Title :
A ubiquitous activity-monitor to prevent sedentariness
Author :
Iglesias, Josué ; Cano, JesÙs ; Bernardos, Ana M. ; Casar, José R.
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ. of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
The Activity Monitor described in this paper is an easy-to-configure context-aware mobile application, capable of estimating and evaluating the user´s activity all day long. It relies on fusion strategies for movement and location estimation, which combine acceleration and radio data from in-device and external sensors. The final objective of the Activity Monitor is to deliver adequate context-aware notifications in order to make the user aware of his level of activity. The reasoning process to decide when and how to deliver notifications is fully done in the mobile device by using an embedded reasoner, avoiding privacy issues related to personal sensitive data sharing.
Keywords :
data privacy; inference mechanisms; medical computing; mobile computing; sensor fusion; context-aware mobile application; context-aware notifications; embedded reasoner; fusion strategy; personal sensitive data sharing; privacy issues; reasoning process; sedentariness prevention; ubiquitous activity monitor; Accelerometers; Cognition; Legged locomotion; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Sensors; Persuasive technology; activity inference; context-aware mobile applications; mobile middleware; preventive healthcare;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-938-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-61284-936-2
DOI :
10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766894
