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The ever-increasing ability of smartphones for sensing paves the way for a new form of human-computer interaction which wasn’t possible before. One of these possibilities is monitoring Muslims’ prayers which consist of a set of physical activities that must be conducted in a correct way, i.e. ordered and complete. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to monitor and detect prayer activities using mobile phone accelerometers in order to evaluate the correctness of prayer. The method involves four stages: data collection, signal pre-processing, features extraction and classification.
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Al-Ghannam, R., Kanjo, E., Al-Dossari, H. (2016). Monitoring Prayer Using Mobile Phone Accelerometer. In: Zhang, Y., Peng, L., Youn, CH. (eds) Cloud Computing. CloudComp 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 167. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38904-2_17
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