Can Smartwatches Replace Smartphones for Posture Tracking?

Sensors

Hector G. Flores-Rodriguez¹  Jun Yu Jacinta Cai²  Majid Sarrafzadeh³  Bobak Mortazavi³  Ebrahim Nemati⁴  Kristina VanderWall⁵  Jessica Lucier⁵  Arash Naeim⁵ 

[1] Computer Science Department, El Camino College, Torrance, CA 90506, USA;Computer Science Department, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA;Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA;Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA;School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA;

关键词: activity recognition;    smartwatch;    posture tracking;    wireless health;    machine learning;    embedded medical systems;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s151026783

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper introduces a human posture tracking platform to identify the human postures of sitting, standing or lying down, based on a smartwatch. This work develops such a system as a proof-of-concept study to investigate a smartwatch’s ability to be used in future remote health monitoring systems and applications. This work validates the smartwatches’ ability to track the posture of users accurately in a laboratory setting while reducing the sampling rate to potentially improve battery life, the first steps in verifying that such a system would work in future clinical settings. The algorithm developed classifies the transitions between three posture states of sitting, standing and lying down, by identifying these transition movements, as well as other movements that might be mistaken for these transitions. The system is trained and developed on a Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, and the algorithm was validated through a leave-one-subject-out cross-validation of 20 subjects. The system can identify the appropriate transitions at only 10 Hz with an F-score of 0.930, indicating its ability to effectively replace smart phones, if needed.

【 授权许可】

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