In this UbiComp 2018 workshop, we are hoping to bring researchers together to discuss requirements, opportunities, challenges and next steps in developing novel approaches for sensing and intervention in the context of mental health.
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Mental health issues affect a significant portion of the world's population and can result in debilitating and life-threatening outcomes. To address this increasingly pressing healthcare challenge, there is a need to research novel approaches for early detection and prevention. Toward this, ubiquitous systems can play a central role in revealing and tracking clinically relevant behaviors, contexts, and symptoms. Further, such systems can passively detect relapse onset and enable the opportune delivery of effective intervention strategies.
However, despite their clear potential, the uptake of ubiquitous technologies into clinical mental healthcare is rare, and a number of challenges still face the overall efficacy of such technology-based solutions. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in identifying, articulating, and addressing such issues and opportunities. Following the success of this workshop in the last two years, we aim to continue facilitating the UbiComp community in developing novel approaches for sensing and intervention in the context of mental health.
We invite submissions in the areas and intersections of mental health, well-being, ubiquitous computing, and human-centered design, including but not limited to:
Design and implementation of computational platforms (e.g., mobile phones, instrumented homes, skin-patch sensors) to collect health and well-being data.
Investigating new methodologies for intervention (e.g., conversational agents, AR and VR applications).
Automated inference from sensor data of high-level contexts (e.g., environmental, social) indicative of mental health status.
Design and implementation of feedback (e.g., reports, visualizations, proactive behavioral interventions, subtle or subconscious interventions) for both patients and caregivers.
Development of robust behavioral models that can handle data sparsity and mislabeling issues.
Integration of multimodal data from different sensor streams for personalized predictive modeling.
Methods for sustaining user adherence and engagement over long periods of time.
Devising privacy-preserving strategies for data collection, analysis, and management.
Deployment in low-income communities and countries.
Identifying ways to better integrate ubiquitous technologies into existing healthcare infrastructures and government policy.
Submission deadline: July 20th, 2018 (11:59 PM PDT)
Decisions to authors: August 8th, 2018
Camera-ready deadline: August 15th, 2018
Regular (up to 9 pages) or short (up to 5 pages) paper using SIGCHI Extended Abstract format. Papers should be in PDF format and not anonymized.
Submissions can be made at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mhsi2018.
All accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library as part of the UbiComp conference supplemental proceedings. Papers will be reviewed by the workshop's technical program committee according to criteria regarding a submission's quality, relevance to the workshop's topics, and, foremost, its potential to spark discussions about directions, insights, and solutions in the context of mental health, sensing, and intervention. Research papers, case studies, and position papers are all welcome.
In particular, we encourage authors to keep the following options in mind when preparing submissions:
Works-In-Progress: To facilitate sharing of thought-provoking ideas and high-potential though preliminary research, authors are welcome to make submissions describing early-stage, in-progress, and/or exploratory work in order to elicit feedback, discover collaboration opportunities, and generally spark discussion.
Special Issue on Computing and Mental Health in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR): When submitting to the workshop, authors will have the option to specify if they would like an expanded version of their paper to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming special issue in JMIR dedicated to the topic of computing and mental health. Authors selected for inclusion would then be invited to expand their workshop submission to a full length manuscript of no more than 7,500 words, due in mid-Fall 2018. This JMIR special issue will also include manuscripts produced through a similar solitication from the related workshop on Computing and Mental Health held annually at CHI.
| Time | Event |
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| 9:30–10:00 | Correlations between objective behavioral features and depression (Jakob E. Bardram) |
| 10:00–10:30 | Paper presentations
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| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00–12:00 | Poster session |
| 12:00–13:30 | Mentoring lunch with organizers and senior researchers |
| 13:30–14:00 | From mobile phone based monitoring and prediction of depressive states to data-driven behaviour interventions (Mirco Musolesi) |
| 14:00–16:00 (coffee break at 15:00) |
Focused session and group discussion Potential themes:
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| 16:00–17:30 | Discussion Potential topics:
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| 17:30–17:40 | Closing remarks |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
Hane Aung, Cornell University
Jean Costa, Cornell University
Szymon Fedor, MIT
Asma Ghandeharioun, MIT
Javier Hernandez Rivera, MIT
Hirohiko Suwa, NAIST
Sara Taylor, MIT
Mizumoto Teruhiro, NAIST
Terumi Umematsu, MIT/NEC Corporation
Oliver Wilder, MIT
