What is ‘activity’ – research
I am interested in monitoring or observe different people behavior, referring to different activities. Activity is affected by culture, personal experience, background, and ‘NEED’.
Definition of Activity:
Activity Ac*tiv”i*ty, n.; pl. {Activities}. [Cf. F. activit['e], LL. activitas.]
The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. “The activity of toil.” –Palfrey.
n 1: any specific activity; “they avoided all recreational activity” [ant: {inactivity}]
2: the state of being active; “his sphere of activity”; “he is out of action” [syn: {action}, {activeness}] [ant: {inaction}, {inaction}, {inaction}]
3: an organic process that takes place in the body; “respiratory activity” [syn: {bodily process}, {body process}, {bodily function}]
4: (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction; “catalytic activity”
5: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); “the action of natural forces”; “volcanic activity” [syn: {natural process}, {natural action}, {action}]
6: the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically; “the level of activity declines with age”
[syn: {activeness}] [ant: {inactiveness}]
Ref: http://cdict.net/?q=activity&enc=UTF-8
Activity on YouTube: (with 481,496 views) => music / light/ audio-visual/ dance performance
Activity on Vimeo: (most liked and most played) => blogging, activity as action
Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
Activity on Flickr: – trading, bathing, Cultivation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bacillus/2214116997/
Activity search in google: => in relation to timestamp, change
http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2007-June/024461.html
Activity in software:
e.g Mac: Activity Monitor => use for manage all the active running application, can force quit if your machine is hanged. Monitor something so that you may have other action.
Mind map is always a good tool for organizing ur thought:
my interested area: sensors <->activity<->visualization
