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For one thing, due to the variations in how users perform activities, the performance of a well-trained AR model typically drops on new users. For another, existing UR models are powerless to activity changes, as there are significant differences between the sensor data in different activity scenarios. To address these problems, we propose METIER (deep multi-task learning based activity and user recognition) model, which solves AR and UR tasks jointly and transfers knowledge across them. User-related knowledge from UR task helps AR task to model user characteristics, and activity-related knowledge from AR task guides UR task to handle activity changes. METIER softly shares parameters between AR and UR networks, and optimizes these two networks jointly. The commonalities and differences across tasks are exploited to promote AR and UR tasks simultaneously. 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