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Activity recognition has become a key issue in smart home environments. The problem involves learning high level activities from low level sensor data. Activity recognition can depend on several variables; one such variable is duration of engagement with sensorised items or duration of intervals between sensor activations that can provide useful information about personal behaviour. In this paper a probabilistic learning algorithm is proposed that incorporates episode, time and duration information to determine inhabitant identity and the activity being undertaken from low level sensor data. Our results verify that incorporating duration information consistently improves the accuracy.
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Chaurasia, P., Scotney, B., McClean, S., Zhang, S., Nugent, C. (2010). Incorporating Duration Information in Activity Recognition. In: Bi, Y., Williams, MA. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15280-1_24
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