Smartphone-based Transport Mode Detection for Elderly Care

Smartphones are everywhere, and they are a very attractive platform to perform unobtrusive monitoring of users. In this work, we use common features of modern smartphones to build a human activity recognition (HAR) system for elderly care. We have built a classifier that detects the transport mode o...

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Main Author: Cardoso, Nuno (author)
Other Authors: Madureira, João (author), Pereira, Nuno (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/10069
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/10069
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Summary:Smartphones are everywhere, and they are a very attractive platform to perform unobtrusive monitoring of users. In this work, we use common features of modern smartphones to build a human activity recognition (HAR) system for elderly care. We have built a classifier that detects the transport mode of the user including whether an individual is inactive, walking, in bus, in car, in train or in metro. We evaluated our approach using over 24 hours of transportation data from a group of 15 individuals. Our tests show that our classifier can detect the transportation mode with over 90% accuracy.