Dartmouth College
Xia Zhou, an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, and her colleagues have significantly improved their innovative light-sensing system that tracks a person’s behavior continuously and unobtrusively in real time.
Using the power of the light around us, Dartmouth College researchers have significantly improved their innovative light-sensing system that tracks a person’s behavior continuously and unobtrusively in real time.
The new StarLight system has a wide range of practical applications, including virtual reality without on-body controllers and non-invasive real-time health monitoring. The new system advances the researchers’ prior LiSense design by dramatically reducing the number of intrusive sensors, overcoming furniture blockage and supporting user mobility.
The results will be presented June 27 at the ACM MobiSys 2016, the 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. A PDF is available on request.
The researchers studied the use of purely ubiquitous light around us to track users’ behavior, without any cameras, on-body devices or electromagnetic interference. They were able to reconstruct a user 3D skeleton by leveraging the light emitted from LED panels on the ceiling and only 20 light sensors on the floor. The system can track the user’s skeleton as he or she moves around in a room with furniture and other objects.
“We’re turning light into a ubiquitous sensing medium that tracks what we do and senses how we behave,” says senior author Xia Zhou, an assistant professor of computer science and co-director of the DartNets (Dartmouth Networking and Ubiquitous Systems) Lab. “Our new work demonstrates a new unobtrusive sensing paradigm exploiting the light around us. It addresses several key practical issues of light-based sensing, including the furniture blockage, reliance on a large number of light sensors and user mobility. It pushes the vision of light sensing closer to practice.surrounding smart objects, such as drones and smart appliances and play games, using purely the light around us.
It can also enable a new, passive health and behavioral monitoring paradigm to foster healthy lifestyles or identify early symptoms of certain diseases. The possibilities are unlimited.”
Learn more: Dartmouth Team Uses Smart Light to Track Human Behavior
The Latest on: Tracking Human Behavior
via Google News
The Latest on: Tracking Human Behavior
- Meta Leans In to Tracking Your Emotions in the Metaverseon January 19, 2022 at 11:14 am
New patents held by Facebook parent company Meta Platforms have given us an utterly predictable and bleak glimpse of Our Zucked Future. The concepts suggest that once its shared virtual space Horizon ...
- Practice Innovations: Will the Internet of Behavior change how we act and interact?on January 18, 2022 at 8:44 am
As we evolve toward the Internet of Behavior will people be able to accept being monitored and tracked with a combination of data tech & behavioral science?
- Meta wants to track your eye movements to sell you stuffon January 18, 2022 at 8:11 am
A series of patents recently granted to Meta Platforms show how Facebook plans to collect biometric information to create realistic virtual reality experiences and tailor advertising to users’ ...
- ESET Updates Cybersecurity Awareness Training Program with New Content, Advanced Bonus Training Track and Texas DIR Certificationon January 18, 2022 at 7:05 am
ESET Updates Cybersecurity Awareness Training Program with New Content, Advanced Bonus Training Track and Texas DIR Certification. Jan 18, 2022 11:05 AM ET. Legal Newswire POWERED ...
- Texas COVID hospitalizations surpass first peak levels, on track to break all recordson January 14, 2022 at 7:00 am
There are more Texans hospitalized with COVID-19 than in the first peak of the pandemic in July 2020, according to state data.
- Eye Tracking System Market Trends, Strong Application Scope, Key Players, Growth Overview and Forecast by 2028on January 14, 2022 at 4:00 am
The US$ 472 million eye tracking system market is slated to take a whopping leap over the next decade, reaching the value equating US$ 5 Bn by the end of 2028. As depicted in a recently released ...
- Big Brother in the workplace: Do employees accept behavior tracking?on January 11, 2022 at 9:50 pm
Compelled to digitally monitor employee productivity, companies are investing in sophisticated behavior tracking tools at a breathtaking pace, giving little thought to how employees feel about those p ...
- Eye tracking — making the metaverse authenticon January 11, 2022 at 7:40 am
For this post, my colleague Maggie and I sat down to discuss the state of XR, the metaverse, what it means for everyone, and how eye tracking will bring a level of authenticity to it. There's been a ...
- This light bulb can track your sleep and monitor your heart rate from afaron January 4, 2022 at 8:14 am
At CES 2022, smart home device maker, Sengled has offered a glimpse into an upcoming light bulb that can track your sleep ... virtual map that can detect “human behavior.” ...
- The brains of infants with autism do not tune in with motherese speechon January 2, 2022 at 3:59 pm
In a new study, published January 3, 2022 in the journal Nature Human Behavior, researchers at University ... which combined state-of-the-art brain imaging, eye-tracking and clinical testing ...
via Bing News
