Smart phones comprise a large and rapidly growing market. These devices provide unprecedented opportunities for sensor mining since they include a large variety of sensors, including an: acceleration sensor (accelerometer), location sensor (GPS), direction sensor (compass), audio sensor (microphone), image sensor (camera), proximity sensor, light sensor, and temperature sensor. Combined with the ubiquity and portability of these devices, these sensors provide us with an unprecedented view into people's lives-and an excellent opportunity for data mining. But there are obstacles to sensor mining applications, due to the severe resource limitations (e.g., power, memory, bandwidth) faced by mobile devices. In this paper we discuss these limitations, their impact, and propose a solution based on our WISDM (WIireless Sensor Data Mining) smart phone-based sensor mining architecture.

Activity Recognition (AR), which identifies the activity that a user performs, is attracting a tremendous amount of attention, especially with the recent explosion of smart mobile devices. These ubiquitous mobile devices, most notably but not exclusively smartphones, provide the sensors, processing, and communication capabilities that enable the development of diverse and innovative activity recognitionbased applications. However, although there has been a great deal of research into activity recognition, surprisingly little practical work has been done in the area of applications in mobile devices. In this paper we describe and categorize a variety of activity recognition-based applications. Our hope is that this work will encourage the development of such applications and also influence the direction of activity recognition research.

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Human activity recognition (AR) has begun to mature as a field, but for AR research to thrive, large, diverse, high quality, AR data sets must be publically available and AR methodology must be clearly documented and standardized. In the process of comparing our AR research to other efforts, however, we found that most AR data sets are sufficiently limited as to impact the reliability of existing research results, and that many AR research papers do not clearly document their experimental methodology and often make unrealistic assumptions. In this paper we outline problems and limitations with AR data sets and describe the methodology problems we noticed, in the hope that this will lead to the creation of improved and better documented data sets and improved AR experimental methodology. Although we cover a broad array of methodological issues, our primary focus is on an often overlooked factor, model type, which determines how AR training and test data are partitioned-and how AR models are evaluated. Our prior research indicates that personal, hybrid, and impersonal/universal models yield dramatically different performance [30], yet many research studies do not highlight or even identify this factor. We make concrete recommendations to address these issues and also describe our own publically available AR data sets.

Image recognition systems offer the promise to learn from images at scale without requiring expert knowledge. However, past research suggests that machine learning systems often produce biased output. In this article, we evaluate potential gender biases of commercial image recognition platforms using photographs of U.S. members of Congress and a large number of Twitter images posted by these politicians. Our crowdsourced validation shows that commercial image recognition systems can produce labels that are correct and biased at the same time as they selectively report a subset of many possible true labels. We find that images of women received three times more annotations related to physical appearance. Moreover, women in images are recognized at substantially lower rates in comparison with men. We discuss how encoded biases such as these affect the visibility of women, reinforce harmful gender stereotypes, and limit the validity of the insights that can be gathered from such data.