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New mHealth course bridges Preventive Medicine and Computer Science

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/march/new-medical-tech-projects-produced-in-engineering-course/
http://btn.com/2017/03/20/how-a-northwestern-course-gets-engineering-students-to-think-medically-btn-livebig/

Best Paper Award at IEEE PerCom: WristSense, 2017

UStress: Understanding College Student Subjective Stress Using Wrist-Based Passive Sensing

Rawan Alharbi Presents at IEEE PerCom

Investigating Barriers and Facilitators to Wearable Adherence in Fine-Grained Eating Detection

Dzung Nguyen Presents at IEEE PerCom, 2017

SwallowNet: Recurrent Neural Network detects and characterized eating patterns

JAMA Article Published

First Steps Into the Brave New Transdiscipline of Mobile Health
Full article at: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2592964

Paper accepted at IEEE Percom 2016

UStress: Understanding College Student Subjective Stress Using Wrist-Based Passive Sensing
DeepSwallows: Recurrent Neural Network Detects and Characterizes Eating Patterns
Investigating Barriers and Facilitators to Wearable Adherence in Fine-Grained Eating Detection

Best Paper Award at BODYNETS 2016

Food Watch: Detecting and Characterizing Eating Episodes through Feeding Gestures

Papers accepted at BODYNETS 2016

Food Watch: Detecting and Characterizing Eating Episodes through Feeding Gestures
SmartNecklace: Designing a Wearable Multi-sensor System for Smart Eating Detection

Paper accepted at ACM Wireless Health

Using a Mixed-Effects Location Scale Model to Examine Factors That Influence Overeating Behaviors Among College Students

Our paper is an Award Winner for The Obesity Society’s (TOS) eHealth/mHealth Section (EMS)

Random Forest detects eating in a neck-worn sensor: Results from a Simulated Real-Life Eating Setting.

Accepted papers at The Obesity Society (TOS)

  • Improved conceptual models of engagement in an mHealth intervention application.
  • Random Forests detects eating in a neck-worn sensor: Results from a Simulated Real-Life Eating Setting.
  • Machine Learning algorithms applied to detect feeding gestures

Accepted paper at IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)

An Iterative Dimensionality-Scaling System for Real-Time Health Monitoring Applications

Accepted paper at IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics (JBHI)

Remote Health Monitoring Outcome Success Prediction Using Baseline and First Month Intervention Data

Dr. Alshurafa journal featured in Popular Science!

Smart Necklace Analyzes What Goes Down Your Throat

Dr. Alshurafa mHealth interview featured by Cisco Network!

Mobile Health Study Uses Fitness App to Help At-Risk Women

Dr. Alshurafa anti-cheating algorithm used in UCLA mHealth project featured in LA Times

UCLA-backed m-health project aids at-risk women using fitness app