GARSAaaS: group activity recognition and situation analysis as a service

Journal of Internet Services and Applications

Table 2 Comparing Sensor-Based Group Activity Recognition Work

Reference/Project name	Detected activities	Extensible approach	Provide service	Support perspective	Simulation-based testing	Group detection	Platform/tools
Gordon et al. [13]; GruMon	Meeting, presentation, coffee break	No	No	No	No	No	JENNIC JN5139 Microprocessor, ConTiki OS, Weka
Hung et al. [21]	Speaking, laughing, gesturing, drinking, or stepping	No	No	No	No	No	Android
Szczerbak et al. [33]; KRAMER	Home, school, on the way, busy	No	No	No	No	No	Android, JAVA, Google Place API, MQTT, JSON
Do et al. [11]; GroupUs; KRAMER	Being with family, Weekly group meeting	No	No	No	No	Yes	Android, SQL Lite
Bourbia et al. [7]	Topic discussion, lab meeting	No	No	No	No	Yes	Android, SQL Lite
Jayarajah et al. [23]	NA	No	No	No	No	Yes	Android
Lu et al. [27]	Moving furniture, playing checkers, paying bills, retrieving dishes from a kitchen cabinet	No	No	No	No	No	NA
Hsu et al. [20]	Chat detection in meeting activity and public occasions	No	No	No	No	No	NA
Guo et al. [17]; GroupMe	Can only detect groups	No	No	No	No	Yes	Android platform. SQLite
Gordon et al. [14]	Volleyball, badminton, football	No	No	No	No	No	Android / Matlab
Lu et al. [35]	NA	No	No	No	No	Group is given	Python
Gurdon et al. [15]	Walking together	No	No	No	No	Yes	Simulated by Matlab
Zhang et al. [36]; CAP	Playing Soccer	No	No	No	No	No	Matlab
Singla et al. [32]	Moving furniture, playing checkers	No	No	No	No	No	SQL Database
Guo et al. [18]; MobiGroup	Sport, Quiet, Street Roaming	No	No	No	No	Yes	Android, SQL Lite
Gravina et al. [16]	Physical activity monitoring, step counting, physical energy estimation	No	Yes	No	No	NA	Google App Engine, NoSQL, Datastore