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StoryEcho: A Narrative Mirroring Loop Generative Storytelling System for Picky-Eating Intervention
Yanuo Zhou, Jun Fang, Yuntao Wang +6
Picky eating can limit children's dietary variety and create tension in family feeding routines. Existing food-related technologies often focus on mealtime intervention or standalo…
SpeakSoftly: Scaffolding Nonviolent Communication in Intimate Relationships through LLM-Powered Just-In-Time Interventions
Ka I Chan, Hongbo Lan, Jun Fang +2
Conflicts are common in text-based communication, particularly in intimate relationships, where misunderstandings can easily escalate into verbal aggression. To address this, we pr…
Routine Computing: A Systematic Review of Sensing Daily Life Dimensions Towards Human-Centered Goals
Borislav Pavlov, Jiajin Li, Jun Fang +2
Human routines structure daily life, yet remain challenging for computational systems to understand. This paper presents the first systematic review of routine computing, a previou…
Earinter: A Closed-Loop System for Eating Pace Regulation with Just-in-Time Intervention Using Commodity Earbuds
Jun Fang, Ka I Chan, Xiyuxing Zhang +7
Rapid eating is common yet difficult to regulate in situ, partly because people seldom notice pace changes and sustained self-monitoring is effortful. We present Earinter, a commod…
PPG as a Bridge: Cross-Device Authentication for Smart Wearables with Photoplethysmography
Jiacheng Liu, Jiankai Tang, Guangye Zhao +8
As smart wearable devices become increasingly powerful and pervasive, protecting user privacy on these devices has emerged as a critical challenge. While existing authentication me…
ECVL-ROUTER: Scenario-Aware Routing for Vision-Language Models
Xin Tang, Youfang Han, Fangfei Gou +7
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel in diverse multimodal tasks. However, user requirements vary across scenarios, which can be categorized into fast response, high-quality output,…
VergeIO: Depth-Aware Eye Interaction on Glasses
Xiyuxing Zhang, Duc Vu, Chengyi Shen +3
There is growing industry interest in unobtrusive designs for electrooculography (EOG) sensing of eye gestures on glasses (e.g. JINS MEME and Apple eyewear). We present VergeIO, an…
A Review of Behavioral Closed-Loop Paradigm from Sensing to Intervention for Ingestion Health
Jun Fang, Yanuo Zhou, Ka I Chan +8
Ingestive behavior plays a critical role in health, yet many existing interventions remain limited to static guidance or manual self-tracking. With the increasing integration of se…
Exploring Reliable PPG Authentication on Smartwatches in Daily Scenarios
Jiankai Tang, Jiacheng Liu, Renling Tong +6
Photoplethysmography (PPG) Sensors, widely deployed in smartwatches, offer a simple and non-invasive authentication approach for daily use. However, PPG authentication faces reliab…
Unknown Word Detection for English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners Using Gaze and Pre-trained Language Models
Jiexin Ding, Bowen Zhao, Yuntao Wang +4
English as a Second Language (ESL) learners often encounter unknown words that hinder their text comprehension. Automatically detecting these words as users read can enable computi…
Modeling the Impact of Visual Stimuli on Redirection Noticeability with Gaze Behavior in Virtual Reality
Zhipeng Li, Yishu Ji, Ruijia Chen +4
While users could embody virtual avatars that mirror their physical movements in Virtual Reality, these avatars' motions can be redirected to enable novel interactions. Excessive r…
Computing with Smart Rings: A Systematic Literature Review
Zeyu Wang, Ruotong Yu, Xiangyang Wang +13
A smart ring is a wearable electronic device in the form of a ring that incorporates diverse sensors and computing technologies to perform a variety of functions. Designed for use…
The Homework Wars: Exploring Emotions, Behaviours, and Conflicts in Parent-Child Homework Interactions
Nan Gao, Yibin Liu, Xin Tang +8
Parental involvement in homework is a crucial aspect of family education, but it often triggers emotional strain and conflicts. Despite growing concern over its impact on family we…
CasualGaze: Towards Modeling and Recognizing Casual Gaze Behavior for Efficient Gaze-based Object Selection
Yingtian Shi, Yukang Yan, Zisu Li +4
We present CasualGaze, a novel eye-gaze-based target selection technique to support natural and casual eye-gaze input. Unlike existing solutions that require users to keep the eye-…
SonarWatch: Field sensing technique for smartwatches based on ultrasound and motion
Yingtian Shi, Chun Yu, Xuyang Lu +3
A smartwatch worn continuously on the wrist has the potential to perceive rich interactive gestures and natural behaviors of the user. Unfortunately, the current interaction functi…
The Odyssey Journey: Top-Tier Medical Resource Seeking for Specialized Disorder in China
Ka I Chan, Siying Hu, Yuntao Wang +3
It is pivotal for patients to receive accurate health information, diagnoses, and timely treatments. However, in China, the significant imbalanced doctor-to-patient ratio intensifi…
G-VOILA: Gaze-Facilitated Information Querying in Daily Scenarios
Zeyu Wang, Yuanchun Shi, Yuntao Wang +6
Modern information querying systems are progressively incorporating multimodal inputs like vision and audio. However, the integration of gaze -- a modality deeply linked to user in…
Time2Stop: Adaptive and Explainable Human-AI Loop for Smartphone Overuse Intervention
Adiba Orzikulova, Han Xiao, Zhipeng Li +7
Despite a rich history of investigating smartphone overuse intervention techniques, AI-based just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) methods for overuse reduction are lacking. W…
Critiquing Self-report Practices for Human Mental and Wellbeing Computing at Ubicomp
Nan Gao, Soundariya Ananthan, Chun Yu +2
Computing human mental and wellbeing is crucial to various domains, including health, education, and entertainment. However, the reliance on self-reporting in traditional research…
Leveraging Large Language Models for Generating Mobile Sensing Strategies in Human Behavior Modeling
Nan Gao, Zhuolei Yu, Yue Xu +4
Mobile sensing plays a crucial role in generating digital traces to understand human daily lives. However, studying behaviours like mood or sleep quality in smartphone users requir…
UbiPhysio: Support Daily Functioning, Fitness, and Rehabilitation with Action Understanding and Feedback in Natural Language
Chongyang Wang, Yuan Feng, Lingxiao Zhong +8
We introduce UbiPhysio, a milestone framework that delivers fine-grained action description and feedback in natural language to support people's daily functioning, fitness, and reh…
EarCough: Enabling Continuous Subject Cough Event Detection on Hearables
Xiyuxing Zhang, Yuntao Wang, Jingru Zhang +3
Cough monitoring can enable new individual pulmonary health applications. Subject cough event detection is the foundation for continuous cough monitoring. Recently, the rapid growt…
GazeReader: Detecting Unknown Word Using Webcam for English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners
Jiexin Ding, Bowen Zhao, Yuqi Huang +2
Automatic unknown word detection techniques can enable new applications for assisting English as a Second Language (ESL) learners, thus improving their reading experiences. However…
Enabling Voice-Accompanying Hand-to-Face Gesture Recognition with Cross-Device Sensing
Zisu Li, Cheng Liang, Yuntao Wang +5
Gestures performed accompanying the voice are essential for voice interaction to convey complementary semantics for interaction purposes such as wake-up state and input modality. I…