Jul 21
MobiSys 2020 recap
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Jan 28
Insomnia symptoms and short sleep predict anxiety and worry in response to stress exposure: a prospective cohort study of medical interns
Authors: Sinh Huynh; Rajesh Balan; JeongGil Ko; Youngki Lee Paper: link Slides/Video: link Abstract: Study objectives While anxiety rates are alarmingly high in short sleeping insomniacs, the relationship between insomnia and anxiety symptoms has not been extensively studied, especially in comparison to the relationship between insomnia and depressive symptoms. Using residency training as a naturalistic…
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Jan 15
EthanolBand: The Transdermal Sensing of Blood Alcohol Concentration with Optics
Alcoholism or Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is a significant global problem which negatively impacts all aspects of our lives. There are several alcohol testing and measurement tools availmarket that use a variety of bodily fluids including blood, plasma, breath, and sweat. However, the lack of passive and continuous sensing mechanisms, the cost and size of…
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Jan 14
Clinically Meaningful Use of Mental Health Apps and its Effects on Depression: Mixed Methods Study
Authors: Renwen Zhang (Northwestern University); Jennifer Nicholas (Feinberg School of Medicine); Ashley A Knapp (Feinberg School of Medicine); Andrea K Graham (Feinberg School of Medicine); Elizabeth Gray (Feinberg School of Medicine); Mary J Kwasny (Feinberg School of Medicine); Madhu Reddy (Northwestern University); David C Mohr (Feinberg School of Medicine); Paper: link Slides/Video: Paper Review –…
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Jan 11
VitaMon: Measuring Heart Rate Variability Using Smartphone Front Camera
Authors: Sinh Huynh (Singapore Management University); Rajesh Balan (Singapore Management University); JeongGil Ko (Yonsei University); Youngki Lee (Seoul National University) Paper: link Slides/Video: – Abstract: We present VitaMon, a mobile sensing system that can measure the inter-heartbeat interval (IBI) from the facial video captured by a commodity smartphone’s front camera. The continuous IBI measurement is used…
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Jan 11
FerroTag: A Paper-based mmWave-Scannable Tagging Infrastructure
Highlights: SenSys19 best paper; mmwave Authors: Zhengxiong Li (University at Buffalo); Baicheng Chen (University at Buffalo); Zhuolin Yang (University at Buffalo); Huining Li (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Chenhan Xu (University at Buffalo); Xingyu Chen (University at Buffalo); Kun Wang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Wenyao Xu (University at Buffalo) Paper: link Slides/Video:…
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