Megha Majumder!

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BeWell: A Smartphone Application to Monitor, Model and Promote Wellbeing!
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a. They are trying to help people manage overall welling by developing and now testing BeWell,
a personal health application for smartphones. The application monitors multiple dimensions of
behavior and takes into account user feedback in order to call attention to how different aspects
of lifestyle affect the user’s wellbeing. !
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b. They collect data from the users and build a model to see if wellbeing can be predicted from
the data that the application collects (via monitoring a person’s physical activity, social
interaction and sleep patterns; from those predictions, they try to provide feedback that lets!
users to manage these key aspects of their health. !
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c. First, they benchmarked the resource consumption of BeWell operating on an Android Nexus
One phone to prove that it can be deployed on a smartphone. Then, they examined the
accuracy of the behavior monitoring through a five person experiment. Then, they showed the
wellbeing scores which was data collected over one week by users.!
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CrossCheck: Toward passive sensing and detection of mental health changes in people with
schizophrenia!
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a. They are trying to passively monitor mental health indicators in patients with schizophrenia
and to predict relapse and encourage early intervention!
b. They collect data from m 21 outpatients with schizophrenia recently discharged from
hospital and build a model, CrossCheck, that helps to predict relapse from patterns and
correlations between trackable behavioral features related to sleep, mobility, conversations,
smartphone usage and self-reported indicators of mental health in schizophrenia, and
relapse. They used those patterns to make predictions.!
c. They monitored and measured trackable behavioral features related to sleep, mobility,
conversations, smartphone usage and self-reported indicators of mental health in
schizophrenia and found that predicted mental health indicators (i.e., aggregated EMA
scores) strongly correlates with ground-truth, with r = 0.89, p < 0.001 and MAE = 2.29 so the
predictive power of participants’ data does stand as support for CrossCheck.!
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Characterizing and Predicting Postpartum Depression from Shared Facebook Data!
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a. They try to characterize postnatal experiences to predict PPD!
b. They collect Facebook data shared voluntarily by 165 new mothers as streams of evidence to
attempt to characterize postnatal experiences then characterize PPD.!
c. They try to detecting and predicting onset of post-partum depression (PPD) by taking into
account multiple measures from the Facebook streams, including activity, social capital,
emotion, and linguistic style in participants’ Facebook data in pre- and postnatal periods. !
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Exploring Time-Dependent Concerns about Pregnancy and Childbirth from Search Logs!
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a. They try to show how it’s possible to detect and align web search behavior for a population
of searchers with the natural clock of gestational physiology !
b. They collect data from proxies for ground truth based on searchers’ self-report queries to
see if they can build a model that might tailor responses to point estimates of searcher’s
current stage in pregnancy. !
c. They have a general query log dataset, a methodology for building a set of searchers who
present strong evidence suggesting that they are pregnant, and show finally how users’
query histories are aligned with the gestational weeks of pregnancy.