JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

Background:

The accuracy of movement determination software of currently available activity trackers is not only insufficient for scientific applications, but also not open source. We developed an accurate, open-source, smartphone-based activity tracking toolbox, consisting of an Android app and two different deep learning algorithms adaptable to new behaviors.

Objective:

To offer an open source, adaptable machine learning toolbox for movement recognition, which can bes trained to specific needs and can yield repeatable results across multiple studies. The main focus lies on comprehensibility and traceability of the classification, which is not provided by the most widely used software.

Methods:

Using a semi-supervised deep learning approach, we identify different classes of activity, based on accelerometry and gyroscopy data, based on own and open-competition data.

Results:

With robustness against variation in sampling rate and sensor dimensional input, we achieved ~87% accuracy in classifying 6 different behaviors on own data and MotionSense Data. Tested on own data, the accuracy drops to 26%, which shows superiority of our own algorithm.

Conclusions:

Human Activity Recorder is a versatile, retrainable toolbox, open-source available and accurate, which is tested on new data continually, enables researchers to adapt to the behavior measured and achieve repeatability in science.