scholarly journals Classification of Activities of Daily living using Smart Phones

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2984-2988

Smart phones have become an integral part of everyday human life. These phones are packed with various sensors for different purposes. Most of them are used for understanding the environment in which the user uses the phone so that the device could respond rapidly. Indirectly the phone extracts context information of the users like the activity performed using accelerometer and gyroscope sensors. This information can be used for a variety of applications like home automation, smart environment, etc to perform automatic changes to the environment without direct input from the user. This paper deals with the classification of activities of daily living like walking, jogging, sitting, standing, upstairs and downstairs using the data collected from accelerometer sensor within the smart phone. A comparative analysis has been performed on different machine learning techniques for activity classification.

Author(s):  
Lee-Nam Kwon ◽  
Dong-Hun Yang ◽  
Myung-Gwon Hwang ◽  
Soo-Jin Lim ◽  
Young-Kuk Kim ◽  
...  

With the global trend toward an aging population, the increasing number of dementia patients and elderly living alone has emerged as a serious social issue in South Korea. The assessment of activities of daily living (ADL) is essential for diagnosing dementia. However, since the assessment is based on the ADL questionnaire, it relies on subjective judgment and lacks objectivity. Seven healthy seniors and six with early-stage dementia participated in the study to obtain ADL data. The derived ADL features were generated by smart home sensors. Statistical methods and machine learning techniques were employed to develop a model for auto-classifying the normal controls and early-stage dementia patients. The proposed approach verified the developed model as an objective ADL evaluation tool for the diagnosis of dementia. A random forest algorithm was used to compare a personalized model and a non-personalized model. The comparison result verified that the accuracy (91.20%) of the personalized model was higher than that (84.54%) of the non-personalized model. This indicates that the cognitive ability-based personalization showed encouraging performance in the classification of normal control and early-stage dementia and it is expected that the findings of this study will serve as important basic data for the objective diagnosis of dementia.


Author(s):  
Padmavathi .S ◽  
M. Chidambaram

Text classification has grown into more significant in managing and organizing the text data due to tremendous growth of online information. It does classification of documents in to fixed number of predefined categories. Rule based approach and Machine learning approach are the two ways of text classification. In rule based approach, classification of documents is done based on manually defined rules. In Machine learning based approach, classification rules or classifier are defined automatically using example documents. It has higher recall and quick process. This paper shows an investigation on text classification utilizing different machine learning techniques.


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