RECENT NEWS
2024
Our following papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Health Informatics, indexed by Scopus. Carvalho CF, Karunarathna T, Liang Z. (2025) Multiscale Entropy Analysis of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data: A Comparative Study of Diabetic and Healthy Populations. [21 Dec 2024]
Our following papers were published in the Proceedings of 2024 IEEE Consumer Life Tech Conference, indexed by Scopus. [11 Dec 2024]
Karunarathna T, Liang Z. (2024) Developing Consumer Wearable Compatible Computational Models for Non-Invasive Glucose Estimation in Diabetes Patients.
Ahmed H, Liang Z. (2024) CLOUDS: Seamless Mood Tracking on the Wrist.
Liang Z. (2024) Harnessing Consumer Smartwatches for Heart Rate Streaming in Unity Game Engine.
Our following paper was published in Proceedings of IEEE HealthCom 2024, indexed by SCI and Scopus. [18 Nov 2024]
Karunarathna T, Liang Z. (2024) Physiological Signal Based Blood Glucose Prediction in Diabetics and Non-Diabetics.
Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2024) Wearable-Friendly Apnea Severity Classification.
Priyadarshana YHPP, Liang Z, Piumarta I. (2024). Transferring Large Language Models for Depression Detection through Multi-Party Conversation Analysis.
Dr. Liang was invited to serve as an Associate Editor for a top journal in health informatics JMIR mHealth and uHealth. [21 Oct 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]
We provided 2 sessions of Capstone-Mini program to middle school students from Ikuei Nishi High School. [19 Sep 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]
We made the following presentation at the 6th World Symposium on Software Engineering. [14 Sep 2024]
Khotchasing K, Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2024) A Human-Computer Interaction Study of Smartwatch Application for Promoting Healthy Lifestyle.
Liang Z. (2024) Middleware Solution for Real-Time Physiological Data Streaming from Consumer Smartwatches.
We made the following presentation at the 4th International Conference on Big Data and Computational Intelligence. [14 Sep 2024]
Franca Carvalho C, Liang Z. (2024) Glucose Prediction with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Models.
Karunarathna ST, Liang Z. (2024) Glucose Estimation Models for Diabetes and Their Utility on Healthy Individuals.
We made the following presentation at the VIII Biennial Meeting of the Society for functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS 2024). Saskovets M, Liang Z, Piumarta I. (2024) The Utility of fNIRS for Evaluating Human Voice Acoustics for Stress Management. [10 Sep 2024]
Our following paper was accepted by Sleep and Breathing, indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. Liang Z. (2024) Developing Probabilistic Ensemble Machine Learning Models for Home-Based Sleep Apnea Screening using Overnight SpO2 Data at Varying Data Granularity. [14 Aug 2024]
We made the following presentation at NEURO 2024, the joint meeting of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS), the 67th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry (JSN), the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Biological Psychiatry (JSBP), and the 8th Federation of Asian-Oceanian Neuroscience Societies (FAONS) Congress. Saskovets M, Liang Z, Piumarta I. (2024) The Effect of Soothing Human Voice on the Stress Response. [24 July 2024]
Dr. Liang provided a demo lecture on app development based on OpenAI in an webinar for Indian students, co-organized by KUAS and Education Japan. [20 July 2024]
We hosted an open lab event for visitors from our industrial collaborators. [17 July 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]
Our following paper was accepted in Frontiers in Education, indexed by SCI and Scopus. Liang Z. (2024) More Haste, Less Speed?: Relationship between Response Time and Response Accuracy in Gamified Online Quizzes in an Undergraduate Engineering Course. [3 June 2024]
Dr. Liang was invited to serve as an Associate Chair (AC) for the ACM CHI 2025 (Subcommittee: Health), a premier conference in the field of human-computer interaction. [31 May 2024]
Our following paper was accepted in Frontiers in Digital Health, indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. Priyadarshana YHPP, Senanayake A, Liang Z, Piumarta I. (2024) Prompt Engineering for Digital Mental Health: A Short Review. [28 May 2024]
We held open lab events for visitors from Thailand (high school students and teachers), Indonesia (high school students and teachers), Vietnam (high school students and teachers), US (undergraduate students from Ohio State University), and Brazil (members of SEMESP). [April - June 2024]
We provided Capstone-Mini program to visitors in seven Open Campus events. [March - Sep 2024]
Our following paper was accepted by JMIR Research Protocols, indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. Saskovets M, Liang Z, Piumarta I, Saponkova I. (2024) Effects of Sound Interventions on the Mental Stress Response in Adults: Protocol for A Scoping Review. [2 May 2024]
Our following paper will be published in the Proceedings of The 2nd Behavior Transformation by IoT International Workshop (BTIW 2024). Liang Z (2024) Exploring the Impact of Wearable Continuous Glucose Monitoring on Glucose Regulation and Eating Behavior in Healthy Individuals: A Pilot Study. [22 April 2024]
Our following paper was published in Frontiers in Digital Health, indexed by PubMed, SCI, and Scopus. Liang Z, Melcer E, Khotchasing K, Hoang HN. (2024) Co-design Personal Sleep Health Technology for and with University Students. [28 March 2024]
Our following proposal was selected as one of the finalists in the 2024 IEEE CIS Student Grand Competition. Yapa H. P. P. P. (2024) Vishadha: Early Smart Depression Detector. [25 March 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.
Our following paper will be published in the Proceedings of The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). Yapa H. P. P. P., Liang Z, Piumarta I. (2024) ProDepDet: Out-Of-Domain Knowledge Transfer of Pre-Trained Large Language Models for Depression Detection in Text-Based Multi-Party Conversations. [16 March 2024]
We presented the following work at the 12th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET 2024). Liang Z. (2024) Analysis of Students’ Response Time and Performance in Kahoot! Quiz Games in a University Engineering Course. [18 March 2024]
Our following short paper was published in the Proceedings of the 2024 General Conference of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers. [6 March 2024]
Kosasih K. K., Liang Z. (2024) Predicting heart rate from pupilometric data.
Kosasih K. K. (2024) A multi modal dataset of eye tracking and other physiologlcal measures.
Our following papers were published in the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2024). [23 Feb 2024]
Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2024) Apnea hypopnea index estimation from low-granularity overnight oxymetry data.
Hoang HN, Khotchasing K, Melcer E, Liang Z. (2024) Serious gamification app for improving sleep-wake cycle and sleep education.
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]
Dr. Liang attended the ACM CHI 2024 Program Committee meeting as an Associate Chair of the HEALTH subcommittee. [16 Jan 2024]
Dr. Liang gave a lecture on data analytics for wearable technology in the MS&AD Digital College from Kyoto, a customized employee training and development program for the MS&AD Insurance Group. [15 Jan 2024]
Dr. Liang provided a demo lecture on app development based on OpenAI in an webinar for Indian students, co-organized by KUAS and Education Japan. [13 Jan 2024]
We hosted an open lab event for visitors from our industrial collaborators. [10 Jan 2024]