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Computer Science - University of Manitoba

Anuradha’s research will focus on using information obtained from various sensor data through activity recognition for establishing and improving healthy habits in individuals.. He aims to enhance the effectiveness of in-situ self-tracking by sensory and visual feedback conveyed via smart wearables by using various analytical techniques to conduct an in-depth analysis of the obtained self-tracking information and introduce new persuasive techniques to encourage personal changes in order to improve the long term well-being.

  • Grace SeoJuly 15, 2021 at 6:38 am

    Hi Anuradha,

    Awesome project, and healthy-eating is indeed difficult task for many people!

    I am wondering once system is successfully launched, do you have any plans to extend this system for use in non-smartphone devices for people who doesn’t use or can’t afford to use smartphone/smartwatch/earbuds type devices?

    If there was no such thing as smartphone/smartwatch/earbuds type devices, do you think there would be any other devices that would be as useful to implement your system?

    • Anuradha HerathJuly 15, 2021 at 3:34 pm

      Hi Grace,
      Thanks for the question.

      In theory, once the system is launched it can be used with any device which has the necessary components like accelerometer, gyrometer, vibration motor (for feedback), etc. (as mentioned in the video I’m currently using a ring for my study). But in practice the data you can obtain from the device will be dependent on the part of the body where the device is placed (e.g.: watch on the wrist, ring on the finger, earbuds on ear, etc.) and since the nature of this data will be varying from one part to another (i.e.: hand based data from sensors on the hand, chewing based data from sensors around the head, etc.) additional training with data from the new device will be necessary for the correct functionality of the system.

      Hope this answers your question.

  • Anuradha HerathJuly 15, 2021 at 3:45 pm

    Hi Grace,
    Thanks for the Question.

    In theory, Once the system is up and running it should work on any device with the necessary sensors. i.e.: accelormeter, gyrometer for sensing, vibration motor for feedback, etc. (As mentioned in the video I’m currently using a ring for my study). But in practice since the nature of the data obtained from the device depends on the placement of the device on the body (hand motion from smartwatch, jaw motion from earbud, etc. ), an additional training step with data from the new device will be necessary for the correct functionality of the system.

    Hope this answers your questions.

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