Publications

Recent publications from the UbiWell Lab at HCI, Mobile, and Health venues.

2024

Imputation Strategies for Longitudinal Behavioral Studies: Predicting Depression Using GLOBEM Datasets

Sohini Bhattacharya, Rahul Majethia, Akshat Choube, Varun Mishra
Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 2024

Building an Open-Source Community to Enhance Autonomic Nervous System Signal Analysis: DBDP-Autonomic

Jessilyn Dunn, Varun Mishra, Md Mobashir Hasan Shandhi, Hayoung Jeong, Natasha Yamane, Yuna Watanabe, Bill Chen, Matthew S. Goodwin
arXiv 2024

Collecting Self-reported Physical Activity and Posture Data Using Audio-based Ecological Momentary Assessment

Ha Le, Rithika Lakshminarayanan, Jixin Li, Varun Mishra, Stephen Intille
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Exploring the Relationship Between Intrinsic Motivation and Receptivity to mHealth Interventions

Varun Mishra, Sarah Hong, David Kotz
Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 2024

AI on My Shoulder: Supporting Emotional Labor in Front-Office Roles with an LLM-based Empathetic Coworker

Vedant Das Swain, Joy Zhong, Jash Rajesh Parekh, Yechan Jeon, Roy Zimmerman, Mary Czerwinski, Jina Suh, Varun Mishra, Koustuv Saha, Javier Hernandez
arXiv 2024

SOSW: Stress Sensing With Off-the-Shelf Smartwatches in the Wild

Kobiljon Toshnazarov, Uichin Lee, Byung Hyung Kim, Varun Mishra, Lismer Andres Caceres Najarro, Youngtae Noh
IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Clinical Challenges and AI Opportunities in Decision-Making for Cancer Treatment-Induced Cardiotoxicity

Siyi Wu, Weidan Cao, Shihan Fu, Bingsheng Yao, Ziqi Yang, Changchang Yin, Varun Mishra, Daniel Addison, Ping Zhang, Dakuo Wang
arXiv 2024

2023

Investigating Social Interaction Patterns with Depression Severity across Different Personality Traits Using Digital Phenotyping

Ohida Binte Amin, Varun Mishra, Aarti Sathyanarayana
2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW) 2023

Patient Engagement in a Multimodal Digital Phenotyping Study of Opioid Use Disorder

Cynthia I. Campbell, Ching-Hua Chen, Sara R. Adams, Asma Asyyed, Ninad R. Athale, Monique B. Does, Saeed Hassanpour, Emily Hichborn, Melanie Jackson-Morris, Nicholas C. Jacobson, Heather K. Jones, David Kotz, Chantal A. Lambert-Harris, Zhiguo Li, Bethany McLeman, Varun Mishra, Catherine Stanger, Geetha Subramaniam, Weiyi Wu, Christopher Zegers, Lisa A. Marsch
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)

Detecting Receptivity for mHealth Interventions

Varun Mishra, Florian Künzler, Jan-Niklas Kramer, Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch, David Kotz
GetMobile Magazine 2023
Research Highlight

2022

The Feasibility and Utility of Harnessing Digital Health to Understand Clinical Trajectories in Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: D-TECT Study Design and Methodological Considerations

Lisa A. Marsch, Ching-Hua Chen, Sara R. Adams, Asma Asyyed, Monique B. Does, Saeed Hassanpour, Emily Hichborn, Melanie Jackson-Morris, Nicholas C. Jacobson, Heather K. Jones, David Kotz, Chantal A. Lambert-Harris, Zhiguo Li, Bethany McLeman, Varun Mishra, Catherine Stanger, Geetha Subramaniam, Weiyi Wu, Cynthia I. Campbell
Frontiers in Psychiatry

2021

FLIRT: A Feature Generation Toolkit for Wearable Data

Simon Föll, Martin Maritsch, Federica Spinola, Varun Mishra, Filipe Barata, Tobias Kowatsch, Elgar Fleisch, Felix Wortmann
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

When Do Drivers Interact with In-vehicle Well-being Interventions? An Exploratory Analysis of a Longitudinal Study on Public Roads

Kevin Koch, Varun Mishra, Shu Liu, Thomas Berger, Elgar Fleisch, David Kotz, Felix Wortmann
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (IMWUT)

Detecting Receptivity for mHealth Interventions in the Natural Environment

Varun Mishra, Florian Künzler, Jan-Niklas Kramer, Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch, David Kotz
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (IMWUT)
Distinguished Paper Award

2020

Detection of Artifacts in Ambulatory Electrodermal Activity Data

Shkurta Gashi, Elena Di Lascio, Bianca Stancu, Vedant Das Swain, Varun Mishra, Martin Gjoreski, Silvia Santini
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (IMWUT)

Which Components of a Smartphone Walking App Help Users to Reach Personalized Step Goals? Results From an Optimization Trial

Jan-Niklas Kramer, Florian Kunzler, Varun Mishra, Shawna N Smith, David Kotz, Urte Scholz, Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch
Annals of Behavioral Medicine

The application of digital health to the assessment and treatment of substance use disorders: The past, current, and future role of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network

Lisa A. Marsch, Aimee Campbell, Cynthia Campbell, Ching-Hua Chen, Emre Ertin, Udi Ghitza, Chantal Lambert-Harris, Saeed Hassanpour, August F. Holtyn, Yih-Ing Hser, Petra Jacobs, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Shea Lemley, David Kotz, Andrea Meier, Bethany McLeman, Jennifer McNeely, Varun Mishra, Larissa Mooney, Edward Nunes, Chrysovalantis Stafylis, Catherine Stanger, Elizabeth Saunders, Geetha Subramaniam, Sean Young
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Continuous Detection of Physiological Stress with Commodity Hardware

Varun Mishra, Gunnar Pope, Sarah Lord, Stephanie Lewia, Byron Lowens, Kelly Caine, Sougata Sen, Ryan Halter, David Kotz
ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare (HEALTH)

Evaluating the Reproducibility of Physiological Stress Detection Models

Varun Mishra, Sougata Sen, Grace Chen, Tian Hao, Jeffrey Rogers, Ching-Hua Chen, David Kotz
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (IMWUT)

2019

Exploring the State-of-Receptivity for MHealth Interventions

Florian Kunzler, Varun Mishra, Jan-Niklas Kramer, David Kotz, Elgar Fleisch, Tobias Kowatsch
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies