Workshop at the International Society for Quality of Life Research Conference 2024. In Cologne, Germany
Abstract: Wearable devices are a useful and widely used source of continuous and temporal dependant data. In contrast to the traditional clinical environment, these devices allow time series data collection in an individual’s daily living environ- ment. However, missing data can occur while using them. Many techniques have been applied to solve these data gaps; nonetheless, missing time series data poses extra challenges, such as maintaining the temporal dependency. In this article, we addressed the forecast of sleep trackers data (sleeping heart rate (HR) and time asleep) for 2 main reasons: (1) to design models capable of accurately forecasting missing data from those devices, and (2) to apply those models to empower sleep interventions that may increase its quality, by forecasting future sleep events. We collected wearables data over 290 days (per individual) from 12 participants using a smartwatch and made this dataset publicly available. We then explored several hyperparameters of 2 Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU). We further elaborated and compared the performance of 3 approaches to training those RNNs. Although similar performance, slightly more accurate results were obtained after training a GRU network on an entire population’s dataset, which was able to forecast the average, minimum, and maximum sleeping HR with a root-mean-squared error (RMSE) of 4.4 (± 1.4), 4.9 (± 2.6), and 12.1 (± 4.0) beats per minute, respectively. However, the total time asleep was impossible to forecast with low error.
Poster at the Geneva Aging Series XII, Morges, Switzerland, September 2024.
O investigador fundanense que tenta antecipar-se à Alzheimer (Interview with Jornal do Fundão, in Portuguese)
Abstract: Behaviour change, crucial in health interventions, demands an understanding of the end user’s psychological, social, and…
Abstract: User Persona is a structured Interaction Design method for representing a group of users as conceptual…
Poster at the Alzheimer’s Disease International Conference 2024, Krakow, Poland, April 2024.
Detetar Alzheimer vinte anos antes dos primeiros sinais (Interview with SIC and SIC Notícias, in Portuguese)
Talk as a Takeda speaker at the HemeXChange event hosted by Takeda Oncology. At Convento São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal.
Talk in Portuguese at the kick-off of the DIH 4 Global Automotive project. At Ceiia, Matosinhos, Portugal.