A wireless sensor-based system for self-tracking activity levels among manual wheelchair users

ActiDote —activity as an antidote— is a system for manual wheelchair users that uses wireless sensors to recognize activities of various intensity levels in order to allow self-tracking while providing motivation. In this paper, we describe both the hardware setup and the software pipeline that enable our system to operate. Laboratory tests using multi-modal fusion and machine learning reveal promising results attaining a F1-score classification performance of 0.97 on five different wheelchair-based activities belonging to four intensity levels. Finally, we show that such a low cost system can be used for an easy self-monitoring of physical activity levels among manual wheelchair users