Can Earables Support Effective User Engagement during
Weight-Based Gym Exercises?
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| | September 16, 2019, Monday
3:00pm - 3:20pm
Meeting Room 4.4, Level 4
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
80 Stamford Road
Singapore 178902
We look forward to seeing you at this research seminar. 
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About the Talk
We explore the use of personal ‘earable’ devices (widely used by gym-goers) in providing personalized, quantified insights and feedback to users performing gym exercises. As in-ear sensing by itself is often too weak to pick up exercise-driven motion dynamics, we propose a novel, low-cost system that can monitor multiple concurrent users by fusing data from (a) wireless earphones, equipped with inertial and physiological sensors and (b) inertial sensors attached to exercise equipment. We share preliminary findings from a small-scale study to demonstrate the promise of this approach, as well as identify open challenges.
This a post-conference talk for EarComp 2019, 1st International Workshop on Earable Computing (Co-located with ACM UbiComp/ISWC 2019).
About the Speaker
Meeralakshmi Radhakrishnan is a PhD student in the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, working in the area of mobile systems with Professor Archan Misra. She received her Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Mahatma Gandhi University, India, in 2011. Prior to joining the PhD programme, she was a Senior Software Engineer at Infosys Limited, India. Her current research focuses on exploiting mobile, wearable and IoT sensing for physical analytics and to enable lifestyle monitoring applications.
