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FamilyPal: An effective system for detecting family activities based on smartphone

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Taking part in family activities plays an important role in establishing good relationships with family members. It can solve the loneliness of elders, which related not only to their physical health, but also to the well-being of the whole family. In the paper, we propose FamilyPal, an effective system for detecting family activities, which can help users establish good relationship with family members. Specifically, FamilyPal firstly uses smartphones built-in sensors, such as GPS, accelerometer, microphone, gyroscope, and Wi-Fi to obtain the motion and location of users, the surrounding voice, etc. Secondly, with the sensed data, we propose an effective method based on Gaussian Mixtures Models (GMM) to detect family activities, including occurrence of meal, cooking, TV viewing, conversations, in an unobtrusive manner. Thirdly, we select appropriate sensors for classification to improve smartphones battery life. FamilyPal has been implemented on the Android platform and evaluation of the system with 10 subjects over one week shows that FamilyPal can accurately classify family activities with the average precision of 71%, the average recall of 73% and the F-measure of 71.99%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages155-160
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538608371
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Nov 2017
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2017 - Emden, Germany
Duration: 24 Jul 201726 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2017

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2017
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityEmden
Period24/07/1726/07/17

Keywords

  • Family Activities
  • Gaussian Mixtures Models (GMM)
  • Mobile Sensing
  • Smartphones

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