Publications

Final report

The long-term objective of the project, "Improving Health and Well-Being with Personalized, Pervasive Technology," was to develop pervasive systems capable of monitoring language, activity, and the physical state of users; modeling the user’s cognitive and emotional state to identify needs for intervention; and intervening through language-based conversation and/or calming physical responses.

Read the final report (PDF)

Relevant research publications

  1. Dahunsi, B., Compton, C., Woelfle, H., Subash, N., Pettys-Baker, R., Priebe, M., and Holschuh, B. “Dynamic, Discreet, Robotic Compression Garment for Real-Time Stress Assessment and Intervention”, submitted to the 2021 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) Design Exhibition, June 2021.
  2. Granberry, R., Compton, C., Woelfle, H., Barry, J., and Holschuh, B. “Enhancing performance and reducing wearing variability for wearable technology system-body interfaces using shape memory materials."  IOP Flexible and Printed Electronics Special Issue on E-Textiles.
  3. Foo, Esther W., Lucy E. Dunne, and Brad Holschuh. "User Expectations and Mental Models for Communicating Emotions through Compressive & Warm Affective Garment Actuation." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive,Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 5.1 (2021): 1-25
  4. Raymond Finzel, Esha Singh, Martin Michalowski, Maria Gini and Serguei Pakhomov.  "Everyday Living Artificial Intelligence Hub." 2nd Workshop on Data Science with Human-in-the-loop: Language Advances (DaSH-LA) at NAACL 2021. 
  5. Shreya Datar, Libby Ferland, Esther W Foo, Michael Kotlyar, Brad Holschuh, Maria Gini, Martin Michalowski and Serguei Pakhomov. "Measuring Physiological Markers of Stress During Conversational Agent Interactions." 5th International Workshop on Health Intelligence (W3PHIAI-21) at AAAI 2021.
  6. Foo, E., Baker, J., Compton, C., & Holschuh, B. (2020, April). "Soft Robotic Compression Garment to Assist Novice Meditators." In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing  Systems,  (pp.1-8).
  7. Libby Ferland. "Enhancing User Modeling in Conversational Agents for Improved Personalization in Elder Support Applications." In Doctoral Consortium, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2020).
  8. Libby Ferland and Wilma Koutstaal. How's your day look? the (un)expected sociolinguistic effects of user modeling in a conversational agent. In CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 
  9. Libby Ferland, Jude Sauve, Michael Lucke, Runpeng Nie, Malik Khadar, Serguei Pakhomov, and Maria Gini. Tell Me About Your Day: Designing a Conversational Agent for Time and Stress Management. In International Workshop on Health Intelligence (W3PHIAI) at AAAI 2020, 2020. 
  10. Esther Foo, Walter Lee, Crystal Compton, Simon Ozbek, Brad Holschuh, "User Experiences of garment-based dynamic compression for novel haptic applications", International Symposium on Wearable Computing, September 2019, pp 54-59.
  11. Esther Foo, Walter Lee, Simon Ozbek, Crystal Compton, Brad Holschuh, "Iterative design and development of remotely-controllable dynamic compression garnment for novel haptic experiences", International Symposium on Wearable Computing, September 2019, pp 267-273.
  12. Libby Ferland, Thomas Huffstutler, Jacob Rice, Joan Zheng, Shi Ni, and Maria Gini. Evaluating Older Users' Experiences with Commercial Dialogue Systems: Implications for Future Design and Development. In Workshop DEEP DIAL at AAAI, 2019. 
  13. Joan Zheng, Raymond Finzel, Serguei Pakhomov, and Maria Gini. Spoken Dialogue Systems for Medication Management. In Workshop W3PHIAI at AAAI, 2019. 
  14. Libby Ferland, Ziwei Li, Shridhar Sukhani, Joan Zheng, Luyang Zhao, and Maria Gini. Assistive AI for Coping with Memory Loss. In Workshop on AI and Health, AAAI 2018, 2018.

Videos

Posters

  • Libby Ferland, Wilma Koutstaal (2020) "A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Interactions with an Intelligent Digital Assistant," presented at the Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota, Spring Research Day, June 12, 2020.
  • Arun, V., Huffstutler, T., Finzel, R., Pakhomov, S., Gini, M. (2019) “Artificial Emotional Intelligence: Dialogue Systems in Medicine," presented at the University of Minnesota Undergraduate Research Symposium. April 25, 2019, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Annika Sougstad (2019) "Physiological Data Analysis for Stress Prediction and Intervention", presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2019.

Talks

In addition to the professional and community visibility afforded by lab tours, we have given public talks with coverage of the Grand Challenges Investigation:

  1. Holschuh, B. “Wearable Technology using Active Materials”, invited talk to at the “Wearable Technology, Materials and Applications II”, Workshop at the 2019 UMN Biomaterials and Pharmaceutical Materials (BPM) Industrial Partners for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering (IPRIME) Annual Meeting, May 29 2019.
  2. Holschuh, B. “Soft-Robotic Textiles using Integrated Active Materials”, invited talk at the 2019 Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) Smart Fabrics Virtual Summit, May 15, 2019.
  3. Holschuh, B. “Garment-based Wearable Technology: Principles, Applications and Challenges”, invited talk given (virtually) at the International Conference of Clothing and Textiles 2020, Busan City, Republic of Korea, May 2020.
  4. Gini, M. “Will a chatbot be our future companion?”, talk to the American Association of University Women, Minneapolis branch, December 2020.