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

204 citations · 484 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 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…

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…

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.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…

q-bio.QM2022★ 21 cited

Associations between depression symptom severity and daily-life gait characteristics derived from long-term acceleration signals in real-world settings

Yuezhou Zhang, Amos A Folarin, Shaoxiong Sun +27

Gait is an essential manifestation of depression. Laboratory gait characteristics have been found to be closely associated with depression. However, the gait characteristics of dai…

stat.ML2021★ 78 cited

Predicting Depressive Symptom Severity through Individuals' Nearby Bluetooth Devices Count Data Collected by Mobile Phones: A Preliminary Longitudinal Study

Yuezhou Zhang, Amos A Folarin, Shaoxiong Sun +21

The Bluetooth sensor embedded in mobile phones provides an unobtrusive, continuous, and cost-efficient means to capture individuals' proximity information, such as the nearby Bluet…

cs.HC2021★ 10 cited

Remote smartphone-based speech collection: acceptance and barriers in individuals with major depressive disorder

Judith Dineley, Grace Lavelle, Daniel Leightley +22

The ease of in-the-wild speech recording using smartphones has sparked considerable interest in the combined application of speech, remote measurement technology (RMT) and advanced…

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…