Freezing of gait (FOG) is a serious gait disturbance, common in mid-and late-stage
Parkinson's disease, that affects mobility and increases fall risk. Wearable sensors have …

The proliferation of smartphones has significantly facilitated people's daily life, and diverse
and powerful embedded sensors make smartphone a ubiquitous platform to acquire and …

Physical-activity recognition via wearable sensors can provide valuable information
regarding an individual's degree of functional ability and lifestyle. In this paper, we present …

Falls represent a major public health risk worldwide for the elderly people. A fall not assisted
in time can cause functional impairment in an elderly and a significant decrease in his …

Nowadays many people use smartphones with built-in accelerometers which makes these
smartphones capable of recognizing daily activities. However, mobile phones are carried …

Although human activity recognition (HAR) has been studied extensively in the past decade,
HAR on smartphones is a relatively new area. Smartphones are equipped with a variety of …

Hand motion tracking and gesture recognition are a fundamental technology in the field of
proactive computing for a better human computer interaction system. In this paper, we have …

In this paper, a novel approach for recognition of walking activities and gait events with
wearable sensors is presented. This approach, called adaptive Bayesian inference system …

Smartphone-based activity recognition (SP-AR) recognizes users' activities using the
embedded accelerometer sensor. Only a small number of previous works can be classified …

This paper investigates two major issues in using a tri-axial accelerometer-embedded
mobile phone for continuous activity monitoring, ie the difference in orientations and …