Mining Personal Data Using Smartphones and Wearable Devices: A Survey

The staggering growth in smartphone and wearable device use has led to a massive scale generation of personal (user-specific) data. To explore, analyze, and extract useful information and knowledge from the deluge of personal data, one has to leverage these devices as the data-mining platforms in ubiquitous, pervasive, and big data environments. This study presents the personal ecosystem where all computational resources, communication facilities, storage and knowledge management systems are available in user proximity. An extensive review on recent literature has been conducted and a detailed taxonomy is presented. The performance evaluation metrics and their empirical evidences are sorted out in this paper. Finally, we have highlighted some future research directions and potentially emerging application areas for personal data mining using smartphones and wearable devices.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Italian National Conference on Sensors

• Publication date

  2015-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/s150204430PMID 25688592PMCID 4367420
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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