Abstract
Modern smartphones and wearables are able to continuously collect significant amounts of sensor data, where such data can be helpful to study a user's mobility or social interaction patterns, but also to deliver various services based on a user's presence at different places during certain times of the day. Therefore, it is important to accurately identify personal places of interest (POIs), such as a user's workplace or home. Such places are usually determined using segmentation of location traces, but frequent gaps in the data (i.e., missing location readings) can result in a large number of small and incomplete segments that should actually be grouped together into a single large segment. This paper presents a segmentation approach that utilizes a user's personal data obtained from multiple sensor sources and devices such as the battery recharge behavior (measured on smartphones), step counts, and sleep patterns (measured by wearables), to opportunistically fill gaps in the user's location traces. Using the data from a mobile crowd sensing study of more than 450 users over a 2-year period, we show that our approach is able to generate fewer, but more complete segments compared to the state of the art.
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