growing field that utilizes smart devices, sensors, and algorithms to automatically classify and identify the actions of individuals within a given environment. These systems have a wide range…

Remote monitoring of motor functions is a powerful approach for health assessment, especially among the elderly population or among subjects affected by pathologies that negatively impact their walking capabilities. This is further…

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Providing care for ageing populations is an onerous task, and as life expectancy estimates continue to rise, the number of people that require senior care is growing rapidly. This paper proposes a methodology based on Transformer Neural…

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Human health is closely associated with their daily behavior and environment. However, keeping a healthy lifestyle is still challenging for most people as it is difficult to recognize their living behaviors and identify their surrounding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Mengxi Liu , Sungho Suh , Bo Zhou , Agnes Gruenerbl , Paul Lukowicz

In the human activity recognition research area, prior studies predominantly concentrate on leveraging advanced algorithms on public datasets to enhance recognition performance, little attention has been paid to executing real-time kitchen…

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The ubiquity of personal digital devices offers unprecedented opportunities to study human behavior. Current state-of-the-art methods quantify physical activity using 'activity counts,' a measure which overlooks specific types of physical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Marcin Straczkiewicz , Emily J. Huang , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

While physical activity has been described as a primary prevention against chronic diseases, strenuous physical exertion under adverse ambient conditions has also been reported as a major contributor to exacerbation of chronic respiratory…

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Wearable devices have revolutionized healthcare monitoring, allowing us to track physiological conditions without disrupting daily routines. Whereas monitoring physical health and physical activities have been widely studied, their…

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Increasing attention to the research on activity monitoring in smart homes has motivated the employment of ambient intelligence to reduce the deployment cost and solve the privacy issue. Several approaches have been proposed for…

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Accurately assessing the potential value of new sensor observations is a critical aspect of planning for active perception. This task is particularly challenging when reasoning about high-level scene understanding using measurements from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 David Morilla-Cabello , Jonas Westheider , Marija Popovic , Eduardo Montijano

Dynamic models of occupancy patterns have shown to be effective in optimizing building-systems operations. Previous research has relied on CO$_2$ sensors and vision-based techniques to determine occupancy patterns. Vision-based techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Mahsa Pahlavikhah Varnosfaderani , Arsalan Heydarian , Farrokh Jazizadeh

This work makes multiple scientific contributions to the field of Indoor Localization for Ambient Assisted Living in Smart Homes. First, it presents a Big-Data driven methodology that studies the multimodal components of user interactions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Nirmalya Thakur , Chia Y. Han

Advances in embedded devices and wireless sensor networks have resulted in new and inexpensive health care solutions. This paper describes the implementation and the evaluation of a wireless body sensor system that monitors human…

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