Keynote
Fahd Albinali, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the House_n Consortium at the MIT Department of Architecture. His research focuses on building and studying interactive technologies that are context-aware. Currently, he is working on building wearable systems that measure physical activity to address high value societal challenges such as preventive health care and support for aging and disabled populations. His work has been published in academic venues including UbiComp, AAAI, CHI and PerCom and has received one best paper award. Dr. Albinali received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2008 working on activity recognition in domestic environments, a M.Sc. from the University of Arizona in 2002, and a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo in 1999.
http://web.mit.edu/~albinali/
Real-Time Physical Activity Detection on Mobile Phones
Accurate, real-time measurement of energy expended during everyday activities would enable development of novel health monitoring and intervention technologies. The wockets project is building an open-source hardware and software system to measure physical activity type, duration, and intensity (for gene-environment interaction studies) on common mobile phones. There are many challenges to enabling 24/7/365 physical activity measurement. The system needs to be low-cost, power-efficient, easy to wear, accurate and robust. This talk will discuss some of the challenges and the solutions that we developed so far during an iterative design process of the system. I will demonstrate the current system in real-time during the presentation.