Summary of Integrating Wearable Sensor Data and Self-reported Diaries For Personalized Affect Forecasting, by Zhongqi Yang et al.
Integrating Wearable Sensor Data and Self-reported Diaries for Personalized Affect Forecasting
by Zhongqi Yang, Yuning Wang, Ken S. Yamashita, Maryam Sabah, Elahe Khatibi, Iman Azimi, Nikil Dutt, Jessica L. Borelli, Amir M. Rahmani
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a multimodal deep learning model for predicting emotional states, such as affect status forecasting. This model combines a transformer encoder with a pre-trained language model to analyze both objective metrics and self-reported diaries. The authors conduct a longitudinal study involving college students, monitoring their physiological, environmental, sleep, metabolic, physical activity parameters, and textual diaries over a year. They achieve predictive accuracy of 82.50% for positive affect and 82.76% for negative affect, a full week in advance. This model’s explainability is also demonstrated. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper tries to predict people’s emotions before they happen. Right now, most research uses data from wearable devices like smartwatches or smartphones to do this. But this study combines that data with what people write down in their journals or diaries. They use a special kind of computer program called a deep learning model that can understand both the device data and the diary text. The researchers tested this model on college students over a year, gathering lots of information about their daily habits, feelings, and thoughts. They found that their model could predict people’s emotions 82% of the time, a whole week in advance! This is important because it could help us understand people’s emotions better and maybe even prevent problems like depression or anxiety. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Deep learning * Encoder * Language model * Transformer
