Mobile health sensing, AI, and human-centered care

COMS6998: Mobile Health: Sensing, AI, and Human-Centered Design

Readings

The reading list is tentative and subject to change.

If you would like to present a paper that is not listed here, it should be a high-quality paper relevant to mobile health and published in relevant top-tier venues (e.g., MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, IMWUT/UbiComp, UIST, CHI, Nature in Medicine).

Physical Activity & Mobility

  • ZG26 Exploring the Feasibility of Full-Body Muscle Activation Sensing with Insole Pressure Sensors. MobiCom 2026.
  • WLM+25 BandEI: A Flexible Electrical Impedance Sensing Bandage for Deep Muscles and Tendons. UIST 2025.

Cardiovascular Health

  • FSZ+26 Unlocking Practical Cardiac Monitoring Capabilities on True Wireless Stereo Earbuds. MobiCom 2026.
  • PEM+26 MRI-Grade Photoplethysmography Using Bundled Fiber Optics for Contactless Heart Rate Monitoring and Real-Time Gating. SenSys 2026.
  • XML+25 ECG Necklace: Low-power Wireless Necklace for Continuous ECG Monitoring. CHI 2025.

Hemodynamic Health

  • ZZP+26 VYRE: Low-Burden and Robust Oscillometric Ring-Based System for Frequent Blood Pressure Monitoring. SenSys 2026.
  • CXG+26 Phonotonos: Through-Skin Ultrasonic Blood Flow Sensing Using Smartphones. MobiSys 2026 Emerging Ideas.

Respiratory Health

  • DLC+26 From a Point to Hundreds: Embracing LiDAR on Commodity Smartphones for Fine-Grained Pulmonary Function Sensing. SenSys 2026.

Sleep & Circadian Health

  • SSW+26 From Sleep Scores to Self-Knowledge: Older Adults' Experiences with Tracking Sleep Using the Oura Ring. CHI 2026.
  • SCL+25 My Pillow Knows My Sleep: Sleep Monitoring with Computational Fabrics in the Pillowcase. IMWUT 2025.

Metabolic & Nutritional Health

  • PWL+25 CGMM: Non-Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Wearables Using Metasurfaces. MobiCom 2025.
  • TLB+26 NutriEar: Robust Nutrition-Aware Food Classification from In-Ear Acoustic Signals. SenSys 2026.
  • NNA+26 Towards Practical Metabolic Sensing with Wearable TEGs. MobiSys 2026 Emerging Ideas.

Brain, Behavioral & Cognitive Health

  • HZW+25 mmTremor: Practical Tremor Monitoring for Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor in Daily Life. MobiCom 2025.
  • ZXM+26 MIND: Empowering Mental Health Clinicians with Multimodal Data Insights through a Narrative Dashboard. CHI 2026.
  • KZI+25 Advancing Wearable BCI: Headphone EEG for Cognitive Load Detection in Lab and Field. IMWUT 2025.
  • MCQ26 Wellness Watch or Worry Watch? Negative Psychological Impacts of Wearable Devices. IMWUT 2026.
  • LPK+26 Leveraging Smartphone Human Interaction Routine Behavior Task Mining and Modeling for Daily Stress Monitoring. IMWUT 2026.

Maternal, Infant & Family Health

  • GMM+25 DopFone: Doppler-Based Fetal Heart Rate Estimation Using Commodity Smartphones. IMWUT 2025.
  • BH26 What to Expect When You're Self-Tracking: Lived Experiences of Expectant Individuals and Perspectives of Care Providers on Pregnancy Data Practices. CHI 2026.

AI for Mobile Health

  • JGT+26 Bloom: Designing for LLM-Augmented Behavior Change Interactions. CHI 2026. Best Paper Award.
  • CMCC26 WristSense: Sensing Hidden Wrist Strain in Routine Activities via Inertial Tokenization and LLM-Based Feedback. SenSys 2026.
  • ZZP+26 EarPCG: Recovering Heart Sounds from in-Ear Audio via Physics-Informed Neural Network. SenSys 2026.

Security, Privacy, Fairness, and Future Directions

  • ALF+26 My Body, Their Business: User Perspectives on Commercial Data Practices in FemTech mHealth Apps. CHI 2026.
  • KZA+26 Privacy and Safety Experiences and Concerns of U.S. Women Using Generative AI for Seeking Sexual and Reproductive Health Information. CHI 2026.
Computer Science at Columbia University