(November 2024) Jiachen presented a paper at AI for Aging in Place Symposium
Jiachen presented her work-in-progress paper at the AAAI Fall Symposium Series on AI for Aging in Place at Alexandria, VA.
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UbiWell Lab
The Ubiquitous Computing for Health and Well-being (UbiWell) Lab is an interdisciplinary research group at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University.
We work on developing data-driven solutions to enable effective sensing and interventions for mental- and behavioral-health outcomes with mobile and ubiquitous technologies.
Research Areas
Our interdisciplinary team works at the intersection of mobile/wearable sensing, data science, human-centered computing, and behavioral science.
We work on exploring and advancing the complete "lifecycle" of mental- and behavioral-health sensing and intervention, which includes (a) accurately sensing and detecting a mental or behavioral health condition, like stress and opioid use; (b) after detecting a particular condition, determining the right time to deliver the intervention or support, such that the user is most likely to be receptive to the interventions provided; and (c) choosing the best intervention delivery mechanism and modality to ensure just-in-time delivery and reachability.
A simplified representation of the sensing to intervention lifecycle.
Current Projects
Causal modeling for physiological stress
We are working on various projects to leverage multimodal data and understand the contextual and behavioral factors that lead to physiological stress, and evaluate its association with the perception of stress.
Predicting relapse during OUD treatment
We are working on a longitudinal study to detect at-risk indicators, e.g., stress, craving, and mood, among patients undergoing Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) treatment, using passively collected contextual and sensor data from smartphones and wearables.
States-of-receptivity for digital health interventions
We have multiple projects currently underway to better evaluate the contexts where people are willing and able to engage with and use digital health interventions. These range from behavior-change interventions in free-living situations to interventions during specific scenarios, e.g., driving.
News
(October 2024) UbiWell at Dartmouth Digital Health Summit
Several lab members attended the Digital Health Summit at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
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(October 2024) Varun co-organized a workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
Varun was invited to co-organize a workshop on the challenges and opportunities with wearables at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) in Prague.
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(October 2024) We are recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025
We are looking for highly motivated students interested in the intersection of Ubiquitous Computing and Health to join our in 2025.
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(October 2024) UbiWell Lab at UbiComp 2024
Several lab members attended UbiComp 2024 in Melbourne!
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(September 2024) Akshat presented the SeSaMe paper at ACII 2024
Akshat presented his paper at ACII 2024 in Glasgow, UK.
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(September 2024) New grant from Templeton Foundation
We received funding from Templeton Foundation to conduct a novel study to expand our work on adolescent social media use.
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