Publications by Theme

Smartphone-based Software as a Medical Device

VibroBP: An Oscillometric Smartphone Blood Pressure App
Colin Barry, Tatsuo Kumamoto, Amparo Averbuj, Edward Jay Wang
Ubicomp Demo 2024

Augmenting Telepostpartum Care With Vision-Based Detection of Breastfeeding-Related Conditions: Algorithm Development and Validation
Jessica De Souza, Varun Kumar Viswanath, Jessica Maria Echterhoff, Kristina Chamberlain, Edward Jay Wang
JMIR AI 2024

A Calibration Method for Smartphone Camera Photophlethysmography
Yinan Xuan, Colin Barry, Nick Antipa and Edward Jay Wang
Frontiers in Digital Health 2023

Smartphone camera oximetry in an induced hypoxemia study
Jason S Hoffman, Varun K Viswanath, Caiwei Tian, Xinyi Ding, Matthew J Thompson, Eric C Larson, Shwetak N Patel, Edward J Wang
npj Digital Medicine 2022

At-Home Pupillometry using Smartphone Facial Identification Cameras 
Colin Barry, Jessica De Souza, Yinan Xuan, Jason Holden, Eric Granholm, Edward Jay Wang
CHI 22 Best Paper Runner Up

Seismo: Blood Pressure Monitoring using Built-in Smartphone Accelerometer and Camera.
Edward J. Wang, Junyi Zhu, Mohit Jain, Tien-Jui Lee, Elliot Saba, Lama Nachman, and Shwetak Patel.
CHI '18 | PDF
Best Paper Honorable Mention (Top 5%)

Noninvasive Hemoglobin Measurement using Unmodified Smartphone Camera and White Flash
Edward J. Wang, William Li, Junyi Zhu, Rajneil Rana and Shwetak N. Patel
EMBC 2017 | PDF

HemaApp: Noninvasive Blood Screening of Hemoglobin using Smartphone Cameras.
Edward J. Wang, William Li, Doug Hawkins, Terry Gernsheimer, Colette Norby-Slycord, and Shwetak N. Patel.
Ubicomp '16 | PDF
Best Paper Award (Top 1%)

 

Low-Cost Health Monitoring

Development of a One Dollar Blood Pressure Monitor
Yinan Xuan, Ava J. Fascetti, Colin Barry, Edward Jay Wang
Ubicomp Poster 2024

Postable Spirometry: User-Assembled Vortex Whistle Spirometer
Ava Fascetti, Aatash Pestonjamasp, Colin Barry, Edward Jay Wang
EMBC 2024

Ultra-low-cost mechanical smartphone attachment for no-calibration blood pressure measurement 
Yinan Xuan, Colin Barry, Jessica De Souza, Jessica H Wen, Nick Antipa, Alison A Moore, Edward J Wang
Scientific Reports 2023 Journal Top 100

A Smartphone-based System for Assessing Intraocular Pressure
Alex Mariakakis, Edward J. Wang, Shwetak Patel and Joanne C. Wen
EMBC 2016 | PDF

 

AI/ML for Health Data

Five million nights: temporal dynamics in human sleep phenotypes
Varun K. Viswanath, Wendy Hartogenesis, Stephan Dilchert, Leena Pandya, Frederick M. Hecht, Ashley E. Mason, Edward Jay Wang & Benjamin L. Smarr
npj Digital Medicine 2024

Detecting Periodic Biases in Wearable-Based Illness Detection Models
Amit Klein, Varun Kumar Viswanath, Benjamin Smarr, Edward Jay Wang
ICLR 2023 Workshop on Time Series Representation Learning for Health

 

Novel Sensing & Wearable Devices

Neuromorphic High-Frequency 3D Dancing Pose Estimation in Dynamic Environment
Zhongyang Zhang, Kaidong Chai, Haowen Yu, Ramzi Majaj, Francesca Walsh, Edward Wang, Upal Mahbub, Hava Siegelmann, Donghyun Kim, Tauhidur Rahman
Neurocomputing 2023

Multi-Channel Facial Photoplethysmography Sensing
Parker S Ruth, Jerry Cao, Millicent Li, Jacob E Sunshine, Edward J Wang, Shwetak N Patel
EMBC '20

CASPER: Capacitive Serendipitous Power Transfer for Through-Body Charging of Multiple Wearable Devices. 
Edward J. Wang, Manuja Sharma, Yiran Zhao, and Shwetak N. Patel. 
ISWC '18 | PDF

Glabella: Continuously Sensing Blood Pressure Behavior using an Unobtrusive Wearable Device.
Christian Holz and Edward J. Wang.
PACM on Interactive Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 1,3, Article 5 (September 2017) | PDF
Distinguished Paper Award

Carpacio: Repurposing Capacitive Sensors to Distinguish Driver and Passenger Touches on In-vehicle Screens
Edward J. Wang, Jake Garrison, Eric Whitmire, Mayank Goel, and Shwetak Patel
UIST '17 | PDF

MagnifiSense: Inferring Device Interaction using Wrist-worn Passive Magneto-inductive Sensors.
Edward J. Wang, Tien-Jui Lee, Alex Mariakakis, Mayank Goel, Sidhant Gupta, and Shwetak N. Patel
UbiComp '15 | PDF

Skin Drag Displays: Dragging a Physical Tactor across the User's Skin Produces a Stronger Tactile Stimulus than Vibrotactile.
Alexandra Ion, Edward J. Wang, and Patrick Baudisch.
CHI '15 | PDF

 

Design Considerations for Digital Health Solutions

Investigating interactive methods in remote chestfeeding support for lactation consulting professionals in Brazil
Jessica de Souza, Cinthia Calsinski, Kristina Chamberlain, Franceli Cibrian, Edward Jay Wang
Frontiers in Digital Health 2023

Opportunities in designing HCI tools for lactation consulting professionals
Jessica De Souza, Kristina Chamberlain, Sidhant Gupta, Yang Gao, Nabil Alshurafa, Edward Jay Wang
CHI EA ‘20

SIG: Towards More Personal Health Sensing
Junyi Zhu, Liang He, Jun Nishida, Hamid Ghaednia, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Jon E Froehlich, Edward Jay Wang, Stefanie Mueller
CHI ‘20 Special Interest Group (Organizer)

Tenets towards smartphone-based medical tricorders
Colin Barry, Tauhidur Rahman, Edward J Wang
Mobisys ‘21 DigiBiom Workshop (Organizer)

Challenges in Realizing Smartphone-Based Health Sensing 
Alex Mariakakis, Edward J. Wang, Shwetak Patel, Mayank Goel.  IEEE Pervasive Computing Volume: 18, Issue: 2, April-June 1 2019| PDF
Best Paper Runner Up

Design Considerations for Leveraging Over-familiar Items for Elderly Health Monitors
Edward Wang, Samantha Ipser, Patrick Little, Noah Duncan, Benjamin Liu, Shinsaku Nakamura.
HCII'13 | PDF

 

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