HASCA 2013 - International Workshop on Human Activity Sensing Corpus and its Application

International Workshop on Human Activity Sensing Corpus and its Application
Organizers: Nobuo Kawaguchi, Nobuhiko Nishio, Daniel Roggen, Kaori Fujinami, Susanna Pirttikangas
Workshop website: http://hasca2013.hasc.jp/
Recent advancement of technology enables installations of small sized accelerometers or gyroscopes on various kinds of wearable/portable information devices. By using such wearable sensors, these devices can estimate its posture or status. However, most of current devices only utilize these sensors for simple orientation and gesture recognition. More deep understandings and recognition of human activity through these sensors will enable the next-generation human-oriented computing. To enable the real-world application by these kinds of wearable sensors, a large scale human activity corpus might play an important role. Additionally, we have now a lot of high-performance mobile devices in real-world such as smart-phones. It is a great challenge to utilize such enormous number of wearable sensors to collect large-scale activity corpus. In recent years, there are several on-going projects which are collecting human activities. In this workshop, we are planning to share these experiences of current research on human activity corpus and its applications among the researchers and the practitioners and to have a deep discussion for future of activity sensing.