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To enable these people to have more carefree lives, smart homes are designed to assist elderly people by recognizing their daily activities. Although different models and algorithms that use temporal and spatial features for activity recognition have been proposed, the rigid representations of these features damage the accuracy of activity recognition. In this paper, a two-stage approach is proposed to recognize the activities of a single resident. Firstly, in terms of temporal features, the approximate duration, start and end time are extracted from the activity records. Secondly, a set of activity records is clustered according to the records\u2019 temporal features. Then, the classifiers are used to recognize the daily activities in each cluster according to the spatial features. Finally, two experiments are done to validate the recognition of daily activities in order to compare the proposed approach with a one-dimensional model. 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