Text Devices to Measure Behavior: Overview of the Field

Nabil Alshurafa, Ph.D.

Alshurafa is an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California Los Angeles. He currently directs the NIH- and NSF-funded HABits Lab, which aims to bridge computer science and behavioral science research. His current research seeks to enable passive assessment of lifestyle habits with the goal of designing technology-supported lifestyle treatments for obesity, smoking cessation, and mental health. His long-term goal is to design mobile health systems that combine machine learning and wearable sensors to understand human behaviors in their natural setting, as well as psychological state and environmental context, with the ultimate goal of designing interventions that help manage symptoms, prevent illness, and improve health and well-being.

My web link is thehabitslab.com

Text Devices to Measure Behavior: Overview of the Field

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