Nutrition is fundamental to health and paces everyday routines. Dietary monitoring is needed in many healthcare areas, from diabetes and dementia to overweight and obesity.  Our research aims to design effective and practical sensor devices and signal pattern analysis algorithms that explain diet-re... Continue

Oliver Amft gave a talk at the Technology Forum 'Connectivity' hosted by the Strategische Partnerschaft Sensorik at Regensburg on Nov 30, 2017. More information: www.sensorik-bayern.de/de/technologieforum-connectivity-in-unserem-lebensraum Continue

The new Wearable Computing department in IEEE Pervasive magazine is edited by Oliver Amft and Kristof Van Laerhoven. There first department was just published. Continue

ACTLab participates at the MT-Connect 2017 fair in Nuremberg this year! Rui Zhang and Florian Wahl present our smart eyeglasses projects, including heart beat measurement and chewing detection. Moreover Florian Wahl pitches the new Chronify app that recognises sleep phases without requiring users to place their smartphone at particular places. Continue

The ACROSSING fellows of the chair (Giovanni Schiboni and Umar Ahmad) and Oliver Amft participate in the ACROSSING training event in Leicester and Cambridge, UK. Continue

The workshop Automatic Dietary Monitoring - The grand challenge from lab to real-life solutions was held in conjunction with BSN 2017 at Philips Research Eindhoven, co-organised by Oliver Amft, Benny Lo, and Guang-Zhong Yang. Continue

The book 'Smart Textiles: Fundamentals, Design and Interaction' has been published by Springer. Editors: Stefan Schneegass, Oliver Amft Continue