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Physical Human Activity Recognition Using Wearable Sensors

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 2920

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Department of Engineering, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
Interests: smart sensors; sensing technology; wireless sensor networks; Internet of Things; healthcare and environmental monitoring
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Special Issue Information

Human activity recognition (HAR) is dependent on wearable sensor information, and has been an alluring exploration subject because of its application across various entities. Numerous research works have considered HAR outcomes using smart wearable sensing systems. The inescapability and scope of capacities of today’s smart systems have empowered a wide range of versatile applications that are changing our day to day lives, using portable sensors that get physiological information. HAR systems using wearable sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) methods can realize the well-being checking of humans in real-time under varied conditions.  

Authors are invited to submit articles on how to design and implement HAR systems covering the hypothesis, basics, and utilizations of HAR systems. The creators aim to emphasize how AI and HAR devices help to decide on an apt system given a specific timeframe. The investigations should consider significant issues that lead to balanced outcomes, making it easy to evaluate the nature of sensor-based human action, forecasting an immediate correlation of past works to avoid abnormal events. The investigation should handle fundamental issues that bargain the comprehension of the presentation of human action acknowledgment dependent on wearable sensor information.

Prof. Dr. Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay
Prof. Dr. Nagender Kumar Suryadevara
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Keywords

  • Wearable sensors
  • Human activity recognition
  • Wearable sensor data
  • Pervasive computing
  • Human-centric sensing
  • Machine learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Context awareness
  • Image motion analysis
  • Deep learning
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Mobile computing
  • Wearable computers
  • Smart home
  • Smart environment
  • Cloud computing

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On the Impact of Biceps Muscle Fatigue in Human Activity Recognition
by Mohamed Elshafei, Diego Elias Costa and Emad Shihab
Sensors 2021, 21(4), 1070; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21041070 - 04 Feb 2021
Cited by 8 | Viewed by 2264
Abstract
Nowadays, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems, which use wearables and smart systems, are a part of our daily life. Despite the abundance of literature in the area, little is known about the impact of muscle fatigue on these systems’ performance. In this work, [...] Read more.
Nowadays, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems, which use wearables and smart systems, are a part of our daily life. Despite the abundance of literature in the area, little is known about the impact of muscle fatigue on these systems’ performance. In this work, we use the biceps concentration curls exercise as an example of a HAR activity to observe the impact of fatigue impact on such systems. Our dataset consists of 3000 biceps concentration curls performed and collected from 20 volunteers aged between 20–35. Our findings indicate that fatigue often occurs in later sets of an exercise and extends the completion time of later sets by up to 31% and decreases muscular endurance by 4.1%. Another finding shows that changes in data patterns are often occurring during fatigue presence, causing seven features to become statistically insignificant. Further findings indicate that fatigue can cause a substantial decrease in performance in both subject-specific and cross-subject models. Finally, we observed that a Feedforward Neural Network (FNN) showed the best performance in both cross-subject and subject-specific models in all our evaluations. Full article
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