Reference   

E. Munguia Tapia, S. S. Intille, W. Haskell, K. Larson, J. Wright, A. King, and R. Friedman, "Real-time recognition of physical activities and their intensities using wireless accelerometers and a heart rate monitor " in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers: IEEE Press, 2007.
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Abstract 

In this paper, we present a real-time algorithm for automatic recognition of not only physical activities, but also, in some cases, their intensities, using five triaxial wireless accelerometers and a wireless heart rate monitor. The algorithm has been evaluated using datasets consisting of 30 physical gymnasium activities collected from a total of 21 people at two different labs. On these activities, we have obtained a recognition accuracy performance of 94.6% using subject-dependent training and 56.3% using subject-independent training. The addition of heart rate data improves subject-dependent recognition accuracy only by 1.2% and subject-independent recognition only by 2.1%. When recognizing activity type without differentiating intensity levels, we obtain a subject-independent performance of 80.6%. We discuss why heart rate data has such little discriminatory power.

Keywords 

Accelerometer, activity recognition, mobile computing, physical activity, exercise.

Acknowledgements

This work was funded by NIH R21 grant CA106745-02 and the MIT House_n Consortium. The sensors used in the work were developed with support from NSF grant #0313065.