Journals and Conference Publications

ActiSight: Wearer Foreground Extraction Using a Practical RGB-Thermal Wearable

Rawan Alharbi, Sougata Sen, Ada Ng, Nabil Alshurafa, Josiah Hester
IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
(PerCom'22)

HeatSight: Wearable Low-Power Omni Thermal Sensing

Rawan Alharbi, Chunlin Feng, Sougata Sen, Jayalakshmi Jain, Josiah Hester, Nabil Alshurafa
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
(UbiComp'21)

To Mask or Not to Mask? Balancing Privacy with Visual Confirmation Utility in Activity-Oriented Wearable Cameras

Rawan Alharbi, Mariam Tolba, Lucia C Petito, Josiah Hester, Nabil Alshurafa
Proceedings of the ACM on interactive, mobile, wearable and ubiquitous technologies
(UbiComp'19)

Is More Always Better? Discovering Incentivized mHealth Intervention Engagement Related to Health Behavior Trends

Nabil Alshurafa, Jayalakshmi Jain, Rawan Alharbi, Gleb Iakovlev, Bonnie Spring, Angela Pfammatter
Proceedings of the ACM on interactive, mobile, wearable and ubiquitous technologies
(UbiComp'18)

I can't be myself: effects of wearable cameras on the capture of authentic behavior in the wild

Rawan Alharbi, Tammy Stump, Nilofar Vafaie, Angela Pfammatter, Bonnie Spring, Nabil Alshurafa
Proceedings of the ACM on interactive, mobile, wearable and ubiquitous technologies
(UbiComp'18)

Food watch: detecting and characterizing eating episodes through feeding gestures

Shibo Zhang, Rawan Alharbi, William Stogin, Mohamad Pourhomayun, Bonnie Spring, Nabil Alshurafa
Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks
(BodyNet'16)

Workshop Papers and Extended Abstracts

"I Am Not an Engineer": Understanding How Clinicians Design & Alter Assistive Technology

Rahaf Alharbi, Ada Ng, Rawan Alharbi, Josiah Hester
Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(CHI'20)

Willsense: adherence barriers for passive sensing systems that track eating behavior

Rawan Alharbi, Angela Pfammatter, Bonnie Spring, Nabil Alshurafa
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(CHI'17)

When generalized eating detection machine learning models fail in the field

Shibo Zhang, Rawan Alharbi, Matthew Nicholson, Nabil Alshurafa
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
(UbiComp'17)

Investigating barriers and facilitators to wearable adherence in fine-grained eating detection

Rawan Alharbi, Nilofar Vafaie, Kitty Liu, Kevin Moran, Gwendolyn Ledford, Angela Pfammatter, Bonnie Spring, Nabil Alshurafa
2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
(PerCom'17)

Intuito: Opportunistic Tangible Programming by Demonstration for Physical Components

Rawan Alharbi, Nabil Alshurafa, Michael Horn
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
(CHI'17)

Extended Abstracts in Medicine

MEASURING SMOKING TOPOGRAPHY IN NATURAL SETTINGS USING NON-CONTACT PASSIVE WEARABLE SENSORS

Rawan Alharbi, Bonnie Spring, Nabil Alshurafa
ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
(SBM'20)

AUGMENTING SELF-REPORTS WITH WEARABLE VIDEO CAMERA DATA TO IMPROVE DIET-RECALL

Erin R Bruns, Annie W Lin, Rawan Alharbi, Sougata Sen, Josiah Hester, Nabil Alshurafa
ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
(SBM'20)

FROM SENSING TO THEORY: IMPLICATIONS OF CAPTURING NATURALLY OCCURRING BEHAVIORS IN THE WILD

Angela F Pfammatter, Rawan Alharbi, Nabil Alshurafa, Bonnie Spring
ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
(SBM'18)

DETECTING REAL TIME EPISODIC OVEREATING FOR JUST IN TIME INTERVENTIONS

Nabil Alshurafa, Rawan Alharbi, Angela F Pfammatter, Bonnie Spring
ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
(SBM'18)

FROM LAB TO FIELD: EATING DETECTION MACHINE LEARNING MODELS, PRIVACY, STIGMA AND USER-COMFORT OF WEARABLES

Nabil Alshurafa, Rawan Alharbi
ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
(SBM'17)

Machine learning algorithms applied to detect feeding gestures

Shibo Zhang, Rawan Alharbi, William Stogin, Kevin Moran, Angela F Pfammatter, Bonnie Spring, Nabil Alshurafa
The Obesity Society
(Obesity'16)