TY - GEN
T1 - Activity recognition and nutrition monitoring in every day situations with a textile capacitive neckband
AU - Cheng, Jingyuan
AU - Wille, Sebastian
AU - Zhou, Bo
AU - When, Norbert
AU - Kunze, Kai
AU - Weppner, Jens
AU - Rheinländer, Carl Christian
AU - Lukowicz, Paul
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We build on previous work [5] that demonstrated, in simple isolated experiments, how head and neck related events (e.g. swallowing, head motion) can be detected using an unobtrusive, textile capacitive sensor integrated in a collar like neckband. We have now developed a 2nd generation that allows long term recording in real life environments in conjunction with a low power Bluetooth enabled smart phone. It allows the system to move from the detection of individual swallows which is too unreliable for practical applications to an analysis of the statistical distribution of swallow frequency. Such an analysis allows the detection of "nutrition events" such as having lunch or breakfast. It also allows us to see the general level of activity and distinguish between just being absolutely quiet (no motion) and sleeping. The neckband can be useful in a variety of applications such as cognitive disease monitoring and elderly care.
AB - We build on previous work [5] that demonstrated, in simple isolated experiments, how head and neck related events (e.g. swallowing, head motion) can be detected using an unobtrusive, textile capacitive sensor integrated in a collar like neckband. We have now developed a 2nd generation that allows long term recording in real life environments in conjunction with a low power Bluetooth enabled smart phone. It allows the system to move from the detection of individual swallows which is too unreliable for practical applications to an analysis of the statistical distribution of swallow frequency. Such an analysis allows the detection of "nutrition events" such as having lunch or breakfast. It also allows us to see the general level of activity and distinguish between just being absolutely quiet (no motion) and sleeping. The neckband can be useful in a variety of applications such as cognitive disease monitoring and elderly care.
KW - Activity recognition
KW - Capacitive sensing
KW - Nutrition monitoring
KW - Wearable computing
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U2 - 10.1145/2494091.2494143
DO - 10.1145/2494091.2494143
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885233466
SN - 9781450322157
T3 - UbiComp 2013 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 2013 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
SP - 155
EP - 158
BT - UbiComp 2013 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 2013 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
T2 - 2013 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2013
Y2 - 8 September 2013 through 12 September 2013
ER -