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

fYear

2011

fDate

21-25 March 2011

Firstpage

319

Lastpage

321

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766894

Filename

5766894