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Human activity recognition (HAR) is a classification task that aims to classify human activities or predict human behavior by means of features extracted from sensors data. Typical HAR systems use wearable sensors and/or handheld and mobile…

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has recently received remarkable attention in numerous applications such as assisted living and remote monitoring. Existing solutions based on sensors and vision technologies have obtained achievements but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yanling Hao , Zhiyuan Shi , Yuanwei Liu

Behavioral changes in daily life activities at home can be digital markers of cognitive decline. However, such changes are difficult to assess through sporadic clinical visits and remain challenging to interpret from continuous in-home…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Gabriele Civitarese , Claudio Bettini

Smartphones have been the most popular and widely used devices among means of communication. Nowadays, human activity recognition is possible on mobile devices by embedded sensors, which can be exploited to manage user behavior on mobile…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Hoda Sedighi

Wearables are fundamental to improving our understanding of human activities, especially for an increasing number of healthcare applications from rehabilitation to fine-grained gait analysis. Although our collective know-how to solve Human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Alireza Abedin , Mahsa Ehsanpour , Qinfeng Shi , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Healthcare monitoring is crucial, especially for the daily care of elderly individuals living alone. It can detect dangerous occurrences, such as falls, and provide timely alerts to save lives. Non-invasive millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zhanzhong Gu , Xiangjian He , Gengfa Fang , Chengpei Xu , Feng Xia , Wenjing Jia

This paper proposes an interactive system for mobile devices controlled by hand gestures aimed at helping people with visual impairments. This system allows the user to interact with the device by making simple static and dynamic hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Samer Alashhab , Antonio Javier Gallego , Miguel Ángel Lozano

Due to the increasing number of mobile robots including domestic robots for cleaning and maintenance in developed countries, human activity recognition is inevitable for congruent human-robot interaction. Needless to say that this is indeed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Iyiola E. Olatunji

The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly empowering people with an interconnected world of physical objects ranging from smart buildings to portable smart devices such as wearables. With recent advances in mobile sensing, wearables have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Sudip Vhaduri , Christian Poellabauer

Mindless eating, or the lack of awareness of the food we are consuming, has been linked to health problems attributed to unhealthy eating behaviour, including obesity. Traditional approaches used to moderate eating behaviour often rely on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Ben Nicholls , Chee Siang Ang , Eiman Kanjo , Panote Siriaraya , Woon-Hong Yeo , Athanasios Tsanas

Objective: Participation in a physical therapy program is considered one of the greatest predictors of successful conservative management of common shoulder disorders. However, adherence to these protocols is often poor and typically worse…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-10 David Burns , Nathan Leung , Michael Hardisty , Cari Whyne , Patrick Henry , Stewart McLachlin

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development in the research topic of WiFi sensing that automatically senses human with commercial WiFi devices. This work falls into two major categories, i.e., the activity recognition and the indoor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jianwei Feng , Yinliang Zhao , Xiaobin Zhang , Shiyuan Zhang , Jinsong Han

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a crucial technology for many applications such as smart homes, surveillance, human assistance and health care. This technology utilises pattern recognition and can contribute to the development of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Farhad Nazari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer , Abbas Khosravi

We present ActSonic, an intelligent, low-power active acoustic sensing system integrated into eyeglasses that can recognize 27 different everyday activities (e.g., eating, drinking, toothbrushing) from inaudible acoustic waves around the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Saif Mahmud , Vineet Parikh , Qikang Liang , Ke Li , Ruidong Zhang , Ashwin Ajit , Vipin Gunda , Devansh Agarwal , François Guimbretière , Cheng Zhang

Young children are at an increased risk of contracting contagious diseases such as COVID-19 due to improper hand hygiene. An autonomous social agent that observes children while handwashing and encourages good hand washing practices could…

In this study, we propose a method for single sensor-based activity recognition, trained with data from multiple sensors. There is no doubt that the performance of complex activity recognition systems increases when we use enough sensors…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Paula Lago , Moe Matsuki , Sozo Inoue

A key aspect of developing fall prevention systems is the early prediction of a fall before it occurs. This paper presents a statistical overview of results obtained by analyzing 22 activities of daily living to recognize physiological…

Smartphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and ad-hoc wearable devices are being increasingly used to monitor human activities. Data acquired by the hosted sensors are usually processed by machine-learning-based algorithms to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano

There has been a resurgence of applications focused on Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in smart homes, especially in the field of ambient intelligence and assisted living technologies. However, such applications present numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Srivatsa P , Thomas Plötz

MEx: Multi-modal Exercises Dataset is a multi-sensor, multi-modal dataset, implemented to benchmark Human Activity Recognition(HAR) and Multi-modal Fusion algorithms. Collection of this dataset was inspired by the need for recognising and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Anjana Wijekoon , Nirmalie Wiratunga , Kay Cooper