title: Discovering Activities to Recognize and Track in a Smart Environment.
abstract: The machine learning and pervasive sensing technologies found in smart homes offer unprecedented opportunities for providing health monitoring and assistance to individuals experiencing difficulties living independently at home. In order to monitor the functional health of smart home residents, we need to design technologies that recognize and track activities that people normally perform as part of their daily routines. Although approaches do exist for recognizing activities, the approaches are applied to activities that have been pre-selected and for which labeled training data is available. In contrast, we introduce an automated approach to activity tracking that identifies frequent activities that naturally occur in an individual's routine. With this capability we can then track the occurrence of regular activities to monitor functional health and to detect changes in an individual's patterns and lifestyle. In this paper we describe our activity mining and tracking approach and validate our algorithms on data collected in physical smart environments.
authors: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99163.
authors: Parisa
authors: P
authors: Rashidi
authors: Diane J
authors: DJ
authors: Cook
authors: Lawrence B
authors: LB
authors: Holder
authors: Maureen
authors: M
authors: Schmitter-Edgecombe
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