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Improving the accuracy of wearable activity classifiers

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UbiComp/ISWC'15 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

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Providing context awareness in wearables helps the user be more efficient in his tasks while being interrupted by the wearable device only when it is needed. In this work, we focus on one important aspect of context awareness in wearables which is activity classification. First, a wearable activity classifier is improved and applied to a medical application. Afterwards, more techniques are proposed that can be used to improve the results' accuracy of any activity classifier. Future research aims to incorporate more context awareness domains that can interact with and help wearable activity classifiers.

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https://doi.org/10.3390/s19081904

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ISBN:9781450335751

DOI:10.1145/2800835

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Lancaster University, UK
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Cornell University
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Univerisity of Tokyo, JP

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J. P. Amorim VC. Silva MA. R. Oliveira R(2019)Software and Hardware Requirements and Trade-Offs in Operating Systems for Wearables: A Tool to Improve Devices’ PerformanceSensors10.3390/s1908190419:8(1904)Online publication date: 22-Apr-2019
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