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Health is a fundamental pillar of human wellness, and the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven the development of a new generation of health agents. However, the application of health agents to fulfill the diverse…

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We study the problem of designing AI agents that can robustly cooperate with people in human-machine partnerships. Our work is inspired by real-life scenarios in which an AI agent, e.g., a virtual assistant, has to cooperate with new users…

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Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are the most common model for decision making under uncertainty in the Machine Learning community. An MDP captures non-determinism, probabilistic uncertainty, and an explicit model of action. A Reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Alena Makarova , Houssam Abbas

Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly adopted to support patients' healthcare-seeking in recent years. While prior patient-centered studies have examined the capabilities and experience of LLM-based tools in specific…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yancheng Cao , Yishu Ji , Chris Yue Fu , Sahiti Dharmavaram , Meghan Turchioe , Natalie C Benda , Lena Mamykina , Yuling Sun , Xuhai "Orson" Xu

In the wake of the vast population of smart device users worldwide, mobile health (mHealth) technologies are hopeful to generate positive and wide influence on people's health. They are able to provide flexible, affordable and portable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Feiyun Zhu , Peng Liao , Xinliang Zhu , Yaowen Yao , Junzhou Huang

The rise of mobile health (mHealth) technologies has enabled real-time monitoring and intervention for mental health conditions using passively sensed smartphone data. Building on these capabilities, Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Nilesh Kumar Sahu , Aditya Sneh , Snehil Gupta , Haroon R Lone

Clinical machine learning applications are often plagued with confounders that can impact the generalizability and predictive performance of the learners. Confounding is especially problematic in remote digital health studies where the…

LLM-based agents have demonstrated strong potential for autonomous machine learning, yet their applicability to health data remains limited. Existing systems often struggle to generalize across heterogeneous health data modalities, rely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Tong Xia , Weibin Li , Gang Liu , Yong Li

Digital Behavior Change Interventions (DBCIs) are supporting development of new health behaviors. Evaluating their effectiveness is crucial for their improvement and understanding of success factors. However, comprehensive guidance for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Aneta Lisowska , Szymon Wilk , Laura Locati , Mimma Rizzo , Lucia Sacchi , Silvana Quaglini , Matteo Terzaghi , Valentina Tibollo , Mor Peleg

The ubiquity of smartphone usage in many people's lives make it a rich source of information about a person's mental and cognitive state. In this work we analyze 12 weeks of phone usage data from 113 older adults, 31 with diagnosed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Jonas Rauber , Emily B. Fox , Leon A. Gatys

Advances in mobile computing have paved the way for the development of several health applications using smartphone as a platform for data acquisition, analysis and presentation. Such areas where mhealth systems have been extensively…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Chinazunwa Uwaoma , Gunjan Mansingh

Students' mental well-being is vital for academic success, with activities such as studying, socializing, and sleeping playing a role. Current mobile sensing data highlight this intricate link using statistical and machine learning…

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The integration of mobile health (mHealth) devices into behavioral health research has fundamentally changed the way researchers and interventionalists are able to collect data as well as deploy and evaluate intervention strategies. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-17 Matthew D. Koslovsky , Emily T. Hebert , Michael S. Businelle , Marina Vannucci

Despite the significance of user engagement for efficacy of mobile health (mHealth) in the Global South, many such interventions do not include user-engaging attributes. This is because socio-technical aspects are frequently not considered…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Tochukwu Ikwunne , Lucy Hederman , P. J. Wall

Recommender Systems have not been explored to a great extent for improving health and subjective wellbeing. Recent advances in mobile technologies and user modelling present the opportunity for delivering such systems, however the key issue…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mohammed Khwaja , Miquel Ferrer , Jesus Omana Iglesias , A. Aldo Faisal , Aleksandar Matic

Timely decision making is critical to the effectiveness of mobile health (mHealth) interventions. At predefined timepoints called "decision points," intelligent mHealth systems such as just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) estimate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Asim H. Gazi , Bhanu Teja Gullapalli , Daiqi Gao , Benjamin M. Marlin , Vivek Shetty , Susan A. Murphy

Our goal is to extract useful knowledge from demonstrations of behavior in sequential decision-making problems. Although it is well-known that humans commonly engage in risk-sensitive behaviors in the presence of stochasticity, most Inverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Filippo Lazzati , Alberto Maria Metelli

Problematic smartphone use negatively affects physical and mental health. Despite the wide range of prior research, existing persuasive techniques are not flexible enough to provide dynamic persuasion content based on users' physical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Ruolan Wu , Chun Yu , Xiaole Pan , Yujia Liu , Ningning Zhang , Yue Fu , Yuhan Wang , Zhi Zheng , Li Chen , Qiaolei Jiang , Xuhai Xu , Yuanchun Shi

Mobile health (mHealth) leverages digital technologies, such as mobile phones, to capture objective, frequent, and real-world digital phenotypes from individuals, enabling the delivery of tailored interventions to accommodate substantial…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-24 Xingche Guo , Zexi Cai , Yuanjia Wang , Donglin Zeng