ACTIVITY-BASED COMPUTING
Activity recognition is a fertile research area with many unanswered
questions. How should activities be specified? How many activities can systems
robustly detect? How can we harness activity-aware systems to help in diverse
application domains such as healthcare?
Issue Highlights
From the Editor in Chief
"You Are
Your Cell Phone" (pdf)
Learn how your mobile device is becoming a proxy for you and your activities,
improving your effectiveness while on the go.
New Products
"A
pervasive personal trainer, an electronic leash, a light canvas…"
(pdf)
This installment covers several new devices, most of which are used during
activities—a pervasive personal trainer, a Wi-Fi-enabled SD card for easy
photo uploading, a new 99-quid laptop focused on the education market, an
electronic leash for wandering children, and a new artist medium for reducing
stress in a hospital waiting room.
Guest Editors' Introduction
"Activity-Based
Computing" (pdf)
The articles in this special issue focus on context-aware systems designed to
recognize activities. They present underlying technologies for developing
activity-aware systems and report on experiences with activity recognition in
real-world applications.
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