The WISDM (Wireless Sensor Data Mining) Lab is concerned with collecting the sensor data from smart phones and other modern mobile devices (e.g., tablet computers, music players, etc.) and mining this sensor data for useful knowledge. Currently our efforts are mainly focused on the acclerometer and GPS sensor data from these devices, but in the future we will mine the audio sensors (microphones), image sensors (cameras), light sensors, proximity sensors, temperature sensors, pressure sensors, direction sensors (compasses) and various other sensors that reside on these devices.

Thus far we have successfully addressed the problems of activity recognition and accelerometer-based biometric identification. Our work on activity recognition allows us to recognize many of the physical activities that a smart phone user is performing (walking, jogging, sitting, etc.) based on the user's movements, as measured by the smart phone's tri-axial accelerometer. This work is described in a recent publication and will soon result in the public deployment of our Actitracker service, which will permit a user to track the activities that they or their family perform, via a web-based interface, by downloading our smartphone app. Our work on accelerometer-based biometric identification is also detailed in another publication, which describes how we can identify a user based on his or her acclerometer data. We are in the process of exploring how GPS data can be mined to provide valuable services and expect to make progress on this over the summer of 2011.

The WISDM Lab is led by Dr. Gary Weiss, a faculty member in the department of Computer and Information Science at Fordham University. The WISDM Lab includes over a dozen members, most of which are Fordham undergraduates. Our project is currently based on the Android platform and Android-based smartphones. This research has been generously supported by Fordham University, Fordham's Rose Hill undergraduate college, and Google Inc.

Join us at one of our meetings! They are usually held alternate Mondays at 3:45pm in John Mulcahy Hall after the WISDM class.
If interested, please contact Dr. Weiss.