Towards reading trackers in the wild: Detecting reading activities by EOG glasses and deep neural networks

Shoya Ishimaru, Kensuke Hoshika, Koichi Kise, Andreas Dengel, Kai Kunze

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Abstract

Reading in real life occurs in a variety of settings. One may read while commuting to work, waiting in a queue or lying on the sofa relaxing. However, most of current activity recognition work focuses on reading in fully controlled experiments. This paper proposes reading detection algorithms that consider such natural readings. The key idea is to record a large amount of data including natural reading habits in real life (more than 980 hours from 7 participants) with commercial electrooculography (EOG) glasses and to use them for deep learning. Our proposed approaches classified controlled reading vs. not reading with 92.2% accuracy on a user-dependent training. However, the classification accuracy decreases to 73.8% on natural reading vs. not reading. The results indicate that there is a strong gap between controlled reading and natural reading, highlighting the need for more robust reading detection algorithms. Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiComp/ISWC 2017 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages704-711
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450351904
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Sept 11
Event2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2017 - Maui, United States
Duration: 2017 Sept 112017 Sept 15

Publication series

NameUbiComp/ISWC 2017 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Other

Other2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMaui
Period17/9/1117/9/15

Keywords

  • Convolutional neural network
  • Electrooculography
  • Eye movement
  • Quantified self
  • Reading
  • Recurrent neural network

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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