[dcchairs2016] UbiComp/ISWC 2016 Doctoral School notification - #102

[dcchairs2016 at ubicomp.org]

Dear Muhammad Awais,

Please find enclosed the review for your accepted submission for the Ubicomp/ISWC 2016 Doctoral School.

102: "Physical Activity Classification Meeting Daily Life Conditions"

Please read the reviews and instructions that the committee members included in it carefully, as they contains necessary further steps to ensure your DC paper submission appears in the program. Any of the committee instructions has to be considered as required for your final version.

As a reminder, the final version ("camera ready" version) is due no later than Wednesday, July 17th, 2016 at 11:59pm PDT. We will send more instructions about how to upload the camera-ready version of your paper before the deadline.

Thank you for submitting your work to UbiComp 2016, and congratulations again on your acceptance to the Ubicomp 2016 DS. We look forward to seeing you in Heidelberg in September!


Max Mühlhäuser
Nadir Weibel
Rene Mayrhofer

UbiComp 2016 Doctoral School Chairs


------------------------ Submission 102, Review 1 ------------------------

Title: Physical Activity Classification Meeting Daily Life Conditions


Confidence

   3  (Very confident - I am knowledgeable in the area)

Contribution to UbiComp

   This submission proposes to investigate physical activity classification
   in real world conditions, thus improving the validity of current
   approaches that lack ecological validity (mostly lab-based).

Overall Rating

   5  (Probably accept: I would argue for accepting this paper.)

The Review

   This is an interesting space to work in. The author claims that despite
   the great amount of work in physical activity classification (PAC), most
   approaches lack validity because the underlying ML algorithms are not
   based on data collected in naturalistic settings, but in the lab. This
   was for instance tested with a population of older adults.

   The research presented here sets up to resolve this problem at a general
   level, and potentially create new ecologically valid measures, however it
   is not clear how the author is intending to cover the large space. The
   research plan is clear at a general level, but it is not clear what
   specific activities will be implemented to get to the intended
   contribution. Activities planned ahead are not really well specified and
   are currently very broad.

   Although the plan is still too broad and unspecific with respect to
   planned research  activities to reach the goal, the PhD student seems to
   be at the right stage for a DC presentation, and this could help with
   better framing the scope of the research, too broad for now.

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   Camera-ready requirements: in preparing the camera ready paper, we expect
   the author to better define the future activities. The hope is that this
   will help framing the work in a more focused way. Please make sure that
   the future research is defined to a certain level of detail; this will
   help the DC panel to help with the most appropriate discussion points.

   Also, please consider reformatting the big table on page 2, so that it
   withs in a portrait page. In case this does not work, please rotate it,
   so there won't be any problem with the proceedings.