Using Smartwatch Inertial Sensors to Recognize and Distinguish Between Car Drivers and Passengers

Thomas Cano Hald; David Holmgaard Junker; Mads Mårtensson; Mikael Skov; Dimitrios Raptis

doi:10.1145/3239060.3239068

Using Smartwatch Inertial Sensors to Recognize and Distinguish Between Car Drivers and Passengers

Thomas Cano Hald, David Holmgaard Junker, Mads Mårtensson, Mikael Skov, Dimitrios Raptis

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Abstract

People increasingly interact with social media or other apps on their smartphones while driving car. This is naturally a major safety concern, and it remains unclear how to avoid or limit such interaction. We investigate this problem through human activity recognition (HAR) where we developed a system called IRIS, which collects smartwatch accelerometer data and analyses the data through machine learning and predicts if the data origins from a driver or a passenger. We report from a field experiment with 24 participants acting as drivers or passengers where we achieved an overall prediction accuracy of 87%. We further found that various road segments had less effect on the accuracy than anticipated, but we also found that passenger tasks had a negative effect on recognition accuracy. We discuss several implications from findings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
Number of pages	11
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	23 Sept 2018
Pages	74-84
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5946-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3239060.3239068
Publication status	Published - 23 Sept 2018
Event	10th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces - Toronto, Canada Duration: 23 Sept 2018 → 25 Sept 2018

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Conference	10th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	23/09/2018 → 25/09/2018

Keywords

Accelerometer data
Driving
Human activity recognition
Sensor data
Smartwatch

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Cano Hald, T., Junker, D. H., Mårtensson, M., Skov, M., & Raptis, D. (2018). Using Smartwatch Inertial Sensors to Recognize and Distinguish Between Car Drivers and Passengers. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (pp. 74-84). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3239060.3239068

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Cano Hald, T, Junker, DH, Mårtensson, M, Skov, M & Raptis, D 2018, Using Smartwatch Inertial Sensors to Recognize and Distinguish Between Car Drivers and Passengers. in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 74-84, 10th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces, Toronto, Canada, 23/09/2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3239060.3239068

Using Smartwatch Inertial Sensors to Recognize and Distinguish Between Car Drivers and Passengers. / Cano Hald, Thomas; Junker, David Holmgaard; Mårtensson, Mads et al.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 74-84.

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