The document describes a machine learning approach to classify activities of daily living (ADL) using data from a wrist-worn accelerometer. The approach uses support vector machines (SVM) with feature engineering that includes vector magnitude and singular value decomposition. The model is trained on a dataset containing 11 ADLs performed by 16 volunteers. Hyperparameter tuning is performed to optimize the SVM, achieving up to 86% accuracy on test data when using both vector magnitude and SVD features compared to 71% accuracy using only vector magnitude. The results demonstrate an improved method for detecting ADLs but would benefit from testing on additional datasets.