WhereWear
Carlos Ruiz, Shijia Pan, Hae Young Noh, Pei Zhang · 2019
With the growth of wearable devices, numerous health and smart building applications are enabled. As a result, many people wear multiple devices for different applications, such as fitness tracking. Being able to match devices' physical identity (e.g., smartwatch on Bob's left forearm) to their virtual identity (e.g., IP 192.168.0.22) is often a requirement for these applications, especially when different people could use the same device --e.g., home, gym equipment-- or be worn in different places. Context-aware sensing, utilizing the insight that co-located sensors detect the same events, has been used to establish such association ubiquitously. However, challenges arise with the growing number of on-body devices, and existing approaches fail to distinguish where the devices are on the body.