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20202025
most citedUsing smartphones and wearable devices to monitor behavioural changes during COVID-19

204 citations · 382 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2025

Multilingual Lexical Feature Analysis of Spoken Language for Predicting Major Depression Symptom Severity

Anastasiia Tokareva, Judith Dineley, Zoe Firth +19

Background: Remotely captured spoken language could provide objective, regular indicators of depression symptom severity. However, research to date has largely used non-clinical, c…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

A methodological framework and exemplar protocol for the collection and analysis of repeated speech samples

Nicholas Cummins, Lauren L. White, Zahia Rahman +8

Speech and language biomarkers have the potential to be regular, objective assessments of symptom severity in several health conditions, both in-clinic and remotely using mobile de…

stat.AP2024

Deciphering seasonal depression variations and interplays between weather changes, physical activity, and depression severity in real-world settings: Learnings from RADAR-MDD longitudinal mobile health study

Yuezhou Zhang, Amos A. Folarin, Yatharth Ranjan +20

Prior research has shown that changes in seasons and weather can have a significant impact on depression severity. However, findings are inconsistent across populations, and the in…

stat.AP2023

Longitudinal Assessment of Seasonal Impacts and Depression Associations on Circadian Rhythm Using Multimodal Wearable Sensing

Yuezhou Zhang, Amos A Folarin, Shaoxiong Sun +24

Objective: This study aimed to explore the associations between depression severity and wearable-measured circadian rhythms, accounting for seasonal impacts and quantifying seasona…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Identifying depression-related topics in smartphone-collected free-response speech recordings using an automatic speech recognition system and a deep learning topic model

Yuezhou Zhang, Amos A Folarin, Judith Dineley +25

Language use has been shown to correlate with depression, but large-scale validation is needed. Traditional methods like clinic studies are expensive. So, natural language processi…

cs.SD2023★ 5 cited

Towards robust paralinguistic assessment for real-world mobile health (mHealth) monitoring: an initial study of reverberation effects on speech

Judith Dineley, Ewan Carr, Faith Matcham +4

Speech is promising as an objective, convenient tool to monitor health remotely over time using mobile devices. Numerous paralinguistic features have been demonstrated to contain s…

q-bio.QM2022★ 45 cited

Challenges in Using mHealth Data From Smartphones and Wearable Devices to Predict Depression Symptom Severity: Retrospective Analysis

Shaoxiong Sun, Amos A. Folarin, Yuezhou Zhang +28

A number of challenges exist for the analysis of mHealth data: maintaining participant engagement over extended time periods and therefore understanding what constitutes an accepta…

cs.LG2022

Bayesian Networks for the robust and unbiased prediction of depression and its symptoms utilizing speech and multimodal data

Salvatore Fara, Orlaith Hickey, Alexandra Georgescu +3

Predicting the presence of major depressive disorder (MDD) using behavioural and cognitive signals is a highly non-trivial task. The heterogeneous clinical profile of MDD means tha…

cs.SD2022★ 2 cited

Detecting the Severity of Major Depressive Disorder from Speech: A Novel HARD-Training Methodology

Edward L. Campbell, Judith Dineley, Pauline Conde +7

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a common worldwide mental health issue with high associated socioeconomic costs. The prediction and automatic detection of MDD can, therefore, ma…

eess.SP2021★ 1 cited

Fitbeat: COVID-19 Estimation based on Wristband Heart Rate

Shuo Liu, Jing Han, Estela Laporta Puyal +26

This study investigates the potential of deep learning methods to identify individuals with suspected COVID-19 infection using remotely collected heart-rate data. The study utilise…

stat.AP2020★ 123 cited

The Relationship between Major Depression Symptom Severity and Sleep Collected Using a Wristband Wearable Device: Multi-centre Longitudinal Observational Study

Yuezhou Zhang, Amos A Folarin, Shaoxiong Sun +19

Research in mental health has implicated sleep pathologies with depression. However, the gold standard for sleep assessment, polysomnography, is not suitable for long-term, continu…

q-bio.QM2020★ 204 cited

Using smartphones and wearable devices to monitor behavioural changes during COVID-19

Shaoxiong Sun, Amos Folarin, Yatharth Ranjan +23

We aimed to explore the utility of the recently developed open-source mobile health platform RADAR-base as a toolbox to rapidly test the effect and response to NPIs aimed at limiti…