Development of tools for the use of Android cell-phones to recognize user activities

Abstract

The goal of this study is developing the fundamental techniques to define activity of the users like walking, running, standing or cycling while the user is using two different type of Network connectivity, GPRS or Wi-Fi by calculating the distance of the user in a period of time by the longitude and latitude of the user´s location which has reached in the location recognizing. Therefore, the main goal of the study to retrieve user’s activity is achieved by requesting location of user for each period of time, from current and previous location of user.