This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International and First International Workshop on Human Activity Recognition and Anomaly Detection, Conjunction with IJCAI 2024, held in Jeju, South Korea, during August 3–9, 2024.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Anomaly Detection with Foundation Models and Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition.