Search Results for author: Laura E. Barnes

Found 24 papers, 9 papers with code

A Shape-Based Functional Index for Objective Assessment of Pediatric Motor Function

no code implementations2 Jan 2025 Shashwat Kumar, Arafat Rahman, Robert Gutierrez, Sarah Livermon, Allison N. McCrady, Silvia Blemker, Rebecca Scharf, Anuj Srivastava, Laura E. Barnes

We introduce a novel method using wearable sensors to objectively assess motor function during daily activities in 19 patients with DMD, 9 with SMA, and 13 age-matched controls.

PALLM: Evaluating and Enhancing PALLiative Care Conversations with Large Language Models

1 code implementation23 Sep 2024 Zhiyuan Wang, Fangxu Yuan, Virginia LeBaron, Tabor Flickinger, Laura E. Barnes

Emerging large language models (LLMs) offer a new approach to assessing complex communication metrics, with the potential to advance the field through integration into passive sensing and just-in-time intervention systems.

In-Context Learning

AudioInsight: Detecting Social Contexts Relevant to Social Anxiety from Speech

no code implementations19 Jul 2024 Varun Reddy, Zhiyuan Wang, Emma Toner, Max Larrazabal, Mehdi Boukhechba, Bethany A. Teachman, Laura E. Barnes

While previous research has found that the presence of a social interaction can be detected from ambient audio, the nuances within social contexts, which influence how anxiety provoking interactions are, remain largely unexplored.

Converging Paradigms: The Synergy of Symbolic and Connectionist AI in LLM-Empowered Autonomous Agents

no code implementations11 Jul 2024 Haoyi Xiong, Zhiyuan Wang, Xuhong LI, Jiang Bian, Zeke Xie, Shahid Mumtaz, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Laura E. Barnes

This article explores the convergence of connectionist and symbolic artificial intelligence (AI), from historical debates to contemporary advancements.

Decision Making Knowledge Graphs

Personalized State Anxiety Detection: An Empirical Study with Linguistic Biomarkers and A Machine Learning Pipeline

no code implementations19 Apr 2023 Zhiyuan Wang, Mingyue Tang, Maria A. Larrazabal, Emma R. Toner, Mark Rucker, Congyu Wu, Bethany A. Teachman, Mehdi Boukhechba, Laura E. Barnes

To address this concern, in Study 1, we collected linguistic data from N=35 high socially anxious participants in a variety of social contexts, finding that digital linguistic biomarkers significantly differ between evaluative vs. non-evaluative social contexts and between individuals having different trait psychological symptoms, suggesting the likely importance of personalized approaches to detect state anxiety.

Anxiety Detection

Graph Neural Networks in IoT: A Survey

1 code implementation29 Mar 2022 Guimin Dong, Mingyue Tang, Zhiyuan Wang, Jiechao Gao, Sikun Guo, Lihua Cai, Robert Gutierrez, Bradford Campbell, Laura E. Barnes, Mehdi Boukhechba

The Internet of Things (IoT) boom has revolutionized almost every corner of people's daily lives: healthcare, home, transportation, manufacturing, supply chain, and so on.

Autonomous Vehicles Survey

Evaluation of mathematical questioning strategies using data collected through weak supervision

no code implementations2 Dec 2021 Debajyoti Datta, Maria Phillips, James P Bywater, Jennifer Chiu, Ginger S. Watson, Laura E. Barnes, Donald E Brown

Using recent advances in uncertainty quantification, we evaluated our conversational agent for usability and analyzed the practicality of incorporating a human-in-the-loop approach for data collection and system evaluation for a mathematical questioning scenario.

Uncertainty Quantification

From Personalized Medicine to Population Health: A Survey of mHealth Sensing Techniques

no code implementations2 Jul 2021 Zhiyuan Wang, Haoyi Xiong, Jie Zhang, Sijia Yang, Mehdi Boukhechba, Laura E. Barnes, Daqing Zhang, Dejing Dou

Mobile Sensing Apps have been widely used as a practical approach to collect behavioral and health-related information from individuals and provide timely intervention to promote health and well-beings, such as mental health and chronic cares.

Offline Contextual Multi-armed Bandits for Mobile Health Interventions: A Case Study on Emotion Regulation

no code implementations21 Aug 2020 Mawulolo K. Ameko, Miranda L. Beltzer, Lihua Cai, Mehdi Boukhechba, Bethany A. Teachman, Laura E. Barnes

Our experimentation shows that the proposed doubly robust offline learning algorithms performed significantly better than baseline approaches, suggesting that this type of recommender algorithm could improve emotion regulation.

Management Multi-Armed Bandits +1

Gender Detection on Social Networks using Ensemble Deep Learning

no code implementations13 Apr 2020 Kamran Kowsari, Mojtaba Heidarysafa, Tolu Odukoya, Philip Potter, Laura E. Barnes, Donald E. Brown

Analyzing the ever-increasing volume of posts on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter requires improved information processing methods for profiling authorship.

Classification Deep Learning +2

Enabling Smartphone-based Estimation of Heart Rate

no code implementations18 Dec 2019 Nutta Homdee, Mehdi Boukhechba, Yixue W. Feng, Natalie Kramer, John Lach, Laura E. Barnes

The promising results provide preliminary evidence of the feasibility of combining smartphone sensor data with wearable sensor data for continuous heart rate monitoring.

Analysis of Railway Accidents' Narratives Using Deep Learning

1 code implementation17 Oct 2018 Mojtaba Heidarysafa, Kamran Kowsari, Laura E. Barnes, Donald E. Brown

These reports contain a variety of fixed field entries including primary cause of the accidents (a coded variable with 389 values) as well as a narrative field which is a short text description of the accident.

Deep Learning Word Embeddings

Patient2Vec: A Personalized Interpretable Deep Representation of the Longitudinal Electronic Health Record

4 code implementations10 Oct 2018 Jinghe Zhang, Kamran Kowsari, James H. Harrison, Jennifer M. Lobo, Laura E. Barnes

The wide implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems facilitates the collection of large-scale health data from real clinical settings.

Feature Importance

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