"Contextual Activity Tracking Using Raw Sensor Data"
Dec 28, 2023 - 8:16amSummary: The speaker is exploring the idea of having a watch that can automatically track their activities such as surfing, climbing, and going to the gym based on their location. They are interested in whether this data can be gathered from the raw sensors and inferred later on, rather than in real time. They mention that GPS location and time while driving can provide a sense of what is happening and suggest that phone activity and location only need to be recorded at specific intervals, expressing a desire for their phone to be able to infer context and understand the relationships between different activities based on these data points.Transcript: One of the things that I'm thinking about is the ability to... This is, again, context. Like, what would it be like to be able to have a watch that just understands that I went surfing, or that I went climbing, or that I'm going to the gym. I guess one of the things in my world that's easy is place plays a massive role in those things. You know, if I've not explicitly told the computer, like, if I go to SWAMI's and then I'm not near my phone for an hour, likely the case is that I went surfing. One of the things that I'm curious about is, like, can all of that data be gathered like from the raw sensors and then inferred later on? It actually doesn't need to be inferred in real time. Real time would be great. So, yeah, something to think about. I definitely want to think about... Yeah, I don't know. Even something like driving, like GPS location and time gives you a lot of a sense of what is happening. And some of me is like, okay, well, my phone, when my phone is active, I only really need my GPS location to be recorded, like, you know, every five minutes, honestly, plenty. I mean, every minute would be fantastic. But even then, there's different granularities. So, so, even regardless of that, yeah, having my phone be able to infer context seems really important to me. To be able to understand the relations between different things. So,
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