Smartwatch-based activity recognition: A machine learning approach

Smartwatches and smartphones contain accelerometers and gyroscopes that sense a user's movements, and can help identify the activity a user is performing. Research into smartphone-based activity recognition has exploded over the past few years, but research into smartwatch-based activity recognition is still in its infancy. In this paper we compare smartwatch and smartphone-based activity recognition, and smartwatches are shown to be capable of...