Research Article
Where am I? Using Mobile Sensor Data to Predict a User’s Semantic Place with a Random Forest Algorithm
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_6, author={Elisabeth Lex and Oliver Pimas and J\o{}rg Simon and Viktoria Pammer-Schindler}, title={Where am I? Using Mobile Sensor Data to Predict a User’s Semantic Place with a Random Forest Algorithm}, proceedings={Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. 9th International Conference, MobiQuitous 2012, Beijing, China, December 12-14, 2012. Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS}, year={2013}, month={9}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_6} }- Elisabeth Lex
Oliver Pimas
Jörg Simon
Viktoria Pammer-Schindler
Year: 2013
Where am I? Using Mobile Sensor Data to Predict a User’s Semantic Place with a Random Forest Algorithm
MOBIQUITOUS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_6
Abstract
We use mobile sensor data to predict a mobile phone user’s semantic place, e.g. at home, at work, in a restaurant etc. Such information can be used to feed context-aware systems, that adapt for instance mobile phone settings like energy saving, connection to Internet, volume of ringtones etc. We consider the task of semantic place prediction as classification problem. In this paper we exploit five feature groups: (i) daily patterns, (ii) weekly patterns, (iii) WLAN information, (iv) battery charging state and (v) accelerometer data. We compare the performance of a Random Forest algorithm and two Support Vector Machines, one with an RBF kernel and one with a Pearson VII function based kernel, on a labelled dataset, and analyse the separate performances of the feature groups as well as promising combinations of feature groups. The winning combination of feature groups achieves an accuracy of 0.871 using a Random Forest algorithm on daily patterns and accelerometer data.