Recent Advances and Challenges in Ubiquitous Sensing
It provides an overview for researchers and practitioners in fields like human-computer interaction and healthcare, but is incremental as a survey paper.
This survey reviews recent advances in ubiquitous sensing, highlighting how it overcomes high installation costs by leveraging environmental noise and expands to capture mental activities like cognitive load and emotion.
Ubiquitous sensing is tightly coupled with activity recognition. This survey reviews recent advances in Ubiquitous sensing and looks ahead on promising future directions. In particular, Ubiquitous sensing crosses new barriers giving us new ways to interact with the environment or to inspect our psyche. Through sensing paradigms that parasitically utilise stimuli from the noise of environmental, third-party pre-installed systems, sensing leaves the boundaries of the personal domain. Compared to previous environmental sensing approaches, these new systems mitigate high installation and placement cost by providing a robustness towards process noise. On the other hand, sensing focuses inward and attempts to capture mental activities such as cognitive load, fatigue or emotion through advances in, for instance, eye-gaze sensing systems or interpretation of body gesture or pose. This survey summarises these developments and discusses current research questions and promising future directions.