Large-scale Estimation of People’s Moods using Web Search Queries and Mobile Sensor Data

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Focusing on the emotional state which is closely related to the rationality states, we constructed machine learning models to estimate the emotional state (mood score) from the user’s search keywords by combining (1) values obtained from various sensors on smartphones, (2) self-reported subjective data obtained through the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), and (3) search keywords …

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Attention Management: AI Estimates Optimal Timing for Push Notifications

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In today’s ubiquitous computing environment where users carry, manipulate, and interact with an increasing number of networked devices, applications and web services, human attention is the new bottleneck in computing. It is therefore important to minimize a user’s mental effort due to notifications, especially in situations where users are mobile and using multiple wearable and …

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Detecting Emotional Eating with Mobile Computing

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Eating behavior influenced by stress and emotional changes is called emotional eating. The reasons of emotional eating are autonomic nervous system and hormone imbalance due to stress and lifestyle disturbance. Therefore, it is possible to predict the occurrence of emotional eating by continuously observing and analyzing the activity level of the autonomic nervous system and …

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