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- research-articleApril 2023
Hierarchical Feature Recovery for Robust Human Activity Recognition in Body Sensor Networks
UbiComp/ISWC '22 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable ComputersPages 364–370https://doi.org/10.1145/3544793.3560392With the advances in Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) and textile-integrated sensing, more sensor data becomes available from which human activities are recognised. However, some sensors may become unavailable unexpectedly in practice. Previous work ...
- research-articleAugust 2020
Wavelet Based method for Non-Stationary Time Series Processing
CompSysTech '20: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Systems and TechnologiesPages 122–128https://doi.org/10.1145/3407982.3408008The new advanced information systems for measuring and processing electrocardiographic signals should offer high performance when works with the user devices. The report proposes a new method for determining time interval cardiac series that can be used ...
- research-articleMarch 2020
Auto-Key: Using Autoencoder to Speed Up Gait-based Key Generation in Body Area Networks
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 4, Issue 1Article No.: 32, Pages 1–23https://doi.org/10.1145/3381004With the rising popularity of wearable devices and sensors, shielding Body Area Networks (BANs) from eavesdroppers has become an urgent problem to solve. Since the conventional key distribution systems are too onerous for resource-constrained wearable ...
- articleApril 2016
Wireless Body Sensor Networks: Security, Privacy, and Energy Efficiency in the Era of Cloud Computing
International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare (IJRQEH), Volume 5, Issue 2Pages 1–30https://doi.org/10.4018/IJRQEH.2016040101In this paper, the authors provide a detailed overview and technical discussion and analysis of the latest research trends in securing body sensor networks. The core of this work aims at: 1 identifying the resource limitations and energy challenges of ...
- research-articleJanuary 2016
A low-complexity activity classification algorithm with optimized selection of accelerometric features
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE), Volume 8, Issue 6Pages 681–695https://doi.org/10.3233/AIS-160406Activity classification consists in detecting and classifying a sequence of activities, choosing from a limited set of known activities, by observing the outputs generated by (typically) inertial sensor devices placed over the body of a user. To this end, ...
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- ArticleDecember 2014
MPEG Media Transport (MMT) for 3D Tele-Immersion Systems
ISM '14: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on MultimediaPages 279–282https://doi.org/10.1109/ISM.2014.653D Tele-Immersion (3DTI) environments are a new medium for highly interactive and immersive means of collaborations through a shared virtual 3D environment. They have many applications in the areas of education, entertainment, sports training, tele-...
- articleOctober 2014
Personalized Monitors for Real-Time Detection of Physiological States
International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC-IGI), Volume 5, Issue 4Pages 1–19https://doi.org/10.4018/ijehmc.2014100101The authors introduce an algorithmic framework to process real-time physiological data using nonparametric Bayesian models under the context of developing and testing personalized wellness monitors. A wearable device aggregates signals from various ...
- articleJuly 2014
Beyond the Visual in Urban Interactive Interfaces: Dialogue and Social Transformation
- Ana Paula Baltazar dos Santos,
- José dos Santos Cabral Filho,
- Guilherme Ferreira de Arruda,
- Lorena Melgaço Silva Marques,
- Marcela Alves de Almeida
International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG-IGI), Volume 5, Issue 2Pages 1–15This paper discusses the hegemony of the visual and its pervasiveness in current urban installations and technological gadgets. It draws a distinction between functional and playful interactions, showing the prevalence of the former in the design of ...
- articleJuly 2014
Beyond the Visual in Urban Interactive Interfaces: Dialogue and Social Transformation
- Ana Paula Baltazar dos Santos,
- José dos Santos Cabral Filho,
- Guilherme Ferreira de Arruda,
- Lorena Melgaço Silva Marques,
- Marcela Alves de Almeida
International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG-IGI), Volume 5, Issue 2Pages 1–15This paper discusses the hegemony of the visual and its pervasiveness in current urban installations and technological gadgets. It draws a distinction between functional and playful interactions, showing the prevalence of the former in the design of ...
- articleJuly 2014
Beyond the Visual in Urban Interactive Interfaces: Dialogue and Social Transformation
- Ana Paula Baltazar dos Santos,
- José dos Santos Cabral Filho,
- Guilherme Ferreira de Arruda,
- Lorena Melgaço Silva Marques,
- Marcela Alves de Almeida
International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG-IGI), Volume 5, Issue 2Pages 1–15This paper discusses the hegemony of the visual and its pervasiveness in current urban installations and technological gadgets. It draws a distinction between functional and playful interactions, showing the prevalence of the former in the design of ...
- articleJune 2014
BodyCloud: A SaaS approach for community Body Sensor Networks
Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) have been recently introduced for the remote monitoring of human activities in a broad range of application domains, such as health care, emergency management, fitness and behavior surveillance. BSNs can be deployed in a ...
- ArticleAugust 2013
Study on Heartbeat Information Acquired from Pressure Cushion Based on Body Sensor Network
GREENCOM-ITHINGS-CPSCOM '13: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Internet of Things and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social ComputingPages 1103–1108https://doi.org/10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.190Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine have proved that heartbeat information has a close relationship with human's health and emotion. The feasibility of acquisition heartbeat information associated with emotion and health states based on ...
- ArticleMay 2012
Motion Reconstruction from Sparse Accelerometer Data Using PLSR
BSN '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Ninth International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor NetworksPages 178–183https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2012.28Detailed motion reconstruction is a prerequisite of biomotion analysis and physical function assessment for a variety of scenarios. For example, biomechanical analysis can be used to assess physical activity to diagnose pathological conditions, to ...
- ArticleMay 2012
Enhanced Classification of Abnormal Gait Using BSN and Depth
BSN '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Ninth International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor NetworksPages 166–171https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2012.26Changes in gait can be caused by a wide range of health complications. As deviations in gait may be an indicator of deteriorating health, abnormalities can be used as a surrogate measure for detecting the onset of certain symptoms. Previous studies have ...
- articleDecember 2011
Motion fault detection and isolation in Body Sensor Networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PAMC), Volume 7, Issue 6Pages 727–745https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.09.006Significant amount of research and development is being directed on monitoring activities of daily living of senior citizens who live alone as well as those who have certain motion disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. A combination of ...
- ArticleJuly 2011
Fall Detection with Wearable Sensors--Safe (Smart Fall Detection)
IE '11: Proceedings of the 2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent EnvironmentsPages 318–321https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2011.38The high rate of falls incidence among the elderly calls for the development of reliable and robust fall detection systems. A number of such systems have been proposed, with claims of fall detection accuracy of over 90% based on accelerometers and ...
- articleJuly 2011
Distributed authentication mechanism for secure channel establishment in ubiquitous medical sensor networks
In medical sensor networks, sensor nodes on a body of the patient sense the vital data and deliver them to the server system through mobile devices or gateways in the middle. However, when these linking devices do not function because of the battery ...
- ArticleMay 2011
An Assistive Body Sensor Network Glove for Speech- and Hearing-Impaired Disabilities
BSN '11: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Body Sensor NetworksPages 7–12https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2011.13This paper presents a hand-gesture based interface for facilitating communication among speech- and hearing-impaired disabilities. In the system, a wireless sensor glove equipped with five flex sensors and a 3D accelerometer is used as the input device. ...
- ArticleApril 2011
An Ultra Low Power Granular Decision Making Using Cross Correlation: Minimizing Signal Segments for Template Matching
ICCPS '11: Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/ACM Second International Conference on Cyber-Physical SystemsPages 77–86https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCPS.2011.26Wearable sensor platforms have proved effective in a large variety of new application domains including wellness and healthcare, and are perfect examples of cyber physical systems. A major obstacle in realization of these systems is the amount of energy ...
- ArticleApril 2011
Ultra Low Power Granular Decision Making Using Cross Correlation: Optimizing Bit Resolution for Template Matching
RTAS '11: Proceedings of the 2011 17th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications SymposiumPages 137–146https://doi.org/10.1109/RTAS.2011.21Advances in technology have led to development of wearable sensing, computing and communication devices that can be woven into the physical environment of our daily lives, enabling a large variety of new applications in several domains including ...