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Visual attention is highly fragmented during mobile interactions, but the erratic nature of attention shifts currently limits attentive user interfaces to adapting after the fact, i.e. after shifts have already happened. We instead study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Julian Steil , Philipp Müller , Yusuke Sugano , Andreas Bulling

Mobile crowdsensing harnesses the sensing power of modern smartphones to collect and analyze data beyond the scale of what was previously possible. In a mobile crowdsensing system, it is paramount to incentivize smartphone users to provide…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Francesco Restuccia , Pierluca Ferraro , Simone Silvestri , Sajal K. Das , Giuseppe Lo Re

Sparse wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) have gained popularity for estimating 3D human motion. However, challenges such as pose ambiguity, data drift, and limited adaptability to diverse bodies persist. To address these issues, we…

Understanding and predicting mobility are essential for the design and evaluation of future mobile edge caching and networking. Consequently, research on prediction of human mobility has drawn significant attention in the last decade.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Babak Alipour , Leonardo Tonetto , Roozbeh Ketabi , Aaron Yi Ding , Jörg Ott , Ahmed Helmy

Smartphones equipped with sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers offer valuable opportunities for physics education, allowing students to measure motion using their own devices. However, commonly used applications…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-03-06 Keita Nishioka , Yasuhiro Tanaka

Modern smartphones have all the sensing capabilities required for accurate and robust navigation and tracking. In specific environments some data streams may be absent, less reliable, or flat out wrong. In particular, the GNSS signal can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Santiago Cortés Reina , Yuxin Hou , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

With the increasing use of smartphones in our daily lives, these devices have become capable of performing many complex tasks. Concerning the need for continuous monitoring of vital signs, especially for the elderly or those with certain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Taha Samavati , Mahdi Farvardin , Aboozar Ghaffari

This paper presents a novel online capable method for simultaneous estimation of human motion in terms of segment orientations and positions along with sensor-to-segment calibration parameters from inertial sensors attached to the body. In…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Bertram Taetz , Gabriele Bleser , Markus Miezal

The extreme pervasive nature of mobile technologies, together with the users need to continuously interact with her personal devices and to be always connected, strengthen the user-centric approach to design and develop new communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Franca Delmastro , valerio Arnaboldi , Marco Conti

IMUs are regularly used to sense human motion, recognize activities, and estimate full-body pose. Users are typically required to place sensors in predefined locations that are often dictated by common wearable form factors and the machine…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Haozhe Zhou , Riku Arakawa , Yuvraj Agarwal , Mayank Goel

Inertial-sensor-based attitude estimation is a crucial technology in various applications, from human motion tracking to autonomous aerial and ground vehicles. Application scenarios differ in characteristics of the performed motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Daniel Weber , Clemens Gühmann , Thomas Seel

Estimating the limbs pose in a wearable way may benefit multiple areas such as rehabilitation, teleoperation, human-robot interaction, gaming, and many more. Several solutions are commercially available, but they are usually expensive or…

Smartphone usage while driving is unanimously considered to be a really dangerous habit due to strong correlation with road accidents. In this paper, the problem of detecting whether the driver is using the phone during a trip is addressed.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Simone Gelmini , Silvia Strada , Mara Tanelli , Sergio Savaresi , Vincenzo Biase

Routine and consistent data collection is required to address contemporary transportation issues.The cost of data collection increases significantly when sophisticated machines are used to collect data. Due to this constraint, State…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Armstrong Aboah , Michael Boeding , Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

We introduce (HPS) Human POSEitioning System, a method to recover the full 3D pose of a human registered with a 3D scan of the surrounding environment using wearable sensors. Using IMUs attached at the body limbs and a head mounted camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Vladimir Guzov , Aymen Mir , Torsten Sattler , Gerard Pons-Moll

Quantification of human attention is key to several tasks in mobile human-computer interaction (HCI), such as predicting user interruptibility, estimating noticeability of user interface content, or measuring user engagement. Previous works…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Mihai Bâce , Sander Staal , Andreas Bulling

Context-aware applications have been gaining huge interest in the last few years. With cell phones becoming ubiquitous computing devices, cell phone localization has become an important research problem. In this paper, we present CellSense,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Mohamed Ibrahim , Moustafa Youssef

Data-driven based method for navigation and positioning has absorbed attention in recent years and it outperforms all its competitor methods in terms of accuracy and efficiency. This paper introduces a new architecture called IMUNet which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Behnam Zeinali , Hadi Zandizari , J. Morris Chang

Tracking body pose on-the-go could have powerful uses in fitness, mobile gaming, context-aware virtual assistants, and rehabilitation. However, users are unlikely to buy and wear special suits or sensor arrays to achieve this end. Instead,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Vimal Mollyn , Riku Arakawa , Mayank Goel , Chris Harrison , Karan Ahuja