NEWS

• Our following papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 2025 ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. Liang Z, Hwang D, Chen S, Hoang NH, Khotchasing K, Melcer EF. User Preferences for Interaction Timing in Smartwatch Sleep Hygiene Games. (Acceptance rate = 10%) [17 Jan 2025]

• Our PhD student Ms. Nhung Huyen Hoang won the Best Doctoral Candidate Project Award at the Doctoral Consortium at the  17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2024) for the project "Serious Gamification App for Improving Sleep-Wake Cycle and Sleep Education". [9 Jan 2025]

• Our following papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Health Informatics, indexed by Scopus. [8 Jan 2025]

  • Kosasih KK, Karlsson DC, Karunarathna TS, Liang Z. (2025) Eyes as Windows to the Heart: Predicting Heart Rate from Pupillometric Features.

  • Carvalho CF, Karunarathna T, Liang Z. (2025) Multiscale Entropy Analysis of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data: A Comparative Study of Diabetic and Healthy Populations.

  • Hoang N, Liang Z. (2025) Reconsidering AHI as an Indicator of Sleep Apnea Severity: Insights from Mining Large, Longitudinal Sleep Datasets.

  • Senanayake A, Liang Z. (2025) Anxiety Detection in Reddit Posts through Emotion Dynamics Analysis.

  • Liang Z. (2025) Assessing Dietary Protein Intake: A Comparative Study of Two Consumer Mail-In Nutrition Test Kits​.

• Dr. Liang was invited to serve as an Associate Editor for JMIR mHealth and uHealth, a top journal in health informatics and digital health. [21 Oct 2024 ]

• Our master student Mr. Cleber Franca Carvalho received a Best Presentation Award at the 4th International Conference on Big Data and Computational Intelligence (BDCI 2024) for the presentation entitled "Glucose Prediction with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Models". [14 Sep 2024]

• Dr. Liang received a Best Presentation Award at the 6th World Symposium on Software Engineering (WSSE 2024) for the presentation entitled "Middleware Solution for Real-Time Physiological Data Streaming from Consumer Smartwatches". [14 Sep 2024]

• Our following paper was published by JMIR Serious Games, indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. ​Liang Z, Melcer EF, Khotchasing K, Chen S, Hwang D, Hoang NH. Game On for Zzz’s: The Role of Relevance in Shaping Perceptions of Sleep Hygiene Games Among University Students. [23 Sep 2024]

• Our PhD student Mr. Yapa Prasan won an Honorable Mention Award at the 2024 IEEE CIS Student Grand Competition in Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine and Healthcare, with the following project Vishadha: Early Smart Depression Detector .  [30 June 2024]

• Dr. Liang provided a lecture entitled "薬ではない“薬”～デジタル健康の最前線～ (“Medicine” that is not a medicine ~frontiers of digital health~ )" on YumeNavi video stream platform to promote our research among high school students.​

• Dr. Liang and Mr. Yapa gave an invited talk at the Language & Semantic Technology Research Team (LST), Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AINRU), National Electronic & Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand. From smartwatches to social network services: digitalize health with ubiquitous and personal computing technologies. [18 Feb 2024]

• We organized a co-design workshop Gamified Smartwatch for Sleep Health Workshop, which was facilitated by Prof. Edward Melcer and was attended by 47 students. This workshop was a follow-up of the three co-design workshops that we had during the summer and fall of 2023 and aimed to further explore the interdisciplinary research field at the intersection of gamification, digital health, and human-computer interaction. Instagram / Facebook [22 Nov 2023]