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2022

• Dr. Liang provided a demo lecture to girls from the Notre Dame High School. [13 March 2023]

• Our following short papers were published in the Proceedings of the 2023 General Conference of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.  [6 March 2023] 

  • Nhung H. H., Liang Z. (2023) Identifying Patterns in Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data using Contrast Set Mining.
  • Liang Z. (2023) Gamifying Digital Signal Processing Learning with Kahoot! Quiz.

• Our following paper was ublished in the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Health Informatics, indexed by SCI and Scopus. Nhung H. H., Liang Z. (2023) Contrast set mining for actionable insights into associations between sleep and glucose in a normoglycemic population. [23 Feb 2023] 

• Dr. Liang gave a planary talk entitled "Ubiquitous and personal computing for health and wellbeing" at the International Seminar on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science held in Indonesia.  [22 Dec 2022]

• Our master student Ms Hoàng Huyền Nhung won an Honorable Mention Award of the 2022 IEEE CIS Student Hackathon on Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine and Healthcare, with the following project "Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor wearable device with a smartphone application for Parkinson’s disease falls prevention".  [6 Dec 2022]

• ​Our following full paper was published in the Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, the flagship conference of the IEEE Education Society. Liang Z. (2022) Contextualizing introductory app development course for first-year engineering students. [6 Dec 2022]

• ​Our following full paper was published in Frontiers in Medical Technology (Section: Medtech Data Analytics). Liang Z. (2022) Mining associations between glycemic variability in awake-time and in-sleep among non-diabetic adults. [4 Nov 2022]

• Our master student Ms Hoàng Huyền Nhung entered the final of the 2022 IEEE CIS Student Hackathon on Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine and Healthcare. [1 Nov 2022]

• A big welcome to Ms Alena Lukovnikova and Ms Hannah Jayne, two exchange students from the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA. They will stay at KUAS from October to December to work on a research project about sleep apnea detection with consumer wearable technologies. [25 Oct 2022]

• Our following full paper was published in Electronics. Liang Z. (2022) Context-aware sleep health recommender systems (CASHRS): a narrative review. [19 Oct 2022]

• Our following short paper was published in the Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE 11th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2022). Tanaka D., Tanaka J., Ikuru K., Liang Z., Piumarta I. (2022) AkiKomi: Design and Implementation of a Mobile App System for Real-Time Room Occupancy Estimation. [18 Oct 2022]

• Our following preprint is available in JMIR Preprint. Nhung, H. H., Liang Z. (2022) Knowledge discovery in ubiquitous and personal sleep-tracking: a scoping review. [26 Sep 2022]

• Welcome two PhD students Mr YAPA HETTI PATHIRANNAHALAGE Prasan Priyadarshana and Ms SASKOVETS Marina for joining our lab. [8 Sep 2022]

• Dr. Liang gave the following presentation at the IFIP 2022 World Conference on Computers in Education. Liang Z. (2022) Changes in attitude towards mobile app development: a preliminary comparison between MIT App Inventor and Android Studio. [23 Aug 2022] 

• Dr. Liang provide a demo lecture to high school girls from the Kyoto Koka Women's High School. [22 Aug 2022]

• Dr. Liang provided a demo lecture to junior high school students at the Shinagawa Shouei Junior High School in Tokyo. [29 July 2022]

• ​Dr. Liang provided a demo lecture to senior high school students at the Shinagawa Shouei Senior High School in Tokyo. [28 July 2022]

• Dr. Liang provided a demo lecture to senior high school students from the Kamiichi High School of Toyama Prefecture. [7 July 2022]

• Dr. Liang gave ​​the following presentation at the 47th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep Research. This presentation was nominated (= top 12.5%) for the Best Presentation Award. Liang Z. (2022) Mining associations between Fitbit measured sleep structure and subsequent daytime glycemia patterns. [1 July 2022]

• ​Our following preprint is available in MDPI Preprint. Liang Z. (2022) Context-aware sleep health recommender systems (CASHRS): a narrative review. [5 May 2022]

• ​​Our following paper was published in IoT Technologies for Health Care: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Liang Z. (2022) Not just a matter of accuracy: a fNIRS pilot study into discrepancy between sleep data and subjective sleep experience in quantified-self sleep tracking.  [23 March 2022]

• Our following short paper was published in the Proceedings of the IEEE 4th Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies, indexed by Scopus, IEEE Xplore and DBLP. Liang Z. (2022) Correlation analysis of nested consumer health data: a new look at an old problem. [9 March 2022]

• Dr. Liang was invited to participate the Interstellar Initiative Alumni Program, co-funded by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) & The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). She teamed up with Dr. Edward Melcer (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Dr. Carolyn Parsey (University of Washington) to develop a novel gamification system for personalized management of mild cognitive impairment, under the mentorship of Profs. Hiroki Ueda (The University of Tokyo), Haruhiko Bito (The University of Tokyo), Suzie Chen (Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School), Toshio Suda (National University of Singapore). [22-23 Feb 2022]

• Our following full paper was published in the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Health Informatics, indexed by Scopus. Liang Z., Nhung H. H., Bertrand L., Cleyet-Marrel, N. (2022) Context-aware sleep analysis with intraday steps and heart rate time series data from consumer activity trackers.(Acceptance rate of full papers = 23%; presented by Ms. Hoang at HEALTHINF 2022). [2 Feb 2022]

• Dr. Liang was invited to give a plenary talk "Machine learning and data mining in consumer health informatics"at the International Seminar on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science. [29 Jan 2022]

• ​​Our following paper was published in the Proceedings of the International Seminar on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, indexed by Scopus and IEEE Xplore. Liang Z. (2022) Association rules mining on multimodal quantified-self data. (presented by Dr. Liang at ISMODE 2022)[29 Jan 2022]

• ​​Our following full paper was published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. This is a collaboration with Dr. Bernd Ploderer at the Queensland University of Technology. Ploderer B., Rodgers S., Liang Z (2022) What’s keeping teens up at night? Reflecting on sleep and technology habits with teens. [28 Jan 2022]

• Dr. Liang provided 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. [21 Jan 2022]