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Pedestrian GPS data are key to a better understanding of micro-mobility and micro-behaviour within a neighbourhood. These data can bring new insights into walkability and livability in the context of urban sustainability. However,…

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Daily monitoring of stress is a critical component of maintaining optimal physical and mental health. Physiological signals and contextual information have recently emerged as promising indicators for detecting instances of heightened…

Ingestive behavior plays a critical role in health, yet many existing interventions remain limited to static guidance or manual self-tracking. With the increasing integration of sensors, context-aware computing, and perceptual computing,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jun Fang , Yanuo Zhou , Ka I Chan , Jiajin Li , Zeyi Sun , Zhengnan Li , Zicong Fu , Hongjing Piao , Haodong Xu , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang

In this work we investigate intra-day patterns of activity on a population of 7,261 users of mobile health wearable devices and apps. We show that: (1) using intra-day step and sleep data recorded from passive trackers significantly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-06 Tom Quisel , David C. Kale , Luca Foschini

Consumer wearables enable continuous measurement of physiological data related to stress and recovery, but turning these streams into actionable, personalized stress-management recommendations remains a challenge. In practice, users often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Esther Brown , Victoria Dean , Finale Doshi-Velez

Events are fundamental for understanding how people experience their lives. It is challenging, however, to automatically record all events in daily life. An understanding of multimedia signals allows recognizing events of daily living and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Hyungik Oh , Ramesh Jain

Tracking physical activity reliably is becoming central to many research efforts. In the last years specialized hardware has been proposed to measure movement. However, asking study participants to carry additional devices has drawbacks. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Gabriela Villalobos-Zúñiga , Mauro Cherubini

The increase in world elderly population has significantly underlined the need for continuous health care measurement, specifically in rehabilitation monitoring. The new technologies has enabled people to have in home healthcare services,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shayan Shokri , Shane Ward , Pierre-Amaury M. Anton , Paolo Siffredi , Guglielmo Papetti

People frequently use speech-to-text systems to compose short texts with voice. However, current voice-based interfaces struggle to support composing more detailed, contextually complex texts, especially in scenarios where users are on the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hamza El Alaoui , Atieh Taheri , Yi-Hao Peng , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Smartphones enable understanding human behavior with activity recognition to support people's daily lives. Prior studies focused on using inertial sensors to detect simple activities (sitting, walking, running, etc.) and were mostly…

Moving groups are routinely faced with a choice of different routes as part of their daily lives, such as choosing between exits from a building. Differences in moving speeds and environmental constraints often lead to individuals being…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-16 Anna Sigalou , Yunhe Tong , Charlie Pilgrim , Richard P. Mann , Nikolai W. F. Bode

To date, the majority of positioning systems have been designed to operate within environments that have long-term stable macro-structure with potential small-scale dynamics. These assumptions allow the existing positioning systems to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Savvas Papaioannou , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Health wearables in combination with gamification enable interventions that have the potential to increase physical activity -- a key determinant of health. However, the extant literature does not provide conclusive evidence on the benefits…

General Economics · Economics 2023-01-10 Muhammad Zia Hydari , Idris Adjerid , Aaron D. Striegel

Shift scheduling impacts healthcare workers' well-being because it sets the frame for their social life and recreational activities. Since it is complex and time-consuming, it has become a target for automation. However, existing systems…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Alarith Uhde , Matthias Laschke , Marc Hassenzahl

Quantitative estimation of human joint motion in daily living spaces is essential for early detection and rehabilitation tracking of neuromusculoskeletal disorders (e.g., Parkinson's) and mitigating trip and fall risks for older adults.…

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Context-awareness in smart mobile applications is a growing area of study, because of it's intelligence in the applications. In order to build context-aware intelligent applications, mining contextual behavioral rules of individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Iqbal H. Sarker

Wearable medical technology has become increasingly popular in recent years. One function of wearable health devices is stress detection, which relies on sensor inputs to determine the mental state of patients. This continuous, real-time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Nafiul Rashid , Trier Mortlock , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Predicting the trajectory of pedestrians in crowd scenarios is indispensable in self-driving or autonomous mobile robot field because estimating the future locations of pedestrians around is beneficial for policy decision to avoid…

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Movement disorders are becoming one of the leading causes of functional disability due to aging populations and extended life expectancy. Wearable health monitoring is emerging as an effective way to augment clinical care for movement…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ganapati Bhat , Ranadeep Deb , Umit Y. Ogras

Analysing human gait has found considerable interest in recent computer vision research. So far, however, contributions to this topic exclusively dealt with the tasks of person identification or activity recognition. In this paper, we…

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