The Case for Smartwatch-based Diet Monitoring

• Main Authors: SEN, Sougata, SUBBARAJU, Vigneshwaran, MISRA, Archan, BALAN, Rajesh Krishna, LEE, Youngki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Automated analysis; Bare-hand; Off-line analysis; Small scale; User study; Wearable computers; Gesture recognition; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2677; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3677/viewcontent/2015_Sougata_Sen_Smartwatch_Diet_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We explore the use of gesture recognition on a wrist-worn smartwatch as an enabler of an automated eating activity (and diet monitoring) system. We show, using small-scale user studies, how it is possible to use the accelerometer and gyroscope data from a smartwatch to accurately separate eating epi...