ARCHIVED NEWS 2021

Our following full paper was published in the Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, the flagship conference of the IEEE Education Society. Liang Z., Nishi M., Kishida I. (2021) Teaching Android app development to first year undergraduates: textual programming or visual programming? (presentated by Dr. Liang at TALE 2021) [5 Dec 2021]
Our following full paper was published in the Frontiers in Computer Science (section: Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing). Liang Z (2021) What does sleeping brain tell about stress? A pilot fNIRS study into stress-related cortical hemodynamic features during sleep. [2 Dec 2021]
Dr. Liang provided a technical consulting session for the NHK Enterprise related to the experiment design for examining the potential emotional and cognitive effect of roses. [2 Dec 2021]
Our following paper was published in the Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2021). Liang Z. (2021) An N-of-1 investigation into stress-related hemodynamics in the prefrontal cortex during the first sleep cycle. (presented by Dr. Liang at SMC 2021) [17 Oct 2021]
Our following short paper was published in the Proceedings of the IEEE 10th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2021). Sirithummarak P., Liang Z. (2021) Investigating the effect of feature distribution shift on the performance of sleep stage classification with consumer sleep trackers. (presented by Ms Sirithummarak at GCCE 2021) [12 Oct 2021]
Dr. Liang gave an invited talk on "Mobile and Wearable Computing for Studying Human Physiology and Behavior in the Wild" at the Human Augmentation Research Center, the National Institute of Industrial Science and Technology. [30 Sep 2021]
Our following short paper was published in the Proceedings of the 2021 Society Conference of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers. Sirithummarak P., Liang Z. (2021) Effect of feature distribution shift on sleep-wake classification with Apple watch. (presented by Ms Sirithummarak at GCCE 2021) [16 Sep 2021]
A big welcome to Mr KOSASIH Kristofer Kevin and Ms Hoàng Huyền Nhung for joining our lab. [8 Sep 2021]
Our following paper was published in the MDPI Engineering Proceedings. This is an achievement of two interns who completed a 3-month research project on eating activity recognition at the Ubiquitous and Personal Computing Lab of KUAS, under the exchange study program between KUASE and the Department of Computer Science, Université de Toulouse, France. Bertrand L, Cleyet-Marrel N, Liang Z. (2021) Recognizing eating activities in free-living environment using consumer wearable devices. (presented by Ms Bertrand at SS 2021) [20 Aug 2021]
Dr. Liang joined KUASE Dean Prof Tabata to present the progress of our project "EduBrAIn: Assist, Activate, and Amplify Brain Storming with AI" in the Higher Education DX Symposium 2021, which is part of the Scheem-D Initiative launched by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT). [30 July 2021]
Dr. Liang gave the following presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep Research. Liang Z. (2021) Association between bedtime stress level and hemodynamics in prefrontal cortex during sleep. [13 July 2021]
A big welcome to Mr. Naim Omar from the Department of Computer Science, Université de Toulouse, France. He will join the Ubiquitous and Personal Computing Lab remotely from June to August to work on a research project about machine learning in sleep stage classification. [1 June 2021]
Dr. Liang gave the following presentation at the 3rd Congress of Asian Society of Sleep Medicine. Liang Z. (2021) Self-rated sleep quality is associated with hemodynamics in prefrontal cortex in the first sleep cycle. [14 May 2021]
Our following full paper was published in the Frontiers in Digital Health journal (section: Health Informatics). Liang Z, Chapa-Martell MA. (2021) A multi-level classification approach for sleep stage prediction with processed data derived from consumer wearable activity trackers. [19 April 2021]
Our following research proposal was accepted by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientist (2021-2024, Amount: JPY 4,680,000, PI: Dr. Zilu Liang). New ubiquitous computing system uniting chaos theory and data science for sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) screening with wearable devices. [1 April 2021]
Our following short paper was published in the Proceedings of the IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies, indexed by IEEE Xplore and DBLP. Bertrand L, Cleyet-Marrel N, Liang Z. (2021) The role of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in automatic detection of eating activities. (presented by Ms Bertrand at LifeTech 2021) [9 March 2021]
Our following short paper will be published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Educational Technology. Liang Z. (2021) Reflection on an English-medium app development course. (presented by Dr. Liang) [6 March 2021]
Our following paper was published as a chapter in the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 362. Springer, Cham. Liang Z., Chapa-Martell MA. (2021) Validation of Omron wearable blood pressure monitor HeartGuide in free-living environments. In: Ye J., O'Grady M.J., Civitarese G., Yordanova K. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 362. Springer, Cham. (presented by Dr. Liang at MobiHealth 2020) [23 Feb 2021]
Dr. Liang joined KUASE Dean Prof Tabata to present our proposal "BrAIn: Assist, Activate, and Amplify Brain Storming using AI" in the Scheem-D Initiative launched by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT). We are one of the 10 teams selected from 104 submissions. [19 Feb 2021]
Dr. Liang received a Certificate of Appreciation from the IEEE Education Society for serving on the IEEE TALE 2020 Local Organizing Committee. [13 Jan 2021]