Z. Fan, Xuan Song, R. Shibasaki, Tao Li, H. Kaneda
{"title":"CityCoupling: bridging intercity human mobility","authors":"Z. Fan, Xuan Song, R. Shibasaki, Tao Li, H. Kaneda","doi":"10.1145/2971648.2971737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971737","url":null,"abstract":"There are two broad categories of citywide human mobility, routine, composed of daily or periodic travel, and rare, which occurs during events such as the Olympic Games or natural disasters. State-of-the-art studies have shown that routine mobility patterns can be modeled stochastically, while rare human mobility modeling, essential to a variety of urban computing scenarios, such as emergency management and traffic regulation, is a much more challenging and understudied problem. Instead of training a rare-event-specific human mobility model, which suffers from the particularity of the rare events, in this paper we provide a new insight into rare events and propose a novel algorithm, CityCoupling, which establishes an intercity spatial mapping that uses human mobility in one city as input and reproduces human mobility in another city. More intuitively, we attempt to answer the question \"What if this rare event happened in another city?\". To find the optimal intercity spatial mapping, we utilize an expectation-maximization algorithm to estimate a probabilistic geographical correspondence matrix by regarding intercity trajectory matching as latent variables. Thereafter, a Gibbs sampling-based multiple hidden Markov model generates simulated trajectories. We apply our approach to a large mobile phone GPS dataset in Japan and determine the spatial mapping between Tokyo and Osaka to transfer the human mobility at the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake in Tokyo, which was heavily affected, to simulate what might have occurred if Osaka had been struck by the earthquake. We conduct the evaluation by assuming that New Year's Countdown is a rare event that occurs simultaneously in both Tokyo and Osaka, and thus we quantitatively compare our simulation with the ground truth in Osaka.","PeriodicalId":303792,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127825768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PrefMiner: mining user's preferences for intelligent mobile notification management","authors":"Abhinav Mehrotra, R. Hendley, Mirco Musolesi","doi":"10.1145/2971648.2971747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971747","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile notifications are increasingly used by a variety of applications to inform users about events, news or just to send alerts and reminders to them. However, many notifications are neither useful nor relevant to users' interests and, also for this reason, they are considered disruptive and potentially annoying. In this paper we present the design, implementation and evaluation of PrefMiner, a novel interruptibility management solution that learns users' preferences for receiving notifications based on automatic extraction of rules by mining their interaction with mobile phones. The goal is to build a system that is intelligible for users, i.e., not just a \"black-box\" solution. Rules are shown to users who might decide to accept or discard them at run-time. The design of PrefMiner is based on a large scale mobile notification dataset and its effectiveness is evaluated by means of an in-the-wild deployment.","PeriodicalId":303792,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129917737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexis Hiniker, Shwetak N. Patel, Tadayoshi Kohno, J. Kientz
{"title":"Why would you do that? predicting the uses and gratifications behind smartphone-usage behaviors","authors":"Alexis Hiniker, Shwetak N. Patel, Tadayoshi Kohno, J. Kientz","doi":"10.1145/2971648.2971762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971762","url":null,"abstract":"While people often use smartphones to achieve specific goals, at other times they use them out of habit or to pass the time. Uses and Gratifications Theory explains that users' motivations for engaging with technology can be divided into instrumental and ritualistic purposes. Instrumental uses of technology are goal-directed and purposeful, while ritualistic uses are habitual and diversionary. In this paper, we provide an empirical account of the nature of instrumental vs. ritualistic use of smartphones based on data collected from 43 Android users over 2 weeks through logging application use and collecting ESM survey data about the purpose of use. We describe the phone-use behaviors users exhibit when seeking instrumental and ritualistic gratifications, and we develop a classification scheme for predicting ritualistic vs. instrumental use with an accuracy of 77% for a general model, increasing to more than 97% with a sliding confidence threshold. We discuss how such a model might be used to improve the experience of smartphone users in application areas such as recommender systems and social media.","PeriodicalId":303792,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130110437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hao Wang, Daqing Zhang, Junyi Ma, Yasha Wang, Yuxiang Wang, Dan Wu, Tao Gu, Bing Xie
{"title":"Human respiration detection with commodity wifi devices: do user location and body orientation matter?","authors":"Hao Wang, Daqing Zhang, Junyi Ma, Yasha Wang, Yuxiang Wang, Dan Wu, Tao Gu, Bing Xie","doi":"10.1145/2971648.2971744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971744","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research has demonstrated the feasibility of detecting human respiration rate non-intrusively leveraging commodity WiFi devices. However, is it always possible to sense human respiration no matter where the subject stays and faces? What affects human respiration sensing and what's the theory behind? In this paper, we first introduce the Fresnel model in free space, then verify the Fresnel model for WiFi radio propagation in indoor environment. Leveraging the Fresnel model and WiFi radio propagation properties derived, we investigate the impact of human respiration on the receiving RF signals and develop the theory to relate one's breathing depth, location and orientation to the detectability of respiration. With the developed theory, not only when and why human respiration is detectable using WiFi devices become clear, it also sheds lights on understanding the physical limit and foundation of WiFi-based sensing systems. Intensive evaluations validate the developed theory and case studies demonstrate how to apply the theory to the respiration monitoring system design.","PeriodicalId":303792,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129787667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Choy, Daehoon Kim, Jae-Gil Lee, Heeyoung Kim, H. Motoda
{"title":"Looking back on the current day: interruptibility prediction using daily behavioral features","authors":"M. Choy, Daehoon Kim, Jae-Gil Lee, Heeyoung Kim, H. Motoda","doi":"10.1145/2971648.2971649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971649","url":null,"abstract":"When a person seeks another person's attention, it is of prime importance to assess how interruptible the other person is. Since smartphones are ubiquitously used as communication media these days, interruptibility prediction on smartphones has started to attract great interest from both academia and industry. Previous studies, in general, attempted to model interruptibility using the behaviors at the current moment and in the immediate past (e.g., 5 minutes before). However, a person's interruptibility at a certain moment is indeed affected by his/her preceding behaviors for several reasons. Motivated by this long-term effect, in this paper we propose a novel methodology of extracting features based on past behaviors from smartphone sensor data. The primary difference from previous studies is that we systematically consider a longer history of up to a day in addition to the current point and the immediate past. To represent behaviors in a day accurately and compactly, our methodology divides a day into multiple timeslots and then, for each timeslot, derives relevant features such as the temporal shapes of the time series of the sensor data. In order to verify the advantage of our methodology, we collected a data set of smartphone usage from 25 participants for four weeks and obtained a license to a large-scale public data set constructed from 907 users over approximately nine months. The experimental results on the two data sets show that looking back to the beginning of the current day improves prediction accuracy by up to 16% and 7%, respectively, compared with the baseline and state-of-the-art methods.","PeriodicalId":303792,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129849506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WalkieLokie: sensing relative positions of surrounding presenters by acoustic signals","authors":"Wenchao Huang, Xiangyang Li, Yan Xiong, Panlong Yang, Yiqing Hu, Xufei Mao, Fuyou Miao, Baohua Zhao, Jumin Zhao","doi":"10.1145/2971648.2971655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971655","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose and implement WalkieLokie, a novel acoustic-based relative positioning system. WalkieLokie facilitates a multitude of Augmented Reality (AR) applications: users with smart devices can passively acquire surrounding information in real time, similar to the commercial AR system Wikitude; the surrounding presenters, who want to share information or introduce themselves, can actively launch the function on demand. The key rational of WalkieLokie is that a user can perceive a series of spatial-related acoustic signals emitted from a presenter, which depicts the relation position between the user and the presenter. The proliferation of smart devices, together with the cheap accessory (e.g., dummy speaker) embedded in daily used items (e.g., smart clothes), paves the way for WalkieLokie applications. We design a novel algorithm to estimate the position and signal processing methods to support accurate positioning. The experiment results show that the mean error of ranging and direction estimation is 0.63m and 2.46 degrees respectively. Extensive experiments conducted in noisy environments validate the robustness of WalkieLokie.","PeriodicalId":303792,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120936878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UniPass: design and evaluation of a smart device-based password manager for visually impaired users","authors":"N. Barbosa, Jordan Hayes, Yang Wang","doi":"10.1145/2971648.2971722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971722","url":null,"abstract":"Visually impaired users face various challenges in web authentication. We designed UniPass, an accessible password manager for visually impaired users based on a smart device. To evaluate UniPass, we tested and compared UniPass with two commercial password managers: LastPass, a popular password manager and StrongPass, a smart device-based password manager. Our study results of ten users, six blind and four with low vision, suggest that password managers are a promising authentication approach for visually impaired users. Participants using UniPass had the highest task completion rate and took the shortest time to complete an authentication related task. Furthermore, the majority (seven out of ten) of our participants preferred UniPass over LastPass and StrongPass.","PeriodicalId":303792,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123359000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Wang, William Li, Doug Hawkins, T. Gernsheimer, C. Norby-Slycord, Shwetak N. Patel
{"title":"HemaApp: noninvasive blood screening of hemoglobin using smartphone cameras","authors":"E. Wang, William Li, Doug Hawkins, T. Gernsheimer, C. Norby-Slycord, Shwetak N. Patel","doi":"10.1145/2971648.2971653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971653","url":null,"abstract":"We present HemaApp, a smartphone application that noninvasively monitors blood hemoglobin concentration using the smartphone's camera and various lighting sources. Hemoglobin measurement is a standard clinical tool commonly used for screening anemia and assessing a patient's response to iron supplement treatments. Given a light source shining through a patient's finger, we perform a chromatic analysis, analyzing the color of their blood to estimate hemoglobin level. We evaluate HemaApp on 31 patients ranging from 6 -- 77 years of age, yielding a 0.82 rank order correlation with the gold standard blood test. In screening for anemia, HemaApp achieve a sensitivity and precision of 85.7% and 76.5%. Both the regression and classification performance compares favorably with our control, an FDA-approved noninvasive hemoglobin measurement device. We also evaluate and discuss the effect of using different kinds of lighting sources.","PeriodicalId":303792,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131990893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chandrashekhar Lavania, S. Thulasidasan, A. LaMarca, Jeffrey Scofield, J. Bilmes
{"title":"A weakly supervised activity recognition framework for real-time synthetic biology laboratory assistance","authors":"Chandrashekhar Lavania, S. Thulasidasan, A. LaMarca, Jeffrey Scofield, J. Bilmes","doi":"10.1145/2971648.2971716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971716","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the design of a hybrid system -- a combination of a Dynamic Graphical Model (DGM) with a Deep Neural Network (DNN) -- to identify activities performed during synthetic biology experiments. The purpose is to provide real-time feedback to experimenters, thus helping to reduce human errors and improve experimental reproducibility. The data consists of unlabeled videos of recorded experiments and \"weakly supervised\" information (i.e., \"theoretical\" and asynchronous knowledge of sets of high level activity sequences in the experiment) used to train the system. Multiple activity sequences are modeled using a trellis, and deep features are extracted from video images. Model performance is accessed using real-time online statistical inference. The trellis incorporates variations during experiment execution, making our model very general and capable of high performance.","PeriodicalId":303792,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131092303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu Huang, Haoyi Xiong, Kevin Leach, Yuyan Zhang, Philip I. Chow, Karl C. Fua, B. Teachman, Laura E. Barnes
{"title":"Assessing social anxiety using gps trajectories and point-of-interest data","authors":"Yu Huang, Haoyi Xiong, Kevin Leach, Yuyan Zhang, Philip I. Chow, Karl C. Fua, B. Teachman, Laura E. Barnes","doi":"10.1145/2971648.2971761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971761","url":null,"abstract":"Mental health problems are highly prevalent and appear to be increasing in frequency and severity among the college student population. The upsurge in mobile and wearable wireless technologies capable of intense, longitudinal tracking of individuals, provide valuable opportunities to examine temporal patterns and dynamic interactions of key variables in mental health research. In this paper, we present a feasibility study leveraging non-invasive mobile sensing technology to passively assess college students' social anxiety, one of the most common disorders in the college student population. We have first developed a smartphone application to continuously track GPS locations of college students, then we built an analytic infrastructure to collect the GPS trajectories and finally we analyzed student behaviors (e.g. studying or staying at home) using Point-Of-Interest (POI). The whole framework supports intense, longitudinal, dynamic tracking of college students to evaluate how their anxiety and behaviors change in the college campus environment. The collected data provides critical information about how students' social anxiety levels and their mobility patterns are correlated. Our primary analysis based on 18 college students demonstrated that social anxiety level is significantly correlated with places students' visited and location transitions.","PeriodicalId":303792,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131180848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}