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. 2014 Apr 9;14(4):6474–6499. doi: 10.3390/s140406474

Table 3.

Studies that use the sliding window approach (Part 2).

Publication (Number of Subjects) Activities (Number of Activities) Accelerometer Placements (Number of Accelerometers) Inter-Subject Classification Accuracy Window Sizes (in seconds)
Khan et al. (2010) (6 subjects) [53] Walking, upstairs, downstairs, running, sitting (5) Smartphone in 5 different pocket locations (shirt's top, jeans' rear/front-left/front-right, coat's inner) (1) ANN-OF (46%) ANN-LDA (60%) ANN-KDA (96%) 2
Marx (2010) (1 subject) [31] Ball interactions (throwing, shaking, jerking sideways, holding very still) (4) Embedded in iBall (1) Heuristic (90%–95%) 0.666
Sun et al. (2010) (7 subjects) [54] Walking, running, stationary, upstairs, downstairs, driving, bicycling (7) Front/rear pockets on the trousers, front pockets on the coat (6) SVM (93% with acceleration magnitude in 4 s; 92% without acceleration magnitude in 5 s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Atallah et al. (2011) (11 subjects) [55] Reading, socializing, vacuuming and more (15) Chest, arm, wrist, waist, knee, ankle, right ear (7) kNN with k = 5 (∼56%) and k = 7 (∼64%), NB with Gaussian priors (∼61%) 5
Gjoreski and Gams (2011) (11 subjects) [56] Standing, sitting, lying, sitting on the ground, on all fours, going down, standing up (7) Chest, left thigh, right ankle (3) Random Forest (93% only with chest; 96% adding left thigh; 98% with all accelerometers) 1
Jiang et al. (2011) (10 subjects) [57] Walking, jogging, weight lifting, cycling, rowing and more (10) Both forearms and shanks (4) SVM ideal (95.1%) SVM with errors (75.2%) SVM without orientation errors (91.2%) SVM without errors (91.9%) 6.4
Kwapisz et al. (2011) (29 subjects) [58] Walking, jogging, upstairs, downstairs and more (6) Smartphone (1) DT (85.1%) LR (78.1%) MLP (91.7%) 10
Lee and Cho (2011) (3 subjects) [59] 3 actions (walking, standing, climbing stairs) + 3 activities (shopping, moving by walk, taking bus) Smartphone in the hand (1) HHMM (84%) HMM (65%) ANN (65%) 5
Siirtola and Röning (2012) (8 subjects) [60] Walking, running, cycling, sitting/standing, driving a car (5) Smartphone in trousers' front pocket (1) Offline (QDA (95.4%) kNN (94.5%)) Real-Time with Nokia (QDA (95.8%) kNN (93.9%)) Real-time with Samsung Galaxy (QDA (96.5%)) 7.5
Wang et al. (2012) (8 subjects) [61] Walking, jogging, upstairs, downstairs (4) Smartphone (1) GMM (91.2%) J48 (88.8%) LR (93.3%) 0.5, 0.8
Hemalatha and Vaidehi (2013) (5 subjects) [62] Walking, sitting/standing, lying, falling (4) Chest (1) FBPAC (92%) 10
Mannini et al. (2013) (33 subjects) [26] 4 broad activity classes (ambulation, cycling, sedentary and other), daily activities (26) Wrist or ankle (1) SVM (84.7% with wrist, 95% with ankle) for 12.8 s 2, 4, 12.8
Nam and Park (2013) (3 subjects) [63] Walking, toddling, crawling, wiggling, rolling and more (11) Waist (1) NB (81%) BN (87%) DT (75%) SVM (95%) kNN (96.2%) J48 (94.7%) MLP (96.3%) LR (93.2%) ∼2.7
Nam and Park (2013) (11 subjects) [64] Walking, toddling, crawling, wiggling, rolling and more (10) Waist (1) NB (73%) BN (84.8%) DT (74%) SVM (86.2%) kNN (84.1%) J48 (88.3%) MLP (84.8%) LR (86.9%) ∼2.7
Zheng et al. (2013) (18/53/7 subjects) [65] 3 datasets: Walking, running, dancing and more (7) in 1st & 2nd / Walking, jogging, skipping and more (6) in 3rd Wrist (1 in 1st) Hip (1 in 2nd) Waist pocket (1 in 3rd) SWEM-SVM (94%/90%/82%) SVM (93%/89%/79%) ANN (91%/78%/74%) 10