With increasingly powerful mobile devices, user context information can be derived from a
variety of sensing components embedded inside, such as accelerometer, GPS, microphone …

Technology offers the potential to objectively monitor people's eating and activity behaviors
and encourage healthier lifestyles. BALANCE is a mobile phone-based system for long term …

Mobile devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated and the latest generation of smart
cell phones now incorporates many diverse and powerful sensors. These sensors include …

Smart consumer devices are omnipresent in our everyday lives. We find novel interesting
applications of smart devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches and …

Activity-aware systems have inspired novel user interfaces and new applications in smart
environments, surveillance, emergency response, and military missions. Systems that …

Smartphones are ubiquitous and becoming more and more sophisticated, with ever-growing
computing, networking and sensing powers. How can we help the users form a healthy habit …

This paper presents a smartphone based portable activity recognition system to record and
recognize daily activity patterns of users. This system can assist patients and any individual …

On a growing scale, we use mobile phones for diverse activities in our daily life, for example
for entertainment, information or education purposes. In our present research, we assess the …

Mobile applications for activity monitoring are regarded as a high potential field for efficient
improvement of health care solutions. The measurement of physical activity within every-day …

In this book chapter, we present a novel system that recognizes and records the physical
activity of a person using a mobile phone. The sensor data is collected by built-in …