Increased life expectancy coupled with declining birth rates is leading to an aging
population structure. Aging-caused changes, such as physical or cognitive decline, could …

The ubiquity of smartphones and the growth of computing resources, such as connectivity,
processing, portability, and power of sensing, have greatly changed people's lives. Today …

The widespread presence of motion sensors on users' personal mobile devices has
spawned a growing research interest in human activity recognition (HAR). However, when …

Physical activity recognition using embedded sensors has enabled many context-aware
applications in different areas, such as healthcare. Initially, one or more dedicated wearable …

Since the advent of personal computing devices, intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) have
been one of the key technologies that researchers and engineers have focused on, aiming …

Understanding the state, behavior, and surrounding context of construction workers is
essential to effective project management and control. Exploiting the integrated sensors of …

Because the number of elderly people is predicted to increase quickly in the upcoming
years,“aging in place”(which refers to living at home regardless of age and other factors) is …

Construction jobs are more labor-intensive compared to other industries. As such,
construction workers are often required to exceed their natural physical capability to cope …

In recent years, human activity recognition has become a hot topic inside the scientific
community. The reason to be under the spotlight is its direct application in multiple domains …

In his book “How Our Days Became Numbered” historian Dan Bouk looks into how life
insurers started to predict people's lives and their relative risk of death at the end of the …