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The experiments have been carried out with a group of 30 volunteers within an age bracket of 19-48 years. Each person performed six activities (WALKING, WALKING_UPSTAIRS, WALKING_DOWNSTAIRS, SITTING, STANDING, LAYING) wearing a smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S II) on the waist. Using its embedded accelerometer and gyroscope, we captured 3-axial linear acceleration and 3-axial angular velocity at a constant rate of 50Hz. The experiments have been video-recorded to label the data manually. The obtained dataset has been randomly partitioned into two sets, where 70% of the volunteers was selected for generating the training data and 30% the test data.

The sensor signals (accelerometer and gyroscope) were pre-processed by applying noise filters and then sampled in fixed-width sliding windows of 2.56 sec and 50% overlap (128 readings/window). The sensor acceleration signal, which has gravitational and body motion components, was separated using a Butterworth low-pass filter into body acceleration and gravity. The gravitational force is assumed to have only low frequency components, therefore a filter with 0.3 Hz cutoff frequency was used. From each window, a vector of features was obtained by calculating variables from the time and frequency domain. See 'features_info.txt' for more details.

##For each record it is provided:

  • Triaxial acceleration from the accelerometer (total acceleration) and the estimated body acceleration.
  • Triaxial Angular velocity from the gyroscope.
  • A 561-feature vector with time and frequency domain variables.
  • Its activity label.
  • An identifier of the subject who carried out the experiment.

##Source of the data:

The data was sourced from this location

https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/getdata%2Fprojectfiles%2FUCI%20HAR%20Dataset.zip

##The dataset includes the following files:

  • 'README.txt'

  • 'features_info.txt': Shows information about the variables used on the feature vector.

  • 'features.txt': List of all features.

  • 'activity_labels.txt': Links the class labels with their activity name.

  • 'train/X_train.txt': Training set.

  • 'train/y_train.txt': Training labels.

  • 'test/X_test.txt': Test set.

  • 'test/y_test.txt': Test labels.

The following files are available for the train and test data. Their descriptions are equivalent.

  • 'train/subject_train.txt': Each row identifies the subject who performed the activity for each window sample. Its range is from 1 to 30.

  • 'train/Inertial Signals/total_acc_x_train.txt': The acceleration signal from the smartphone accelerometer X axis in standard gravity units 'g'. Every row shows a 128 element vector. The same description applies for the 'total_acc_x_train.txt' and 'total_acc_z_train.txt' files for the Y and Z axis.

  • 'train/Inertial Signals/body_acc_x_train.txt': The body acceleration signal obtained by subtracting the gravity from the total acceleration.

  • 'train/Inertial Signals/body_gyro_x_train.txt': The angular velocity vector measured by the gyroscope for each window sample. The units are radians/second.

##Notes:

  • Features are normalized and bounded within [-1,1].
  • Each feature vector is a row on the text file.

For more information about this dataset contact: activityrecognition@smartlab.ws

##Transformations on the data

  • The instrument data X.train and X.test data are loaded and merged into variable all.x

  • The activity codes y.train and y.test data are loaded and merged into variable all.y

  • The subjects subject.train and subject.test data are loaded and merged into all.subject

  • Descriptive names are applied to columns in all.x from file features.txt. Titles "activity.id" and "subject" are applied to tables all.y and all.subject respectively

  • All subject, X, and y data are merged into a single table all.data

  • Activity labels are loaded from file "activity_labels.txt" into activity.labels.

  • Filter is applied to extract mean and standard deviation (std) columns, data into variable selected.x

  • The subject, activity and filtered data are then combined into variable all.data.selected. The activity labels are applied to the rows by joining the activity.labels table.

  • This data is melted and cast to produce the final tidy data set tidy.data. This data set is saved in file "tidy_data.txt".

#License:

Use of this dataset in publications must be acknowledged by referencing the following publication [1]

[1] Davide Anguita, Alessandro Ghio, Luca Oneto, Xavier Parra and Jorge L. Reyes-Ortiz. Human Activity Recognition on Smartphones using a Multiclass Hardware-Friendly Support Vector Machine. International Workshop of Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL 2012). Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Dec 2012

This dataset is distributed AS-IS and no responsibility implied or explicit can be addressed to the authors or their institutions for its use or misuse. Any commercial use is prohibited.

Jorge L. Reyes-Ortiz, Alessandro Ghio, Luca Oneto, Davide Anguita. November 2012.