NDLI: Activity recognition and nutrition monitoring in every day situations with a textile capacitive neckband

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Rheinländer, Carl Christian Cheng, Jingyuan Weppner, Jens Lukowicz, Paul Zhou, Bo Kunze, Kai Wille, Sebastian Wehn, Norbert
Abstract	We build on previous work [5] that demonstrated, in simple isolated experiments, how head and neck related events (e.g. swallowing, head motion) can be detected using an unobtrusive, textile capacitive sensor integrated in a collar like neckband. We have now developed a 2nd generation that allows long term recording in real life environments in conjunction with a low power Bluetooth enabled smart phone. It allows the system to move from the detection of individual swallows which is too unreliable for practical applications to an analysis of the statistical distribution of swallow frequency. Such an analysis allows the detection of "nutrition events" such as having lunch or breakfast. It also allows us to see the general level of activity and distinguish between just being absolutely quiet (no motion) and sleeping. The neckband can be useful in a variety of applications such as cognitive disease monitoring and elderly care.
Starting Page	155
Ending Page	158
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450322157
DOI	10.1145/2494091.2494143
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2013-09-08
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Nutrition monitoring Activity recognition Wearable computing Capacitive sensing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Activity recognition and nutrition monitoring in every day situations with a textile capacitive neckband