Free-living Ambulatory Activity Classification: A Comparative Analysis of Wrist-worn, Insole-embedded, and Phone-embedded Sensors

Ton T.H. Duong, Leo Musacchia, David Uher, Jacqueline Montes, Damiano Zanotto

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Abstract

Wrist-worn and smartphone-embedded inertial sensors are among the most widely used sensing modalities for activity classification. Insoles instrumented with inertial and force sensors have also become available to researchers and the general public. However, little is known about how classification accuracy is affected by the combination of these three sensing modalities. This study compares the performances of 7 activity classification models, each relying on a combination of 3, 2, or a single sensing modality, under unstructured and free-living conditions. In each model, a genetic algorithm was applied for optimal feature selection, and multi-session leave-one-out cross-validation was used to evaluate model performance. Results for the unstructured condition indicated that the insole-embedded sensors can classify six common ambulatory activities with at least 95% accuracy when used alone or in combination with any of the other sensing modalities. In free-living conditions, sensor combinations that included the insole-embedded sensors demonstrated high levels of agreement with a silver-standard activity tracker. These results provide new insights into the feasibility of using instrumented insoles in combination with phone-embedded or wrist-worn sensors to enhance the accuracy of conventional methods for ambulatory activity classification.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBioRob 2022 - 9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
ISBN (Electronic)9781665458498
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2022 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 21 Aug 202224 Aug 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
Volume2022-August
ISSN (Print)2155-1774

Conference

Conference9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2022
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period21/08/2224/08/22

Keywords

  • Ambulatory Activity Recognition
  • Instrumented Insoles
  • Machine Learning Inference
  • Wearable Technology

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