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Jan 1
2023
Experience paper got accepted at Case Studies of HCI in Practice (CHI23)

Experience: Barriers and Opportunities of Wearables for Eating Research

Nov 1
2022
Soroush and Rawan's paper got accepted at ACM IMWUT 2022

SmokeMon: Unobtrusive Extraction of Smoking Topography Using Wearable Energy-Efficient Thermal

Sep 28
2022
Soroush's paper got accepted at IEEE BHI-BSN 2022

SmartAct: Energy Efficient and Real-Time Hand-to-Mouth Gesture Detection Using Wearable RGB-T

Aug 2
2022
Boyang's paper got accepted at JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2022

Predicting the Next-Day Perceived and Physiological Stress of Pregnant Women by Using Machine Learning and Explainability: Algorithm Development and Validation

Aug 1
2021
Dr. Alshurafa receives NIH R01 Award from NIDDK

EAT: A Reliable Eating Assessment Technology for Free-living Individuals.

Apr 1
2021
Dr. Alshurafa receives NIH R03 Award from NIDDK

WildCam: A Privacy Conscious Wearable Eating Detection Camera People will Actually Wear in the Wil

Oct 7
2020
Ubicomp Best Poster Award (Won By Landslide) for our paper VibroScale

VibroScale: Turning your smartphone into a weighing scale

Oct 6
2020
Dr. Alshurafa receives NIH R21 Award from NIBIB

BehaviorSight: Privacy enhancing wearable system to detect health risk behaviors in real-time

Oct 5
2020
Ubicomp Best Presentation Award (Runner-Up) for our paper NeckSense

NeckSense: A Multi-Sensor Necklace for Detecting Eating Activities in Free-Living Conditions

Sep 8
2019
Paper Accepted at ACM IMWUT (Ubicomp) 2019

To Mask or Not to Mask? Balancing Privacy with Visual Confirmation Utility in Activity-Oriented Wearable Cameras

Sep 3
2019
Paper Accepted at ACM IMWUT (Ubicomp) 2019

Micro-Stress EMA: A Passive Sensing Framework for Detecting in-the-wild Stress in Pregnant Mothers

Jun 3
2019
Dr. Alshurafa receives NSF EAGER Award

EAGER: SaTC: Early-Stage Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Privacy Enhancing Framework to Advance Behavior Models

Sep 8
2018
Paper Accepted at ACM IMWUT (Ubicomp) 2018

Is More Always Better?: Discovering Incentivized mHealth Intervention Engagement Related to Health Behavior

Jul 8
2018
Paper Accepted at ACM IMWUT (Ubicomp) 2018

I Can't Be Myself: Effects ofWearable Cameras on the Capture of Authentic Behavior in the Wild

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